There are times when you just have to bite the bullet and do some real coding with Xcode.  Here are some tips to make it ‘feel’ more like MSVC (with Visual Assist installed of course) so you can bounce back and forth without snapping and murdering your family again. Step 1: Get rid of that [...]

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Everybody has their own favorite development IDE.  Some love Eclipse, others adore Xcode, and a few old school types swear by simple text editors and shell scripts. (Hi Pov!) While cleaning up the Dink source I’ve been really getting my money’s worth out of Visual C++ with the Visual Assist add-on. Safely renaming variables One [...]

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Some more iPhone benchmarks and tests with everybody’s favorite difficult to pronounce 3d rendering framework! Thumb mode and floating point:  Just don’t Ok, first, I was an idiot before and somehow was still compiling in thumb mode. I know not to do that! Somehow the setting was removed but I guess the default is ON [...]

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So being between projects means I get to play around with random technology! For some upcoming secret projects I’ve setup Flite TTS and Irrlicht as plugins in my iPhone engine to test out. Flite It’s a text to speech thingie that lets you make the iPhone talk.   It’s uh… well, I actually don’t really have [...]

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Beta Testing Disaster: “It Crashed” I smiled as the AdHoc version of my new iPhone game zipped through the intertubes, neatly delivering itself to each beta tester to enjoy with his cheese and wine.  What could go wrong, my code is perfect as always.  (Yeah…) My smirk turned to horror as the replies came in [...]

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