Archive for February, 2007

What is dewpoint?

Thursday, February 22nd, 2007

I just posted a new weather article over on the Gaucho Software Forums this morning. The article talks about what dewpoint is and how we can measure it. This is one I’ve been meaning to write for quite awhile now and I finally got a chance to spend some time on it.
If you [...]

Removing preferences belonging to your app…

Tuesday, February 13th, 2007

I was working on some code to uninstall an application, and was pleasantly surprised to find that Cocoa’s NSUserDefaults class will remove the application’s preferences file from ~/Library/Preferences if you remove all the keys:
NSUserDefaults *defaults = [NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults];
NSArray *keys = [[defaults dictionaryRepresentation] allKeys];

int i, count = [keys count];
for (i = 0; i < count; i++) [...]

The Cult of Seasonality

Monday, February 12th, 2007

I’d like to send a big thanks out to Scott McGrath for his awesome review of Seasonality on the Maccast…
Seasonality is a gorgeous OS X application, a distinctive Cocoa app that makes people stop, look and ask questions when they walk by a display showing its exotic weather maps, satellite imagery, forecast data, and charts [...]