Handling drags to your Cocoa application is pretty simple: you just have to implement the informal NSDraggingDestination protocol in some view hierarchy object that has been registered for particular drag types. Usually a drag is handled by a specific view that can make sense of the drag’s data type. For instance, an NSTextView will accept [...]

I have been happily using WordPress as the infrastructure for this blog since its inception, almost one year ago. Since I’m perhaps slightly geekier than than the average WordPress customer, I have been wanting to get to know the sources a bit better and possibly make my own tweaks or write plugins to suit my [...]

I have never gotten very good at any of the popular shell scripting languages. Over the years, I’ve dabbled in Bourne sh scripts, Perl, awk, and sed. I was never one of those magical guys who could make anything happen in a few seconds. But I’ve always wanted that to change. I’ve decided to learn [...]