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Objective-C CGrect as constant

me — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 18:08:06 +0000

in where-ever.h
extern const CGRect kMY_RECT;

in where-ever.m
const CGRect kMY_RECT = { { 0.0f, 39.0f }, { 768.0f, 432.0f } };

use
somethingWithA.frame = kMY_RECT;

Create some file and directory if they don’t exist

me — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 20:06:09 +0000

BOOL didItWork = [self createDirAndFile:@"index.html" inDir:@"somedirectory"];
NSLog(@”WAS FILE CREATED? %i”, didItWork);

// methods used

-(BOOL)createDirAndFile:(NSString*)fileName inDir:(NSString*)dir {

NSString *str = @”whatever needs to be in the file when created”;
NSData *data=[str dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];

NSFileManager *filemgr = [NSFileManager defaultManager];

NSString *documentsDirectoryPath = [NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSDocumentDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, YES) objectAtIndex:0];
NSLog(@” documentsDirectoryPath = %@”, documentsDirectoryPath);

NSString *targetDir = [documentsDirectoryPath stringByAppendingPathComponent:dir];
NSLog(@” targetDir = %@”, targetDir);

NSString *targetFile = [targetDir stringByAppendingPathComponent:fileName];
NSLog(@” targetFile = %@”, targetFile);

BOOL isDir;

if (![filemgr fileExistsAtPath:targetDir isDirectory:&isDir]) {

NSLog(@”Directory did not exist so create it”);
[filemgr createDirectoryAtPath:targetDir withIntermediateDirectories:NO attributes:nil error:nil];

NSLog(@”If the target directory did not exist the file we are creating certainly did not exist so create it”);
return [self createMyFile:targetFile contents:data];

} else {

return [self createMyFile:targetFile contents:data];

}

-(BOOL) createMyFile:(NSString*)desiredFile contents:(NSData*)fileContents {

if ( ![[NSFileManager defaultManager] fileExistsAtPath:desiredFile] ) {

[[NSFileManager defaultManager] createFileAtPath:desiredFile contents:fileContents attributes:nil];
return YES;

}

return NO;

}

iOS/Objective-C Dump NSUserDefaults

me — Tue, 10 May 2011 21:41:33 +0000

NSLog(@”NSUserDefaults dump: %@”, [[NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults] dictionaryRepresentation]);

So what’s the latest

me — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 07:27:09 +0000

Objective-c simple animation

me — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 19:06:19 +0000

NSArray * imageArray = [[[NSArray alloc] initWithObjects: [UIImage imageNamed:@"fr01.png"], [UIImage imageNamed:@"fr02.png"], [UIImage imageNamed:@"fr03.png"], [UIImage imageNamed:@"fr04.png"], [UIImage imageNamed:@"fr05.png"], nil] autorelease];


	UIImageView * waveAnime = [[[UIImageView alloc] initWithFrame: CGRectMake(0, 125, 150, 75)] autorelease];
	waveAnime.animationImages = imageArray;

	waveAnime.animationDuration = 2.0;

	waveAnime.contentMode = UIViewContentModeBottomLeft;
	[self.view addSubview:waveAnime];

[waveAnime startAnimating];

The application was not install on iphone because its resources have been modified

me — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 04:31:52 +0000

Add yet another possible solution for the error: The application was not install on iphone because its resources have been modified I was working off a thumb drive, after trying alot of other solutions I simply removed the project directory off the thumb drive and the problem went away. This probably isn’t your problem but [...]

Stop blog spam (close comment_status)

me — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 05:21:25 +0000

UPDATE `your_data_base`.`wp_posts` SET `comment_status` = ‘closed’, `ping_status` = ‘closed’ WHERE `wp_posts`.`comment_status` LIKE ‘open’

Overkill yeah… but good grief I akismet is spassing out and I just don’t have time to mess with it.

rotate laptop screen

me — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 02:42:13 +0000

With “xrandr -o right” you can rotate the screen and hold the laptop like a book. On my laptop my thumb can sit nicely on the up/down arrows for page turning and it feels much more natural for prolonged periods of reading. Just run “xrand -o normal” to get back to the normal screen orientation. [...]

Remove the dotted line Firefox puts around links

me — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 06:02:18 +0000

:focus {
-moz-outline-style: none;
}

and/or
a {
outline: none;
}

Mysql Dump from shell

me — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 04:23:40 +0000

I wouldn’t deploy this as is but here is a good starting point. Tweek to fit and cron.
#!/bin/bash


### MySQL Server Login Info ###

MUSER="USER"

MPASS="PASSWORD"

MHOST="localhost"

MYSQL="$(which mysql)"

MYSQLDUMP="$(which mysqldump)"
BAK="./dumps"

GZIP="$(which gzip)"
NOW=$(date +"%Y-%m-%d")
[ ! -d $BAK ] && mkdir -p $BAK/$NOW || /bin/rm -f $BAK/*
DBS="$($MYSQL -u $MUSER -h $MHOST -p$MPASS -Bse 'show databases')"
for db in $DBS

do
	FILE=$BAK/$NOW/$db.$NOW.gz

	$MYSQLDUMP -u $MUSER -h $MHOST -p$MPASS $db | $GZIP -9 > $FILE

done