Author Archives: Michaël Fortin

A small Ruby script to quickly throttle any port

Here is a small Ruby script I made for quickly throttling a specific port. It uses an ipfw pipe in order to do so; the script should work on any computer that has both Ruby and ipfw installed (that includes … Continue reading

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Recommended Reading — Part 1

Here’s a quick list of recommended reading for anyone interested in Mac OS X development and software development in general: Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X by Aaron Hillegass THE book everyone recommends (as well as myself) to start developing … Continue reading

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Git Aliases Quick Tip

Here’s a quick tip to create Git aliases for commands that you use often but are too long to type each time you want to use them. If you haven’t heard of Git or if you want to get up … Continue reading

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Selling my apps on the Mac App Store

Distributing apps on the Mac App Store is definitely an interesting prospect for Mac developers. I have seen many highly regarded Mac app developers backing the initiative almost immediately after the announcement saying their apps would be available on the … Continue reading

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Git Cheat Sheet, Overview & Tutorial

Introduction This is my personal cheat sheet for Git, which I built as I learned the tool more in depth in the past few days, cleanly formatted for your enjoyment (God knows it didn’t look like this before I started … Continue reading

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Interesting technical stuff worth writing about

I don’t know about you but I often find myself noting down procedures to remember myself of some of the technical things I work on for a while before they work like I want them to. You know, so that … Continue reading

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