I finally got the Mac Pro fully installed. Using the migration utility on a Time Machine backup screwed up the mailboxes in Mail somehow, so I had to hook up the old iMac as a firewire target and copy it all over again. Then it worked. Some apps needed re-licensing, especially Adobe is a mother [...]

Just now, the rest of the parts arrived, that is four 500 Gb drives and 4 x 2 Gb RAM, all from OWC. I was a bit impatient and forgot to snap pictures of it before putting it into the box. But you all know how hard drives and RAM looks, right? Except this particular [...]

Some stuff arrived today as expected. Other stuff did not. The stuff that did arrive was the Mac Pro itself with the displays. The stuff from OWC seems to be still in Indiana somewhere. According to Fedex tracking, it will be here next week tuesday. The post office truck arrived with three boxes. One big [...]

As I already told you about in my previous blogentry, I need to replace my iMac 2 Gb with something heftier. So the solution is to get a new Mac that allows me a lot more RAM and a number of internal fast diskchannels. If I can place the Parallels images on one or two [...]

Way back, I developed under Windows, starting from nothing (v 1.03) and going all the way up to XP. Then I drifted into OSX. Recently I drifted back, but not all the way. Currently I’m developing for Windows XP on my iMac, and this is how it looks: As you can see, I’m running two [...]

Time to figure out how to make a certain textfield gain focus. Remember, when doubleclicking the countries table, we want the drawer to slide open and the first field in that drawer to get keyboard focus automatically. We already got the drawer to open, so now is the time to get that focus thing working.

We’re still working to get the country browser right, and it isn’t right yet. I don’t want the table in the browser to be editable, that is what the drawer is for. So when you doubleclick on a row in the browser, I want the drawer to slide out, if it’s not visible, and to [...]

Let’s take a closer look at the radiobuttons and how they relate to core data. Remember how the countries drawer pane looks in Interface Builder: I want the four radiobuttons to correspond to the four possible “VAT regions” in the data model: Maybe I need to explain what I mean by “VAT regions”, as most [...]

I’m back after finally getting the tax forms mailed in. What a waste of time that is. A civilized society shouldn’t be doing these things to their citizens. Now the time has arrived to construct the CountriesController class. This class controls the model and view for the countries data element. It is instantiated by the [...]

I realize I skipped a step right in the beginning. I’m sure I skipped more steps, but at least I noticed this one. The step I missed is: How does one create a new window and its associated objects and have it created when a menu option is clicked or another part of the application [...]