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richardbuckle / shut down core data.m

Created September 23, 2011 22:29

Shut down a Core Data store prior to deleting the underlying file

	- (void)closeDown {
	NSArray *stores = [self.persistentStoreCoordinator persistentStores];
	for (NSPersistentStore *store in stores) {
	DebugLogging(@"Closing Core Data store at %@", [store URL]);
	NSError *error = nil;
	if (![self.persistentStoreCoordinator removePersistentStore:store error:&error]) {
	DebugLogging(@"Unable to close Core Data store: error %@", [error localizedDescription]);
	}
	}
	}

richardbuckle / Nonlocalised string regex.txt

Last active September 27, 2015 16:28

VERY quick and dirty regex to hunt for string literals that may need to be localised

(?<!Path:|Key:|NSLocalizedString\(|NibName:|NibNamed:|imageNamed:|PathComponent:|xpathQuery:|initForModel:|initWithDomain:|predicateWithFormat:|setDateFormat:|fontWithName:|entities:|sortBy:|NSClassFromString\(|NSLog\(|DLog\(|ALog\(|DebugLogging\()\s*(?!@"%@"|@"%d")@".+"

richardbuckle / NoNSTableView tooltips

Created January 31, 2012 20:46

NSTableView delegate methods to prevent tooltips

	- (BOOL)tableView:(NSTableView)tableView shouldShowCellExpansionForTableColumn:(NSTableColumn)tableColumn row:(NSInteger)row
	{
	return NO; // no tool tips
	}

	- (NSString)tableView:(NSTableView)aTableView toolTipForCell:(NSCell)aCell rect:(NSRectPointer)rect tableColumn:(NSTableColumn)aTableColumn row:(NSInteger)row mouseLocation:(NSPoint)mouseLocation
	{
	return nil; // no tool tips
	}

richardbuckle / gist:6038567

Created July 19, 2013 11:43

Use a nil-targeted action to message a view controller higher up the responder chain without introducing coupling

	// in some parent view controller's header file
	- (IBAction)yourActionNameHere:(id)sender;

	// implementation does whatever you want

	// Now, from any call site, as long as you're on the main thread
	// just post an action to nil and it will be sent to the first responder,
	// then all the way up the responder chain until it finds your view controller

	[[UIApplication sharedApplication] sendAction:@selector(yourActionNameHere:)

richardbuckle / gist:7189956

Created October 28, 2013 01:15

Answers for @mikeabdullah's hipster question "What is the only public class in the Cocoa frameworks that has no methods of its own?

	I found:

	NSMessagePort
	NSURLSessionDataTask
	NSURLSessionUploadTask

	None of these were what Mike had in mind, which was NSFileSecurity.

	I commented that NSFileSecurity was doubly interesting because it's in Foundation but not listed in "Foundation Framework Reference".

richardbuckle / gist:e5205cdc9ad105741bb0

Last active August 29, 2015 14:03

fopen() fails with ENOENT but open() works. WTF?

	Verbatim LLDB session with an iPad Air running iOS 7.1.1.
	As you can see, "finPath", which is a const char*, is an absolute path.

	Normally fopen(finPath, "r") works fine but sometimes after stress-testing the app gets into a state where it always fails with ENOENT.

	How could fopen(finPath, "r") fail with ENOENT while open(finPath, O_RDONLY) succeeds?

	Edit: forgot to say that no memory warnings were received during the stress test.

	(lldb) p finPath

richardbuckle / gist:2a72cf293ec9dd7b7e01

Last active August 29, 2015 14:05

Let's break Swift Integer addition

	// written with Swift as of Xcode 6 beta 5

	import Swift

	let a = 2
	let b = 5
	let c = a + b // returns 42 not 7 even though coder is unaware of the override below, which could even be buried in a malicious import

	// extremely evil override
	public func + (x: Int, y: Int) -> Int {

richardbuckle / make-qa-log.py

Created August 16, 2014 07:35

Format your Git change log into markdown for nightly builds

	#! /usr/bin/env python

	'''
	Format the Git log between current and master into the markdown required for the HockeyApp nightly builds.
	'''

	import os
	import re

	ticketRegex = re.compile(r'#(\d+)')

richardbuckle / French journal.log

Created April 17, 2018 19:31

French language Elite Dangerous journal

	{ "timestamp":"2018-04-17T19:13:12Z", "event":"Fileheader", "part":1, "language":"French\\FR", "gameversion":"3.0.5.402 EDH", "build":"r168330/r0 " }
	{ "timestamp":"2018-04-17T19:13:12Z", "event":"Music", "MusicTrack":"NoTrack" }
	{ "timestamp":"2018-04-17T19:13:12Z", "event":"Music", "MusicTrack":"MainMenu" }
	{ "timestamp":"2018-04-17T19:13:45Z", "event":"Friends", "Status":"Online", "Name":"Doug Heisenberch" }
	{ "timestamp":"2018-04-17T19:13:45Z", "event":"Friends", "Status":"Online", "Name":"Myself_st" }
	{ "timestamp":"2018-04-17T19:13:45Z", "event":"Friends", "Status":"Online", "Name":"ST4R F0X" }
	{ "timestamp":"2018-04-17T19:13:45Z", "event":"Friends", "Status":"Online", "Name":"Spike1986" }
	{ "timestamp":"2018-04-17T19:13:45Z", "event":"Friends", "Status":"Online", "Name":"Freak97" }
	{ "timestamp":"2018-04-17T19:13:45Z", "event":"Friends", "Status":"Online", "Name":"NSR2" }
	{ "timestamp":"2018-04-17T19:13:45Z", "event":"Friends", "Status":"Online", "Name":"Valcor_" }

richardbuckle / gist:ac34863f350fa7581774549b273c15d4

Created September 16, 2018 21:59

Mission check galaxy VB version

	{_ Mission report }
	{_ Check what systems you have missions in }


	{_ Setup allmissions function }
	{set allmissions(system) to:
	{set here to find(systems, system)}
	{if here > -1:
	{set number to systems_count[here] + 1}
	{set systems_count to union(systems_count, [here:number])}

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