Distracted Attention

Scripting Sparkle Appcasts with Feeder and RubyCocoa

This article will demonstrate how easy it is to use RubyCocoa and the ScriptingBridge to talk to scriptable applications. The example I’ve used is using the Feeder (RSS Feed Creator) application to create (and optionally publish) updates to a Sparkle Appcast Feed.

Posted by Nick | August 2, 2008 | Filed under Cocoa, Featured

Git Build Numbers for your Project

Had an idea earlier today to use script to generate incremental build numbers when compiling my Xcode projects. By default, Git uses hashes which resemble 02af6c6986c0973a38acb1a1dc392012840067c7, which is not human-friendly.
Dusted off my Programming Ruby book and put together the following:

Posted by Nick | July 21, 2008 | Filed under Cocoa, Design, Featured