Nick Dowell nickdowell

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nickdowell / gist:1885821

Created February 22, 2012 16:14

	- (NSURLRequest )connection:(NSURLConnection )connection willSendRequest:(NSURLRequest )request redirectResponse:(NSURLResponse )response
	{
	if (response != nil) {
	[[self client] URLProtocol:self wasRedirectedToRequest:request redirectResponse:response];
	}
	return request;
	}

nickdowell / gist:2236186

Last active October 2, 2015 11:28

GetPluginBundle()

	#include <CoreFoundation/CoreFoundation.h>

	#include <dlfcn.h>

	static CFBundleRef GetPluginBundle()
	{
	static CFBundleRef bundle;
	if (bundle) {
	return bundle;
	}

nickdowell / gist:4492320

Created January 9, 2013 11:01

parsing query parameters from an NSURL

	NSMutableDictionary *queryParameters = [NSMutableDictionary dictionary];
	for (NSString *string in [[URL query] componentsSeparatedByString:@"&"]) {
	NSArray *array = [string componentsSeparatedByString:@"="];
	if ([array count] == 2)
	[queryParameters setObject:[array objectAtIndex:1] forKey:[array objectAtIndex:0]];
	}

nickdowell / coremidi_virtual_source.c

Created January 23, 2013 19:56

	#include <assert.h>
	#include <CoreMIDI/CoreMIDI.h>

	char buffer[1024];

	MIDIClientRef client = 0;
	MIDIEndpointRef endpoint = 0;
	MIDIPacketList packetList = (void )buffer;
	MIDIPacket *packet = 0;
	MIDIPortRef port = 0;

nickdowell / gist:5336704

Created April 8, 2013 13:18

mkv to mp4 conversion (no transcoding) using ffmpeg

ffmpeg -loglevel verbose -i input.mkv -acodec copy -vcodec copy output.mp4

nickdowell / gist:5678403

Created May 30, 2013 14:44

bash aliases

alias bbc6music='open -a "QuickTime Player" $(curl -s http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/listen/live/r6_aaclca.pls | grep File1= | sed s/File1=//)'

nickdowell / UIViewRecurse.m

Last active December 24, 2015 09:59

	void UIViewRecurse(UIView view, void (^ apply)(UIView subview))
	{
	static void (^ recurse)(UIView subview, void (^ apply)(UIView subview)) = nil;
	if (recurse == nil)
	recurse = ^(UIView subview, void (^ apply)(UIView subview)){
	apply(subview);
	for (UIView *v in subview.subviews)
	recurse(v, apply);
	};
	recurse(view, apply);

nickdowell / update_loc_xibs.sh

Created April 25, 2014 12:52

	#!/bin/bash

	set -o errexit
	set -o pipefail

	langs=(de es fr pt)

	for path in en.lproj/*.xib; do
	git diff --quiet $path && git diff --cached --quiet $path \|\| {
	echo -n "updating localizations for $path"

nickdowell / ParseMobileProvision.m

Last active August 29, 2015 14:00

	NSData *data = [NSData dataWithContentsOfFile:[[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@"embedded" ofType:@"mobileprovision"]];
	const char ptr = [data bytes], start = NULL, *end = NULL;
	for (size_t i = 0; i < [data length] - 8; i++) {
	if (memcmp(ptr + i, "<plist", 6) == 0) {
	start = ptr + i;
	}
	if (memcmp(ptr + i, "</plist>", 8) == 0) {
	end = ptr + i + 8;
	}
	}

nickdowell / auto_examples

Last active August 29, 2015 14:01

automount configuration examples

	# /etc/auto_examples

	afp_vol -fstype=afp afp://user:password@server/afp_vol

	smb_vol -fstype=smbfs ://user:password@server/smb_vol

	#note: no password can be specified for NFS
	nfs_vol server:/nfs_vol