Subversion Server on Mac OS X Leopard Server

Filed under Apple + Mac OS X Server on Sunday, 7 March, 2010 12:13 pm

Subversion and Mac OS X Server image

Nayan Hajratwala over at Agile Shrugged managed to write a really great article describing how he got Subversion repos running on Mac OS X Server.

I got mine working on Mac OS X 10.5.8 but had to make a few different changes in order to get things working. His doesn't deal with multiple SVN repositories, only with a single one. This isn't ideal and I highly doubt anyone would go to the trouble of installing a SVN server (Click here for the full article...)

Compile ODE 0.11.0 on Mac OS X 10.6

Filed under Apple + Physics Engines on Wednesday, 30 December, 2009 10:54 am

The Official ODE instructions for compiling on Mac OS (even Linux) are pretty useless. Their wiki and instruction files included with the source code contains 'generic' instrcutions that list at what worked years ago. It frustrates me that their entire project becauses useless on one platform because it takes an inner knowledge of ODE's development process in order to get the damn thing to build.

Macports doesn't install ODE correctly either. Macports installs a PPC binary on your system (even if you have an Intel Mac). So here is the correct way to compile ODE on a Mac.

Download the ODE Source Code from Sourceforge.

Extract the source (Click here for the full article...)

Compiling PAL with Bullet Physics 2.75 (Linux)

Filed under Apple + Physics Engines on Tuesday, 22 December, 2009 12:52 am

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Install Bullet (Download Link):

cd bullet-2.75/
cmake . -G "Unix Makefiles" -DBUILD_EXTRAS=on -DBUILD_DEMOS=on -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug
make

Pretty simple. The demos will be built to bullet-2.75/demos/ and the Bullet libs are built to bullet-2.75/src/

Compiling PAL with Bullet Physics 2.75 (Mac OS X)

Filed under Apple + Physics Engines on Monday, 21 December, 2009 11:47 pm

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1. Install Bullet (Download link):

You need to do a little bit of hackery on Mac OS X in order to get Bullet to build properly. (I'm running Snow Leopard 10.6). I have installed Bullet into /lib/bullet-2.75/

First, you need to get the (Click here for the full article...)

Install Gazebo 0.8.0 on Ubuntu 9.10

Filed under Internship + Programming on Tuesday, 15 December, 2009 11:33 am

Official instructions are here, but this method worked for me:

install these packages with synaptic: (Click here for the full article...)

Configuring a New Mac OS X Installation

Filed under Apple + Mac OS X on Friday, 4 December, 2009 11:53 am

The aim is to document commonly useful configurations and settings that you should consider applying when you get a new Mac or perform a reinstall.
Feel free to leave a comment if you have any suggestions you think should be added.

Disable .DS_Store file creation for network connections.

defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteNetworkStores true

Copy NSString to Clipboard

Filed under Cocoa + Objective-C on Sunday, 20 September, 2009 12:09 pm

Coming back to the ultimate purpose of this blog... helping my memory! :D
Here we are: a code snippet to copy a NSString to the clipboard...

-(void)copyToClipboard:(NSString*)str
{
NSPasteboard *pb = [NSPasteboard generalPasteboard];
NSArray *types = [NSArray     arrayWithObjects:NSStringPboardType, nil];
[pb declareTypes:types owner:self];
[pb setString: str forType:NSStringPboardType];
}

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