Lazarus

Get Lazarus today, you’ll thank me later.

Lazarus auto-saves web-forms as you type, so if a server times out, your cat wanders across the keyboard, you close the page by accident, or anything else goes wrong, you can simply return to that page, click the Lazarus icon next to the form, and select what you want to recover. It’s just that easy.

Already saved me from losing my text (and my nerve) today. Hat tip to Karim for discovering this.

A tour of the ISS

I so want to go to space now 🙁

G500

Let’s see now if I truly suck at Battlefield 3 or the crappy mouse had something to do with that

EDIT: it did help a bit.

Another gotcha for the future: if you ar…

Another gotcha for the future: if you are managing a core data object relationships, don't do this
NSSet *categories = [self.blog.categories filteredSetUsingPredicate:predicate];
if ([categories count] &gt; 0)
    [self.categories addObjectsFromArray:[categories allObjects]];
Do this instead… Read More

via Making WordPress for iOS

Map, Filter and Reduce in Cocoa (via Important Shock)

After working in Scheme, Python or Ruby, all of which (more or less) support function objects and the map(), filter() and reduce() functions, languages that don't seem to be somewhat cumbersome. Cocoa manages to get these paradigms almost correctly implemented. map() One would think that Objective-C's ability to pass functions around as objects in the form of selectors would make writing a map() method easy. Observe, however, the crucial differen … Read More

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