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Warning: mktime() [function.mktime]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/Los_Angeles' for 'PDT/-7.0/DST' instead in /home/greenp4/public_html/bleepsoft/tyler/nucleus/libs/SKIN.php on line 823
Warning: strftime() [function.strftime]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/Los_Angeles' for 'PDT/-7.0/DST' instead in /home/greenp4/public_html/bleepsoft/tyler/nucleus/libs/SKIN.php on line 823
March 2006
Warning: mktime() [function.mktime]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/Los_Angeles' for 'PDT/-7.0/DST' instead in /home/greenp4/public_html/bleepsoft/tyler/nucleus/libs/BLOG.php on line 81
Warning: mktime() [function.mktime]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/Los_Angeles' for 'PDT/-7.0/DST' instead in /home/greenp4/public_html/bleepsoft/tyler/nucleus/libs/BLOG.php on line 82
Warning: date() [function.date]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/Los_Angeles' for 'PDT/-7.0/DST' instead in /home/greenp4/public_html/bleepsoft/tyler/nucleus/libs/globalfunctions.php on line 779
Warning: date() [function.date]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/Los_Angeles' for 'PDT/-7.0/DST' instead in /home/greenp4/public_html/bleepsoft/tyler/nucleus/libs/globalfunctions.php on line 779
Warning: date() [function.date]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/Los_Angeles' for 'PDT/-7.0/DST' instead in /home/greenp4/public_html/bleepsoft/tyler/nucleus/libs/globalfunctions.php on line 779
Warning: strtotime() [function.strtotime]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/Los_Angeles' for 'PDT/-7.0/DST' instead in /home/greenp4/public_html/bleepsoft/tyler/nucleus/libs/BLOG.php on line 170
Warning: date() [function.date]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/Los_Angeles' for 'PDT/-7.0/DST' instead in /home/greenp4/public_html/bleepsoft/tyler/nucleus/libs/BLOG.php on line 177
Warning: date() [function.date]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/Los_Angeles' for 'PDT/-7.0/DST' instead in /home/greenp4/public_html/bleepsoft/tyler/nucleus/libs/globalfunctions.php on line 1112
Warning: strftime() [function.strftime]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/Los_Angeles' for 'PDT/-7.0/DST' instead in /home/greenp4/public_html/bleepsoft/tyler/nucleus/libs/globalfunctions.php on line 1132
19/03 I have the I.Q. of a toaster
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A lot of my work deals in terms of web services nowadays, such as XML-RPC, and SOAP.
I discovered something quite interesting while working with a few sets of XML-RPC web services that required boolean values to be passed to them as part of the general XML data structure.
One might assume, just pass it CoreServices a "BOOL" value. Bzzzt. How about an integer, the whole zero or one thing from the olden days when people still used ANSI C....bzzzt. What about a string containing "true" or "false"....bzzzt. A string containing "0" or "1" wrong again!
Whether it be something specific with the APIs provided by the web site, or whether it be the CoreServices.framework API itself, none of the above will work.
As it turns out, throwing a boolean into your SOAP/XML-RPC calls needs to be a kCFBooleanTrue or a kCFBooleanFalse.
That's an hour of my time I'll never get back.
Warning: strtotime() [function.strtotime]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/Los_Angeles' for 'PDT/-7.0/DST' instead in /home/greenp4/public_html/bleepsoft/tyler/nucleus/libs/BLOG.php on line 170
Warning: date() [function.date]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/Los_Angeles' for 'PDT/-7.0/DST' instead in /home/greenp4/public_html/bleepsoft/tyler/nucleus/libs/BLOG.php on line 177
Warning: strtotime() [function.strtotime]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/Los_Angeles' for 'PDT/-7.0/DST' instead in /home/greenp4/public_html/bleepsoft/tyler/nucleus/libs/BLOG.php on line 182
Warning: date() [function.date]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/Los_Angeles' for 'PDT/-7.0/DST' instead in /home/greenp4/public_html/bleepsoft/tyler/nucleus/libs/globalfunctions.php on line 1112
Warning: strftime() [function.strftime]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/Los_Angeles' for 'PDT/-7.0/DST' instead in /home/greenp4/public_html/bleepsoft/tyler/nucleus/libs/globalfunctions.php on line 1132
15/03 Zee Units moost be a'testd!!
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Unit Testing in concept, very cool, unit testing in practicality, a bit tough.
The idea behind test driven development is a neat one, write your tests, then write your code to conform to your tests, simple as that! Except...GUI based stuff, network based stuff gets kind of hard and well....complicated stuff seems to be harder to write test cases for, than to write actual code for.
The only available unit testing framework for XCode is "OCUnit" Which by itself, is pretty well integrated into the XCode environment, but it still feels limited.
For example, let's say in a bit of my code, there needs to be some threading done, those threading applications are extremely hard to test, since....NSThread.detachNewThreadSelector doesn't want a returned value from those stinking selectors...
Maybe I should just go back to writing simple little tests to make sure my getter and setter methods are working correctly...curses you STAssertEquals!!!
Warning: strtotime() [function.strtotime]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/Los_Angeles' for 'PDT/-7.0/DST' instead in /home/greenp4/public_html/bleepsoft/tyler/nucleus/libs/BLOG.php on line 170
Warning: date() [function.date]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/Los_Angeles' for 'PDT/-7.0/DST' instead in /home/greenp4/public_html/bleepsoft/tyler/nucleus/libs/BLOG.php on line 177
Warning: date() [function.date]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/Los_Angeles' for 'PDT/-7.0/DST' instead in /home/greenp4/public_html/bleepsoft/tyler/nucleus/libs/globalfunctions.php on line 1112
Warning: strftime() [function.strftime]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/Los_Angeles' for 'PDT/-7.0/DST' instead in /home/greenp4/public_html/bleepsoft/tyler/nucleus/libs/globalfunctions.php on line 1132
15/03 Your Framework Will Never Work As You'd Like
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During a good long train ride from Dresden to Hamburg, then from Hamburg to Frankfurt, and my own framework that is to handle all of our (my co-conspirator Jon and my) products' basic functionality (Networking, Logging, etc) is finally working correctly. Phew.
Through some weird object-oriented-foo, and by subclassing NSObject with another abstract class, that all of our framework classes in turn subclass, everything is more or less working correctly.
Next up on the list, somehow molding the NSNetService and NSNetServiceBrowser classes into something more mallable and...erm...usable.
Regardless, here's your cool Cocoa Message Of The Day ™ [NSNetServiceBrowserObject searchForServicesOfType:@"_services._dns-sd._udp." inDomain:@""];
Try it out, you'll get to see all the services "bonjour-casting" on your local network. Neat, erm, n33t I mean. i r haxx0r.
Warning: strtotime() [function.strtotime]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/Los_Angeles' for 'PDT/-7.0/DST' instead in /home/greenp4/public_html/bleepsoft/tyler/nucleus/libs/BLOG.php on line 211
Warning: strtotime() [function.strtotime]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/Los_Angeles' for 'PDT/-7.0/DST' instead in /home/greenp4/public_html/bleepsoft/tyler/nucleus/libs/BLOG.php on line 213