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How to delete a branch in Git

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Sometimes Xcode gets confused with the intricacies of versioning. Frequently I find that I’m on a branch, everything is working fine, and for the life of me can’t merge it back into the Master branch. Often this happens because Xcode refuses NOT to make an change, such as update certain files I have already dealt […]

How to encode / convert a .strings file into UTF-16LE in Xcode

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When you create a new .strings file in Xcode it will be encoded as Unicode UTF-8. That’s sufficient to hold all the special characters you can dream of. Some translation services such as ICanLocalize require .strings files to be submitted in UTF-16LE though. Puzzled about what this even means I found out that UTF-16LE can […]

How to encode / convert a .strings file into UTF-16LE in Xcode

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When you create a new .strings file in Xcode it will be encoded as Unicode UTF-8. That’s sufficient to hold all the special characters you can dream of. Some translation services such as ICanLocalize require .strings files to be submitted in UTF-16LE though. Puzzled about what this even means I found out that UTF-16LE can […]

How to deploy Plesk 11.5 on Amazon EC2 (Linux)

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AWS LogoAmazon EC2 instances have seriously made my life a lot easier over the last year. And once you get the hang of the management console it’s actually not as scary as I always thought it would be 😉

I’d like to get away from annual contract bindings and “real” servers that could develop hardware faults. But if you wanted to run Plesk on top of CentOS then this was a bit of a headache – until Parallels launched their Plesk AMI on Amazon Marketpalce. With this release we get the convenience of running Plesk out of the box with a convenient one-click install!

I’ve just tried it and took some notes so I won’t forget. You can also take a peek at the KB Article provided by Parallels which also outlines this procedure:

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How to preload images in iOS

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When you’re displaying a UIImage in your view controller it’s hardly noticeable how long it actually takes for the engine to “draw” the picture. Lenoard van Driel has tested this and confirms it takes 80ms – or in television terms, 2 frames. That’s something worth putting an audio delay in for. Drawing several images in […]

How to delete an NSManagedObject in Core Data

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You can delete individual objects by using the NSManagedObjectContext method deleteObject, like so: [self.managedObjectContext deleteObject:yourManagedObject]; To delete all managed objects from your store, you can use a for-in loop: – (void)clearCoreData { NSFetchRequest *fetchRequest = [[NSFetchRequest alloc] init]; NSEntityDescription *entity = [NSEntityDescription entityForName:@”YourEntity” inManagedObjectContext:self.managedObjectContext]; [fetchRequest setEntity:entity]; NSError *error = nil; NSArray *fetchedObjects = [self.managedObjectContext executeFetchRequest:fetchRequest […]