uninstalling XCode

Well, this is one is gonna be really quick, just a command to uninstall XCode code:


sudo /Developer/Library/uninstall-devtools –mode=all


That will do it, just remember to reboot the computer if you will install a previous version of xcode.

Thanks

 

Development Localization issues with iphone, ios, xcode

Well, I lost a lot of time trying to figure out how to localize my iphone application, other than look at the apple documentation we have a lot of nice resources out there to learn how to do it like:

http://www.raywenderlich.com/2876/how-to-localize-an-iphone-app-tutorial

http://www.icanlocalize.com/site/tutorials/iphone-applications-localization-guide/

So I will not explain again how to localize an application, because others did that already, the problem that I had is that I learned everything, and localized my entire application but didn’t work. I struggle with this for 2 days, looked on net for solutions but couldn’t find any. Doesn’t matter what I did my application just shows english localization, and I wanted to show Portuguese Brazilian instead but still not working. Well the thing is xcode allow you to localize your application for Brazilian Portuguese or GK English, etc,  but regions will not work on iphone/ipad/ipod, it will work only on a mac computer(imac, macbook pro, etc). The problem is the iphone doesn’t care about the region set, so the only thing that I had to do it is create a portuguese localization instead a brazilian portuguese localization, so the directory should be pt.lproj instead of pt-BR.lproj . This really sucks because xcode is the one that create the directories in the first place. I just would like to post this because it was hard for me to figure this out, I looked everywhere for an error on my code, but there wasn’t any, after reading a lot of apple documentation I understand what was going on. I hope this can help other developers. Bottom line in ios there is no way that I know of to localize the same language for two different regions, so my customers in Portugal will have to live with Portuguese from Brazil, or my GK customers will have to deal with usa english. cya guys

 

Great Year! Thanks God for everything that happened on 2009

Like my friend from survivor always says: First things first, so let’s start with work.

I worked a lot this past year, and really could achieve  some great rewards, hard work usually pays off:-). I’m an IT manager of Nastek Tecnologia, and we won the first place on the CNI – 2009 on Brazil, this reward is like the oscar in Brazil for companies, so we’re really glad, we took the first place on Technologic Inovation, we have been work so hard for 3 years now, and is so great to earn something that really remembers how hard you gave yourself and how hard you worked. I’m excited, and honored to be able to work with so talented people, and we together builded a great software/hardware. Our software/hardware is spreading on over the Brazil’s map, and we’re really thank GOD for everything that ‘s happening.

I’m a regular IBM employee too, and I earned on this pas year a good recognition of my hard work, on IDEAS program, I developed a software that integrates with service desk, and dispatch the tickets automatically, the oncall usually spends 2 hours of his day dispatching tickets, now this is over, my software is been running for a some time now, so long that people already forgot how hard was before my software, but IBM honored me with a Outstanding Achievement reward, so it’s great, I still working 15 to 16 hours a day, but it’s cool.

In the other hand on JustWorks perspective, I didn’t release Beta version of SimpleMoney yet, pretty bad, but I’ve been so busy. But this is a new year, and with GOD help and really hard work, I think I’ll be able to finish this project, it’s so cool because it’s mine. It’s something that I always wanted to do, but never have the time, I still don’t have time, but I’ll get it there anyway.

This past year I started to loose weight and rediscover a great sport that I’m really loving it, yes I’m riding a bike everyday to my work, it’s like 7km away from my house, so I ride at least 14 km everyday, sometimes 28 . This has been great for my healthy, there’s no better feeling of endorphin running in your system, you feeling you are getting tired, you are sweating it’s really the I’m alive feeling, feeling the sun, it’s awesome, for me that I’m a geek, it’s a pretty good feeling. I bought a bike last year(specialized) really awesome bike, and it’s my new toy, I got in the stage that I’m starting to training now, it’s not just ride anymore, I’m thinking in some races, and that stuff.

To finish, I had a awesome vacation, that I didn’t have one of this for years. Me and my family went to USA in December/2009, we went to miami, rented a car then travelled to Orlando, washington, Philadelphia, New York and Atlantic City. It was so amazing, so the eyes of my son on Disney, to travelled all the east coast, my wife an I discovered wonderful lakes, some places that is really difficult to see even on movies, I passed the Christmas in NY with my cousin, and New Year’s eve in Atlantic City, I gambled a bit, and won $1000 in Texas Holden, so it was everything great, really great.

The only thing that I can say now is Thank you God, for my health, my work, and my family, friends, and everything that happened to me in this past year. The really great thing is that we’re starting all over again, NFL is on Playoffs, NBA is getting HOT, American Idol just started this week, and the last year of Lost starts next month. So many great things, the only downside to me is that Giants, is not on Playoff this year, but we can’t win at all. Life is made of some victories and some defeats, the important thing is to learn from your defeats, and enjoy your victories always being humble.

To finish this post, I’ll write the best phrase of 2009, and it was said by SLY(Silverste Stallone) on his last rocky movie, this is really amazing guys….

..The world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows. It’s a very mean and nasty place… and I don´t care how tough you are… it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently, if you let it. You, me or nobody, is gonna hit as hard as life. But ain’t about how hard you hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit… and keep moving forward… how much you can take, and keep moving forward. THAT´S HOW WINNING IS DONE!…”(Rocky)

Me on Rocky Statue at Philadelphia

Me After have Climbed the Famous Rocky's Steps

Me and my Wife in this wonderful SPOT

Me and my Son at Central Park

Happy Family, on New York. Thanks GOD!

These streets will make you feel brand new... Love you baby

We gonna make it by any mean,s Baby you're in New York - Love you so MUCH

 

Netbeans errors when debugging in snow leopard

Ok, I usually say good things about java and apple, but this post actually is to make a workaround for an awful issue, that really pissed me off for some time. If you want to use Netbeans on Snow Leopard or even Eclipse there’s some things that you must know, like always install the software using a Java6 JVM as your default JVM, don’t use Java 5 because apple made some mistakes and some things that should be exclusive for Java 5 got override by Java 6, I know don’t ask. hehe, so even if you will use Java 5 for your projects, please for Leopard and Snow Leopard install netbeans using Java 6. There something that was really upsetting me: every time I want to compile any of my projects I got an error like couldn’t connect on socket, transport something. Well after a lot of headache I could see that this issue is related to your HOSTNAME, Leopard has a strange behavior that changes your hostname and got a new one from your DNS server, so if your machine is inside a local network probably you will not have this issue, but if you connect directly then it’s gonna be pain, a lot of pain. I know some programmers edit the /etc/hostname file and some of them could work around this bug, I went for a more drastic solution, but I think makes more sense, I just don’t want that my computer changes hostname everytime so the following commands will not let Leopard/Snow Leopard change your hostname.

sudo hostname whateveryouwant.local
sudo scutil --set HostName whateveryouwant.local
sudo scutil --set LocalHostName whateveryouwant

Once this is done, the name should stick permanently.

BTW – this error happens on eclipse exactly the same way.

 

Believe or not Java 32 bits on Snow Leopard

Apple didn’t say a thing, but we java programmers, have a nice really really nice surprise, installing Snow Leopard, apple gave us a really nice and wanted present, come on guys we have java 6 32 bits now, this is wonderfull news, and really really waited, actually we wasn’t waiting anymore just thought that would never come, but Apple heard our prays and release java 6 32 bits, well my life will change a lot because of that, because I was stucked on java 5 because java 6 on mac just 64 bits. But java 5 didn’t come at all on snow leopard, and that could be a problem for some folks, so I’m inserting here some quick steps on how to install on snow leopard our old friend java 5.

Download java 5 :

http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/isdal/snow_leopard_workaround/java.1.5.0-leopard.tar.gz

after that copy to some folder like /~/java5 and

tar -xvzf java.1.5.0-leopard.tar.gz

Move it to your System java folder

sudo mv 1.5.0 /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.5.0-leopard
cd /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/
sudo rm 1.5.0
sudo ln -s 1.5.0-leopard 1.5.0

Now you just need to open java preferences and you should be able to select Java5 as your default VM.

open "/Applications/Utilities/Java Preferences.app"

We’re done. Thanks Apple!! Snow Leopard is awesome, but Snow Leopard with JAVA 6 32 bits is amazing!!!

 

Snow Leopard Rocks and it is HERE!!!!

Snow Leopard is Here

Yes, it rocks, Leopard was really really awesome, but apple managed to improve more and release on 28th august snow leopard. Some may say it’s not a HUGE update, but you can bet it is. The things still almost the same, but apple improved so many aspects of the system, and one that everybody loves: SPEED, it is so much faster, and it’s the first time that before I upgrade and Operational System, I have less Free Memory on my HD than after the install. Believe me it’s awesome, I got more free space upgrading my system. The dock it’s really really good now, I read other day that they change something that users don’t use much in something really useful, I think it’s true, the dock menus are really cool and pretty too. Ok I upgrade my IMAC 20″ and my macbook and I got the same  question : Snow leopard asked me where is the System Events, well actually is easy, but for sure Apple doesn’t plan this, if that happens to you, don’t panic and don’t hit the cancel button, just browse and go to /System/Library/CoreServices then choose the application inside this folder “System Events”, yes is that easy, after that you are ready to enjoy your shine new O.S., Quicktime is amazing now, so many things improved that is impossible to describe, but please get Snow Leopard fast, for sure it is worth the $29,00. Come on you can buy a O.S for $29 bucks, it’s amazing. Apple looks like you will conquer the world indeed. I’ll upgrade 3 more Imac’s 24″ let’s see how that goes, but it should go pretty easy. Have a nice day Guys

 

SimpleMoney beta is almost ready

Stay tuned, because I’ve been work a lot on Simple Money, and I really enjoying working on it, and I’m really proud of what I’m developing, and soon everybody will be able to download the beta, and see what I’ve been doing.

 

Lakers wins 15 championship

I’m really excited today, because my team just won the 2008-2009 nba champioship. It is really awesome, when I remember when I was 16 years old, and play basketball everyday, 5 to 8 hours a day, and really dream in play like magic, and now see my team winning again is really cool. Kobe Bryant for sure one of the better players in the world, without O’neal, and I always though really ridicully, to say that Kobe is not complete without Shaq, Kobe is a true leader, and really really really awesome player. Kobe and Gasol, Fisher, Odom, an all the rest of the team congratulations, of course we need to say that Phill Jackson break a new record, he just won his 10th nba championship as a couch, Damn!!! He is awesome too. Well, can’t wait to see later this year all over again.

Go Lakers….. Next championship we will take Boston in the finals I hope and finish some business we start last year.

Magic

 

I’m swamped but glad!!

I’ve been working like a crazy, it’s just too much, but I’m really glad that everything is working so well, I’ve been able to work on my personal projects and the things really looking good. My company just started a new internet service, that I think it will be great http://www.justworks.com.br, and SimpleMoney is just doing great, I’ve seeing this project filling a huge gap among users, so I’m working a lot on it, and really put my mind to develop the best app I possible can. Soon I’ll release a beta, and a list of features, that will make your life easier. Below you can see a screenshot the app is working already, and I’m loving it. Don’t worry about the icons it will be changed soon!!

 

Vacation!!

As you may know I’ve been really busy from the last two years, working like 15 to 16 hours a day, and working like that is really hard to have some time to ourselves. Well I’m glad to tell you guys that I’m on vacation, I will not travel this year, just to be able to relax and stay home, and really do things that I really enjoy. I’ve been cooking a lot these days, it is one thing that really relax me. I cook for two sometimes three hours and it is really great: You can see some pictures of my recent journey on the great cooking art!