Monthly Archives: June 2007

Why isn’t this working?

Now see, if you had run this in the debugger the problem would have been blindingly obvious immediately. — Mike Ash
Overheard in IRC.  More than one developer has burned an afternoon trying to “read” his code to find a bug that is actually a side effect of some lower level kit.  This was in response [...]

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Ditherati: See the Digerati Dither, Daily

Ditherati: See the Digerati Dither, Daily
Ditheratri is one of my favorite sources of amusing quotes from the tech industry.  A while back they went all-quiet.  Now they are back.  Just in time for all the great iPhone quotes!
Followup: Shortly after I posted it went dark once again…..

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QLog()

This Snippet is an alternative to NSLog. NSLog is great for occasional logging of debug and status message. It can however be a bit verbose because it includes the timestamp, process name, and process id on every line. If you are writing a command line tool this is overkill.QLog removes all this [...]

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