Archive 14. July 2011

Scripts Tagged fluid - Userscripts.org. Badly linked, as Fluid is a really cool site-specific browser for OSX and, for example, the Google+ Dock Badget is really practical. And with the separate cookie storage of Fluid, you can also keep multiple Google+ profiles open (or other sites that use cookies).

Responsive Applications - Mono. An article about the different ways to build applications with GTK# so that they respond quickly and do not block the user interface, even though GTK# is single-threaded (i.e., the UI can only be accessed by the GTK# thread).

MonoMac and XCode 4

Ouch, that really got me - I wanted to play with the GUI tools, but MonoMac doesn't fully support XCode 4 yet and only has this to say:

Developers that use Interface Builder are recommended to install Xcode 3.2.6 for the time being. MonoTouch News.

The bad part: that's from March. That's way too long without support, so MonoMac is just half a tool (if at all). Running XCode 3 and XCode 4 in parallel is also not an option (both want to be in the same folder). De facto, you're either stuck with XCode 3, or MonoMac is out. Or you build your GUI with GTK# - then XCode doesn't matter (the compiler part of XCode 4 is supported), but then you can forget about the AppStore (and GTK# doesn't really look great). Damn.