There is no built-in uninstaller in macOS for most applications: bundled apps can be removed by dragging them to the

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A collection of Core Data resources I found genuinely useful back in 2011, plus a pre-populated-store pattern that still works.

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Back in 2011 this post was a bare copy-paste of a getifaddrs() snippet for reading an iPhone’s Wi-Fi MAC address.

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With LINQ to SQL you can’t change a foreign-key column directly on a tracked entity — the context owns the

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Symptom: SQL Server refuses to run xp_cmdshell with SQL Server blocked access to procedure ‘sys.xp_cmdshell’ of component ‘xp_cmdshell’ because this

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What you’re seeing If you use WordPress’s one-click updater, you’ve probably met this screen: the whole site — admin included

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Coming back to the ultimate purpose of this blog… helping my memory! Here is a code snippet to copy an

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A short and simple recipe for getting an NSDate from an NSString using NSDateFormatter — the question behind it (“how

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Rebuilding the Icon Cache Database (Vista / 7) When desktop or Explorer icons go blank, generic, or flat-out wrong, the

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Here’s a quick way to separate iPhone 4 / iPhone 3 code paths — back when “retina display” was the

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