Found it. A toolbar item's view was nil. Perfectly normal, I just didn't bother to catch it. Definitely time for better exception handling.
Suzanne Vega - Gypsy - what a wonderful song. I don't like her new album all that much, but I had never heard this one before, and… wow.
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Fighting a really ugly bug with ICeCoffEE 1.1 and OmniWeb (which cropped up in some changes I made to the loader since 1.1d2, i.e., tonight). NSLog output seems to go to the bit bucket; I've finally found the location of the problem. I should have finished and gone home three hours ago. Argh.
6:51 AM | Radio
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Digital seems to have a drive worth looking into. While there's
no possible way I can use a 120 GB drive (I'm currently using 16 GB on
my 40 GB hard drive), a 7200 RPM ATA drive that performs like that is
a good sign.
downloads. Bug fix and potential new feature coming today,
assuming I get my laundry done some time soon!
7:53 PM | Radio
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People seem to
like ICeCoffEE. Over 600 downloads so far. A small reminder of
why I program. To me, there are few things as motivating as knowing
you're doing something that people truly appreciate. Now, not to let
to this go to my head. “qbullet.sidesmiley”
I wish I had my camera tonight, there was a beautiful pattern in the
sky at sunset near Willard Airport. The clouds were disturbed by
airplanes in a X shape. It was absolutely stunning.
I played my cello with a guitar for the first time in ages last night.
Decided to leave my cello in the lab, since Lee has his guitar there
and it will facilitate late-night collaboration. Must do this more.
11:57 PM | Radio
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Steve Zellers writes about old Mac debuggers. It was pretty funny when I went to WWDC, you could spot Jasik running on someone's PowerBook from a mile around. The one piece of software I remember being amazed at someone using Jasik on was Lotus Notes.
I never used TMON, I was happy with source-level debugging (LightsBug ruled!) at that point. But I remember reading at some point about some people who worked on TMON… made an interesting story, but I have now forgotten.
And now we have gdb. I'm not sure this is an improvement. Quinn's “GDB for MacsBug users” was a pretty good read, though. I love the way people at Apple's shell prompts give away who wrote the documentation.
12:22 PM | Radio
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ICeCoffEE 1.0a6 is released. If anyone's reading this and has OS X, please download, test and send me email if it works or doesn't. Especially test the installer, as it's has a lot of work done to it recently.
Sleep.
11:58 AM | Radio
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Delete LFS cruft from xnu: Looks like the FreeBSD 4.4 to Darwin merge is going to include FreeBSD's FFS (is UFS the same as FFS?). Cool.
I still wish that HFS+ could be modernized so we could get journaling and metadata, but that doesn't seem the way things are going.
5:03 AM | Radio
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Fixed the ICeCoffEE bug. Had an inspiration at dinner. If I explained it here people would laugh at me because it was so obvious, but hey, it works. All I can say is: Objective-C rules.
Adding a “Remove” feature to the installer right now, then beta 1 is ready to go out.
Jim, sorry about your job. I only met you once, at WWDC'99, but from talking to you and reading what you write on your weblog, it's obvious that you're one-of-a-kind. Someone needs to hire you and fast.
4:57 AM | Radio
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