iOS programming

From MacUser.co.uk January 2012 issue.

A programmer's friend :)

man hier

Type man hier on your terminal and you will get information about the layout of the filesystems.

It sounds simple...

Creators of TCPDUMP, WinPcap, and Wireshark share their awesome story

Καλά Χριστούγεννα!

Joomla 2.5 beta1 released

Learn more about it here.

"What happens to Joomla 1.7?

Joomla 2.5 is the direct upgrade for Joomla 1.7. Joomla 1.7 will be supported for critical security issues only for a period of one month after the release of Joomla 2.5. After that time, only Joomla 1.5 and Joomla 2.5 will be  supported by the Joomla project. Note that Joomla version 2.5 is a long-term-support (LTS) release and will be supported for at least 18 months."

Firefox 9.0

VirtueMart 2.0.0 takes off!

More about it here.


(it was about time...)

More Free Time...

(from MacFormat.co.uk Christmas 2011 issue)

TextMate 2.0 Alpha

You may already know that my favorite editor is TextMate from Macromates.


Version 2.0 is coming (it is in alpha state). More about it here.

iTunes 10.5.2

Joomla! 2.5 is coming

Read this for more.

People who are willing...

Explain simply

Cyberduck 4.2

Xcode 4.2.1

MacTech November 2011 articles!

Title: Typesetting a book on a Mac using LaTeX
Subtitle: How I used LaTeX to typeset a book


Title: Find Your Current iPhone Location
Subtitle: Four ways to find your location with your iPhone

MacPorts Python 2.7

--->  Activating python27 @2.7.2_2


To make python 2.7 the default 
(i.e. the version you get when you run 'python'), please run:
    sudo port select --set python python27


--->  Cleaning python27

iOS 5.0.1

Introduction to Joomla! security (in Greek)

http://joomladay.gr/event/presentations/item/25-intro-to-joomla-security

Very useful.

A players hire A+ players

"Actually, Steve believed that A players hire A players—that is people who are as good as they are.
I refined this slightly—my theory is that A players hire people even better than themselves.
It’s clear, though, that B players hire C players so they can feel superior to them, and C players hire D players. If you start hiring B players, expect what Steve called “the bozo explosion” to happen in your organization."

Read more: http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2011/10/what-i-learned-from-steve-jobs.html#ixzz1cgIwNKUa

Joomla! 1.7.2 available

"The Joomla Project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Joomla 1.7.2. This is a security release."

You can find more about it here.

Working on...

• Learning Moodle
• Writing 2 more articles for MacTech
• DTP-related work
• Developing http://tee-eid-iliou.att.sch.gr/
• Updating http://www.lprotopapas.gr/

Creativity

MacTech September 2011 article

Title: WireShark and DHCP
Subtitle: How WireShark solved a DHCP conflict


co-authored with Dimitris Tsoukalos

R.I.P. Dennis Ritchie

Lion 10.7.2 available

As always, I will download the combo update :)

iTunes 10.5 beta

Limited time

Stay hungry. Stay foolish.

Stay hungry.

Stay foolish.

www.lprotopapas.gr

The last few days I was busy creating a new web site with Dimitris Tsoukalos.
The site is the following:
www.lprotopapas.gr

Please, feel free to send any comments you may have.

iOS 5 :)

Apple store is down!

Larry Wall

Let's talk iPhone :)

Joomla! 1.7.1 released

Joomla! 1.7.1 released.

More about it at joomla.org.

Working on...

I was pretty busy the last few days and I will also be busy for the next few weeks doing the following:

• Installing VirtueMart on a Joomla! site
• Writing articles for MacTech
• Waiting for iOS 5 :)
• Creating two more Joomla! sites
• Waiting for iPhone 5?
• Installing WordPress on Lion

More tk

How to restart apache on Lion

Check if apache is already running:
mtsouk$ ps -ax | grep -i http
   38 ??         0:01.79 /usr/sbin/httpd -D FOREGROUND -D WEBSHARING_ON
   99 ??         0:00.02 /usr/sbin/httpd -D FOREGROUND -D WEBSHARING_ON
93322 ??         0:00.00 /usr/sbin/httpd -D FOREGROUND -D WEBSHARING_ON
93337 ttys000    0:00.00 grep -i http


Stop apache:
$ sudo launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.apache.httpd.plist


Check that apache is not running:
$ ps -ax | grep -i http93343 ttys000    0:00.00 grep -i http


Restart apache:
$ sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.apache.httpd.plist


Check that it is running:
$ ps -ax | grep -i http
93346 ??         0:00.25 /usr/sbin/httpd -D FOREGROUND -D WEBSHARING_ON
93348 ??         0:00.00 /usr/sbin/httpd -D FOREGROUND -D WEBSHARING_ON
93350 ttys000    0:00.00 grep -i http
mtsouk$

How to use PHP on Lion

Edit the /etc/apache2/httpd.conf file 
and uncomment the following line:

LoadModule php5_module libexec/apache2/libphp5.so

Restart apache and you are done!

What focus means

TruthTarget.gr

The last few days, Dimitris Tsoukalos and I were creating a web site called TruthTarget.gr.
We would like to hear your opinion about the site.


Note: The site uses the Greek language.

Lion Security Update 2011-005

Create a Gmail POP3 account

When creating a Gmail account using the Mail application that comes with Mac OS X 10.7 (a.k.a. Lion), it only allows you to create an IMAP account.

If you do not want that, hold the option button down until ‘Create’ turns into ‘Continue’ and you are done!

Running Lion

Earlier today, my iMac started running Lion.
It was pretty tricky to do the clean install I wanted. I had to install Snow Leopard without any apps, update to Mac OS X 10.6.8 and then upgrade to Lion.


Everything looks fine until now. I am now installing MacPorts software. The two things left are SuperDuper! and LaTeX. I also have to find which version of MySQL I will install as Lion does not come with MySQL.

Installing Lion 10.7.1

After a little delay, I am now installing Lion 10.7.1 using clean install.


More tk :)

SMARTReporter 2.7.0

MacPorts clean up

The following command erases all the temporary files that are generated during the build of an application: 
sudo port clean --all installed


The following command cleans up (removes) the old and unused versions:
sudo port -f uninstall inactive

Lion 10.7.1 available

You can find more information about Mac OS X 10.7.1 here.

Lion FAQ

• Have I already installed Lion?

No.

• Why?

Because I have some work to do.

• What kind of work?

I have to write articles (using MS Word) about WireShark, LaTeX and Octave and I do not want to have compatibility issues.

• Will I install it?

Yes, possibly at the end of August or at the beginning of September 2011.

• Anything else?

I do not find something in Lion that I desperately need, Snow Leopard is just fine for what I do (iOS programming, photography and writing articles). Nevertheless, I want to have the latest version of Mac OS X for programming reasons. I would also like to install the 10.7.2 version of Lion but I do not know when it will be available. This time I will do a clean install - install everything from scratch as I want a clean system.

Intel CPUs

From IEEE Computer, August 2011.

New Skype version

Just build something

Found it in MacTech magazine, May 2011.
by Justin Williams

My July 2011 MacTech article

Title: Using AppleScript and Perl for Automation
Subtitle: Saving Facebook pages as WebArchives in an automated way

iOS 4.3.5

About Michael Jordan

Many updates

June 2011 MacTech article

Title: Examining 3 Important Nmap Scans with WireShark
Subtitle: Using WireShark to explain Nmap traffic


Co-author: Dimitris Tsoukalos.

iOS 4.3.4 is available

iPhone 5 book!

Found it here.

Lion GM is available

Apple made the GM of Lion available to developers...
Hopefully Lion will be available to the rest of us next week.

Java 10.6 Update 5

Had to re-install 10.6.8 combo

I usually like to install combo updates on my iMac.
After downloading 10.6.8 combo the screen of my iMac went black and I had to turn it off (using the power button).


After that, although it looked like everything was fine, I successfully re-installed 10.6.8.

10.6.8 is available

I prefer the combo update.

Ιωάννης Καποδίστριας

iTunes 10.3

As it does not show on my "Software Update...", I am downloading it from Apple's web site.

iCloud

 

Works across iOS devices and Macs & PCs too.

Choose carefully

read it here.

Per-WWDC photo

WWDC 2011...

WWDC 2011 will be about:

• iCloud
• iOS 5
• Lion (Mac OS X 10.7)

Steve Jobs will be there!

iPhone is case-sensitive

I had a strange issue today while programming my iPhone. Although the application was running find on iOS Simulator, it crashed on my iPhone 4.


The iPhone was generating the following error:
2:53 unknown Pickers[15251] : *** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInvalidArgumentException', reason: '*** -[NSURL initFileURLWithPath:]: nil string parameter'


The problem was a wrongly typed file name. The "wrong" command was:
NSString *path = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@"Crunch" ofType:@"wav"];


and I had to change it to (notice the small __c__)
NSString *path = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@"crunch" ofType:@"wav"];


The funny thing was that both of them were working on the iOS Simulator but only the second one on my iPhone! So, iPhone is case-sensitive.

Tab bar items

As I was reading a book on iPhone 3 development, I thought that it would be useful to point out the new way (in Xcode 4) of creating tab bar items.

In Xcode 3, this job was done from the Attributes inspector of the Tab Bar Controller.
You should now drag a Tab Bar Item from the library to a Tab Bar Controller.

Tips for success

Found it at MacUser.co.uk.

My May 2011 MacTech article

Title: The SQLite DB and iOS
Subtitle: How to use SQLite on your iPhone and iPad

My April 2011 MacTech article

Title: Sending Cisco logs to Syslog on your Mac
Subtitle: How to set up both your Cisco router and your Mac in order to store Cisco log files