October 20th, 2008
In part one I describe how to set up an Exception Handler, Uli discovered as first one that this handles not all cases. The missing part is a signal handler to get information of SIGSEGV, SIGBUS, … signals.
I thought the hard part of this is getting the backtrace inside a signal handler. I already found code for this, but I couldn’t use it because it was GPL. I tried the easy way, offering the author money to release it under public domain, oh boy this was a waste of time. But now that I found my own solution for this I’m happy that I didn’t spend money on this. (1 line versus 20 lines of code)
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October 18th, 2008
I’m getting ready to send my iPhone Application to the first beta testers and so I started thinking about crash reports.
On the Mac you have two options to get the crash report of your application. The first one is to check on startup if there is a new crash report file in ~/Library/Logs/CrashReporter for your application and simply send it. (Example: HDCrashReporter , UKCrashReporter)
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July 31st, 2008
Beta 6 support winmail.dat files in encrypted messages, improved winmail.dat file recognition, and as always bug fixes.
Note: The last two betas include sparkle 1.5b4 and there are still some problems with that.
If you already using the beta, please use the build-in update function (Mail Menu -> OMiC -> Check for updates…), else just write me a line.
By the way, I’m try to get into this twitter thing, so if you like you can follow me.
July 9th, 2008
This beta version fine tune the new integration into Mail. Also the winmail.dat converter itself got lot of bug fixes.
It took again a long time to release this beta, one of the main show stopper is the still existing GMail IMAP issue.
If you already using the beta, please use the build-in update function (Mail Menu -> OMiC -> Check for updates…), else just write me a line.
June 28th, 2008
If you are using googles popular mail services GMail over IMAP and demand on winmail.dat files you will run into a problem.
GMail IMAP doesn’t return the senders original winmail.dat file, it return a home-cooked file which have only the name in common. In this case, not even Microsoft Outlook can handle the winmail.dat file.
I tried to contact google about this issue over many different ways, but didn’t get a answer.
There are two workarounds: Switch back to GMail POP3 or use GMail web interface to access mails with winmail.dat attachment.
March 7th, 2008
Something is in the air, and it’s no MacBook Air, it’s the Cocoa Dev House Munich! Tomorrow many cocoa developer (70 people on the list, last year 34, will we double every year?) will meet at equinux. After the release of the iPhone SDK yesterday there should be a lot to talk about.
The train connections get worser every year, so I will come a hour late, hope I don’t miss too much.
February 20th, 2008
Tiger and Panther support is back in this beta. This was in some cases a real nightmare, you fix on thing, but break another… And I don’t want to start talk about time estimation, if I told you a total wrong date for this beta release, I’m sorry!
But let’s look at the good side: There are lot of bug fixes in it and it’s even better integrated into Mail than the last beta. Now you can over View Menu -> Message -> Plain Text Alternative/Best Alternative switch OMiC on/off. So a message with a winmail.dat attachment is now for Mail like a message with two alternatives like plain text and html.
If you already using the beta please use the build-in update function (Mail Menu -> Plug-Ins -> OMiC -> Check for updates…), else write me a line.
January 21st, 2008
Monday and Tuesday I needed to get away from OMiC because all my trials over the weekend fail and so I looked into Microsoft Entourage 2008 Plug-in development.
I got it, you want a Entourage version for OMiC. My last try is now to contact the General Manager of the Macintosh Business Unit, Craig Eisler. Hope he is kind enough to answer.
Wednesday I looked into the issue why Microsoft Outlook creates ATT000xx.txt attachments, I will blog about it soon.
Thursday finally located most Panther issues and start fixing them. I used for this 10.3 and the Xcode tools which comes with this, this was like a time machine. And I won an systemhelden/systemheroes t-shirt, unexpectedly, for sending feedback ;).
Friday fixing Panther issues, and I found a Mac OS X Tiger Install DVD and was able to setup up my old PowerBook G4 as test and build systems for OMiC 2. It’s now running 10.3, 10.4 and 10.5, and now I can use it without the external drive.
January 15th, 2008
Today is the release day of Microsoft Office for Mac 2008. Let’s take a look if it is possible to develop a Plug-in for Entourage 2008.
As far as I know, there was no way in Entourage 2004 for a Third Party Developer, and there is still no support from Microsoft. But after four years, things a little different now…
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January 8th, 2008
When running your own software business it is important that your website don’t go down, everything runs over your website. I current use a Hetzner dedicated server, and was unsure about the network availability after reading some blog posts.
Here comes SiteUptime into the game, which give you a free and simple way to monitor your website. And a short time this night my site wasn’t available, so I will try to check this with Hetzner and keep a eye on it.
A short update to OMiC, the last beta version in running very well on Leopard, the problem is still supporting Mac OS X 10.3 Panther.
