Michael Tyson | A Tasty Pixel

Textmate: ‘git diff’ in FileMerge

I found myself wanting to pick through some changes I made under a git repository recently, discarding some and adapting others. The FileMerge utility that comes with the Mac OS X Developer Tools is great for this purpose, but in TextMate, there’s currently no way to compare uncommitted changes in a git repository using FileMerge.

Now there is!

View Uncommitted Changes in FileMerge.tmCommand.zip

Double click to install it in Textmate; it appears under the ‘Git’ bundle. I suggest you then select the ‘Git’ bundle group header, and drag this command (‘View Uncommitted Changes in FileMerge‘) up to the top of the menu list on the right, so it’s accessible via Control-Shift-G, 1.

It’s based on filemerge.tmbundle.

Experiences setting up Potion Store

I wrote recently on some options I was considering for A Tasty Pixel’s store. Rather than going with a service like Kagi or eSellerate, I decided to build the store upon Potion Factory’s Potion Store, which is free and open-source — the latter being a big draw, as it means infinite customisability. Potion Factory have done a wonderful thing for the indie Mac developer community! Together with PayPal’s ‘Website Payments Standard’ service, which offers quite reasonable fees, all my needs were addressed.

So, I thought I’d follow up by writing about my experiences putting it all together.

A Tasty Pixel’s store and Talkie for Mac Premium

I’m happy to announce that the store is now open for business! We accept PayPal and all major credit cards, in four currencies.

Talkie for Mac 1.0 is now available, and can be registered to access the features of Talkie for Mac Premium:

Talk to others using the free version of Talkie for Mac
Push-to-talk calls with anyone over the Internet, coming next in Talkie for Mac 2.0

…On top of the features of the free version of Talkie for Mac, of course:

Zero-configuration operation: Start Talkie, and start talking
12 distinct channels
Configurable global hotkey to transmit while performing other tasks
Unobtrusive interface
Incoming and outgoing audio indicators
Mute facility
Talk to others using Talkie for iPhone or Talkie for Mac Premium.

Talkie for Mac is here

Talkie for Mac is here!

Note: Talkie has been retired since mid-2011. It may return at a later date. This post remains for historical purposes only.

The current features of Talkie for Mac:

Zero-configuration operation: Start Talkie, and start talking
12 distinct channels
Configurable global hotkey to transmit while performing other tasks
Unobtrusive interface
Incoming and outgoing audio indicators
Mute facility

The application can be used with Talkie for iPhone for free, as well as with the registered version of Talkie for Mac, codenamed ‘Talkie for Mac Premium’.

To talk to others using the free version of Talkie for Mac, though, Talkie for Mac Premium is $4.99 — available as soon as the store is up and running.

So, go and grab a copy of Talkie for Mac now! Then, leave a comment below and tell me what you think.

Store options for the Indie Mac Developer

With my new product, Talkie hitting the iPhone App Store, it’s time to investigate options for the selling of software for the Mac too, as Talkie will also be available shortly on Mac OS X, in both free and commercial versions.

Happily, and unfortunately, there are many, many options available for store systems, requiring varying degrees of effort to set up. In case it’s useful for kicking off others’ research, here’s what I’ve found out.

Introducing Talkie

A Tasty Pixel’s new application has hit the App Store: Talkie!

This bad boy stands out from the crowd with an engine that works not only over Bluetooth, but also over WiFi networks. Talkie will broadcast over the network so that any other iPhones running the same app — or any Macs running Talkie for Mac — will pick up the signal. No setup needed, it just works.

Should be great for uni students, or folks in large offices, and Talkie for Mac should fill the gaps for those without iPhones.

Talkie for Mac will come in a free edition, which offers two-way communication with the paid versions of Talkie, and the ‘pro’ edition which works with everything. That means you only need to buy one copy, then set your friends up with the free version to talk away.

Over the next few weeks I’ll be writing a little about Talkie’s guts and development, so stay tuned.

Unit testing and coverage with XCode

There are several great resources out there on how to incorporate unit testing into XCode projects. It’s all built into XCode now, and it’s fantastic.

I just got coverage working too, thanks to a useful article at SuperMegaUltraGroovy on how to use code coverage with XCode. There were a couple of caveats that I thought I’d share, though.

Living the dream

Just in case it’s of interest to any current readers of this blog, I’ve created a new blog where I’m fairly diligently (at least, for now) chronicling our adventures as we re-invent our lives travelling Europe for a few years in a motorhome.

Read about it here

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