Archive for February, 2009

heipei.net – Oh my god, that’s the funky shit!

Yeah, you read correctly. As of right now, this website can be reached via heipei.net again. For those of you who haven’t been reading this weblog 2 years ago: The domain heipei.net was snatched from me in September ’06. This of course happened to same part due to sloppiness when trying to move the domain [...]

Xcode: git describe in your Info.plist

Debugging programs for yourself (or from bug-reports from other people) requires knowing which version caused the bug. Of course most people think in terms of major releases, but a developer needs to know the exact revision, as this might make the crucial difference. UNIX command-line programs usually offer a –version switch, which returns detailed version [...]

MacOS X: GeekTool & SSID/BSSID from Terminal

Working on my laptop a little bit more since I bought myself a new one I began the never-ending quest of doing things in MacOS via command-line that you’d have to do by GUI otherwise. But let me start by introducing GeekTool, a funny little PrefPane to display the output of commands on your desktop. [...]