Odhran Miss, Author at iZZiSwift

In Python NumPy what is a dimension and axis?

December 3, 2020 Odhran Miss

Question or problem about Python programming: I am coding with Pythons NumPy module. If coordinates of a point in 3D space are described as [1, 2, 1], wouldn’t that be three dimensions, three axis, a rank of three? Or if that is one dimension then shouldn’t it be points (plural), not point?

npm command – sudo or not?

December 3, 2020 Odhran Miss

Question or issue on macOS: Currently I always run sudo npm install but as I understand it’s not correct.

Is there a way to add Google Chrome as an external web browser in Flash Builder Standalone for Mac?

December 3, 2020 Odhran Miss

Question or issue on macOS: It currently seems impossible to add Google Chrome as an external web browser in Flash Builder Standalone for Mac. In this context, Eclipse only cares about “Unix executables” and not .app files.

Generating permutations with repetitions

December 3, 2020 Odhran Miss

Question or problem about Python programming: I know about itertools, but it seems it can only generate permutations without repetitions.

macOS: Notarize in Script?

December 3, 2020 Odhran Miss

Question or issue on macOS: Because the codesigning and archiving by Xcode is time-consuming, boring and problematic, I’ve always codesigned, archived and shipped my Developer ID signed macOS app using the command-line tools xcodebuild, codesign, etc. via my own script. Notarizing looks like it is going to be a major pain. Is it possible to […]

XAMPP or MAMP on Mac OS X 10.6.2 (Snow Leopard)

December 3, 2020 Odhran Miss

Question or issue on macOS: I just bought a new MacBook Pro which comes with Snow Leopard 10.6.2 (Mac OS X 10.6.2). I am used to using XAMPP as my local development server on XP. Since Mac OS X is based on Unix, I was thinking on activating/installing all the necessary stuff as I would […]

Hash value of String that would be stable across iOS releases?

December 3, 2020 Odhran Miss

Question or problem in the Swift programming language: In documentation String.hash for iOS it says:

What does hash do in python?

December 3, 2020 Odhran Miss

Question or problem about Python programming: I saw an example of code that where hash function is applied to a tuple. As a result it returns a negative integer. I wonder what does this function do? Google does not help. I found a page that explains how hash is calculated but it does not explain […]

Error: Initializers may only be declared within a type

December 3, 2020 Odhran Miss

Question or problem in the Swift programming language: Here’s my code

NSMutableArray memory management

December 3, 2020 Odhran Miss

Question or issue on macOS: NSMutableArray *a1 = [[NSMutableArray alloc] init]; NSMutableArray *a2 = [NSMutableArray array]; TempObj *obj = [[TempObj alloc] init]; //assume this line is repeated for each obj [a1 addObject:obj]; [a1 addObject:obj2]; [a1 addObject:obj3]; [a1 addObject:obj4]; [obj release]; [obj2 release]; [obj3 release]; [obj4 release]; [a1 release]; Ok so a2 is an autorelease obj […]