Update: hmmm… looks like this may be only a temporary fix after all. It worked yesterday, rolling from Sept. 2 to 3, but this morning the date didn’t update to Sept. 4. I’m still searching for a solution, but based on the number of other folks I’m seeing report this issue, hopefully...

emacs sucks. Before the emacs lovers get on my case, for the record, I hate vi, vim, pico, and pretty much every other command line based text editor as well. Like many developers, several times a day I fire up Terminal on my Mac to take care of a few things, mostly working with Subversion or Git. I...

Out of the box, the latest version of Xcode (3.1.2 as of this writing) has some built-in Subversion (SVN) integration. However, the version of SVN that Xcode links to is slightly outdated – 1.4. (The current version is 1.6.1) Not really a big deal if you only use Xcode to interact with SVN for...

For a new project at work, I’ve been really digging into building iPhone apps. I’ve been pretty happy with using Xcode and Interface Builder for the work, and they’re some great tools. The only problem is that to be really productive in an IDE, you need to learn a bunch of the various...