Distracted Attention

Script your Sparkle with Ruby

Chris Bailey has written some ruby code to automate appcast creation:
Creating Sparkle Appcast via Rake Tasks
I’ll be tinkering with his script to do the same from Xcode.

Posted by Nick | July 28, 2008 | Filed under Cocoa

Xcode Build Scripts - GitHub Repo Created

Later today I’ll be uploading the scripts referenced here to my GitHub repository: xcode-build-scripts.

Posted by Nick | July 28, 2008 | Filed under Cocoa

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