Posts in category “Programming”:

Use Unicode Emoji as Image-Free Icons in iOS Web Apps

Posted on July 20, 2010
Filed under Programming, Scripts, iOS | 2 Comments

In version 2.2 of iOS — Apple’s “mobile” operating system used in the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad — support for Emoji was added. These small 12×12 pixel icons are meant to be used in text messaging in Japan but because they’re implemented simply as unicode symbols in the device they can be used as [...]

Getting a List of Installed Fonts with Flash and Javascript

Posted on July 13, 2010
Filed under ActionScript 3, Flex, Miscallaneous, Programming | 3 Comments

When implementing the feature in the icalBuddy examples page where the font used for the output examples could be changed interactively I needed to get a list of all the fonts installed on the current user’s computer. This blog post from 2006 explains how to do it, but it refers to the deprecated ActionScript 2 [...]

Trash files from the OS X command line

Posted on March 9, 2010
Filed under Featured, Mac, Programming | 3 Comments

I spend a lot of time in the Terminal on my computer — a lot of things are just better done with a command-line interface than in the GUI. When removing files via the command-line people usually just, well, remove them (with the rm command), but this means that they’ll be eschewing the Trash, one [...]

Print AppleScript files with color-coding in the Terminal

Posted on March 3, 2010
Filed under Mac, Programming, Scripts | 4 Comments

Even though I curse and hate its syntax, I have to admit that AppleScript certainly provides one of the nicest things OS X has to offer in comparison to other operating systems: almost-ubiquitous scripting of GUI applications (one could argue that this is not due to the AppleScript language itself, but the Open Scripting Architecture [...]

Quick Look Plugin/Generator for Image Folders

Posted on March 27, 2009
Filed under Mac, Programming | Leave a Comment

One of the things that I’ve always thought Windows XP did better than OS X is how it displays the thumbnails of contained images on the icons of folders that have image files inside them. I always felt this to be quite useful, but couldn’t think of any reasonable way to implement it on the [...]

fcshctl: the Flex Compiler Shell Controller

Posted on November 3, 2008
Filed under ActionScript 3, Flex, Programming, Scripts, jEdit | 16 Comments

Introduction Like I’ve mentioned before in this blog, I develop Flex applications using the Flex SDK and jEdit instead of Adobe’s Flex Builder IDE. This setup has worked very well for me but one annoying issue I’ve had to deal with because of this is the slow compilation speed: every time I make a small [...]

Saving and Accessing Version/Compilation Information with Flex Applications

Posted on September 29, 2008
Filed under ActionScript 3, Flex, Programming | 1 Comment

On several occasions while developing Flash applications I’ve run into problems with proxy/cache servers. The pattern is usually something like this: I notice a bug in an application that only occurs when running it on the server I debug the application, find the bug and issue a fix I deploy the new version that contains [...]

icalBuddy: Getting Events and Tasks from the OS X Calendar Store via the Command Line

Posted on June 20, 2008
Filed under Mac, Programming | 24 Comments

I’m a big fan of the “do not repeat yourself” principle, which, especially in the context of software, basically means that you should only have one place to change anything. Any highly volatile data that will be viewed from more than one location (or in more than one way) should only have one location and/or [...]

Mac OS X Mouse Wheel Support for ActionScript 3 Flash Applications (v.2+)

Posted on April 26, 2008
Filed under ActionScript 3, Featured, Flex, Mac, Programming | 73 Comments

So I’ve finally updated the solution I’ve made earlier for enabling Mac OS X mouse wheel support in Flex applications to a second version. I didn’t want to continue adding stuff into the original post, so I decided to write a separate post just for this new version. As you can see from the title, [...]

A “Go to Parent of Current Folder” Toolbar Button for Finder

Posted on January 10, 2008
Filed under Featured, Mac, Programming, Scripts | 6 Comments

Although the updated version introduced with Leopard significantly improves upon the one in Tiger, I still think Mac OS’s Finder is lacking in several departments. I Don’t feel “at home” with separate file managers (Path Finder or ForkLift, for example — even though I do own a license to the latter, I only use it [...]


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