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A Tinderbox Scrapbook for Source Code: exporting in WordPress markdown

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How to create a scrapbook for Swift code snippets, which can be copied into Xcode, and exported for Wordpress publication.

June 6, 2017 General, Macs, Technology

Beyond Scripting in Swift: Sets, Lies, and Videotape

A simple and elegant way to eliminate duplicates from an array of strings comes and goes as Swift 3.1 takes charge.

May 26, 2017 Macs, Technology

Beyond Scripting in Swift: Dates, Steppers, and parsing log entries

How T2M2 analyses Sierra’s log to assess how backups have been working. With insights into using NSDate, NSStepper, and more.

May 23, 2017 Macs, Technology

More Scripting in Swift: Styling Attributed Text

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Structuring, parsing, and styling text is not difficult when you use Swift 3 as your scripting language.

May 16, 2017 Macs, Technology

More fun scripting with Swift and Xcode: An app in a couple of hours

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The making of DispatchView in a couple of hours. Apart from stealing code from Consolation, it was built from scratch in Swift 3.

May 10, 2017 Macs, Technology

Beyond Scripting in Swift: Reading and writing property lists

Implementing file save and file open for Property Lists using Swift 3.

May 6, 2017 Macs, Technology

Beyond Scripting in Swift: Running background activities

Getting GCD to schedule and dispatch a packaged external task, like a backup, is actually straightforward. Here’s how.

May 3, 2017 Macs, Technology

More fun scripting with Swift and Xcode: Encoding conversion without tears

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Factoring the code better to separate reading and writing the underlying data, and converting that for display.

April 14, 2017 Macs, Technology

More fun scripting with Swift and Xcode: huge popups, and strings too smart

Progress with Rosettavert to convert text encoding, including popup menus with 144 entries. But stumbling still on an issue of string encoding.

April 12, 2017 Macs, Technology

More fun scripting with Swift and Xcode: opening docs and converting text

Scripting a friendly front-end for the iconv tool to convert text between 144 different types of encoding. Also how to open as well as save documents.

April 11, 2017 Macs, Technology

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