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How to restart Plesk on CentOS / RHEL / Linux

I had always assumed that to restart Plesk, all that was necessary was the following command: service psa restart However, since Plesk is in charge of a multitude of services that’s not enough. Instead, we should be using service psa stopall service psa start Or if the service command isn’t working for you, you can … Read more

When Xcode 4.5 suddenly stops running your app on a device (could not launch app)

I’ve had this problem that Xcode 4.5 would run my app fine in the simulator, but didn’t do so anymore on the device. Something about the “derived data folder was not found”. I checked, it was definitely there. Then I found this post on Stackoverflow to show some suggestions: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11456312/xcode-suddenly-stopped-running-project-on-hardware-could-not-launch-xxx-app This solution worked for me […]

How to place an existing Xcode project under Version Control with Git (and ignore files you don’t want to track)

Usually when you create a new Xcode Project you can choose to setup a new Git repository. This is the best and easiest way to track your changes. However if you have a project that is not under version control you can create a Git repository retrospectively. This is fairly straightforward using the Terminal app […]

How to place an existing Xcode project under Version Control with Git (and ignore files you don’t want to track)

Usually when you create a new Xcode Project you can choose to setup a new Git repository. This is the best and easiest way to track your changes. However if you have a project that is not under version control you can create a Git repository retrospectively. This is fairly straightforward using the Terminal app […]

How to rename an app in Xcode 4.5

You can conveniently rename an app you’ve started. For this example, we have a project called Old Project, created from the Master/Detail Template. Three areas need to be changed here: the actual app name and targets the scheme the group in which most project files reside Renaming the app Click on the blue Project, wait […]