Static Linking with C++ Project in Xcode

Posted on December 07, 2011 in Development and Xcode

This week at NSCoder Night, another developer was trying to statically link the MySQL library. He had initially linked it as a dynamic library and couldn't seem to get it working with Xcode. After working with it for a little while I figured out what needed to happen; and it wasn't clear. Here I'll discuss what process I went through to track down the problem and what tools I used.

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CocoaConf Raleigh 2011

Posted on December 06, 2011 in Cocoa, Conferences, Community, and Speaking

This weekend I was a speaker and attendee at CocoaConf; a 2-day conference series for Mac and iOS developers. It was a small conference that left time for people to actually meet each other and had many great sessions from great developers. Here I'll review the conference, a selection of my favorite sessions, and a post-mortem of my sessions.

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Back to blogging and working without a clock

Posted on September 05, 2011 in Getting things done

It's that time of year again. That time, late in the year, where I start wishing I blogged more often. It actually started earlier this year when I rewrote this whole blog1 back in March.

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