[Job posting] Blizzard, Mac Team

2007-08-22 Thread Rob Barris
http://www.blizzard.com/jobopp/mac-software-engineer.shtml This is a "Tools & Test" engineer position as part of the Mac SW group at Blizzard. Please me off-list if you would like to learn more (any specific questions about the work), or just visit the website to see how to apply. Rob - [

Re: Help Wanted: Testing CamelBones on Intel

2005-10-25 Thread rob barris
On Oct 25, 2005, at 9:03 PM, Ken Williams wrote: On Oct 25, 2005, at 12:53 PM, Sherm Pendley wrote: On Oct 15, 2005, at 9:02 PM, Sherm Pendley wrote: What about if I built a universal binary for y'all to try? Done. As the announcement mentions, the recent release of ShuX, as well as

Re: Evil undocumented Apple commands: command line profiler

2003-02-26 Thread Rob Barris
I use this one all the time. "sample pid duration interval" duration is in secs, interval is in msecs. if the PID of your task is 555: sample 555 10 10 yields a 10-second profile run into a file in /tmp, sampled at 10-ms intervals (1000 total samples). Rob On Wednesday, February 26, 2003,

Re: advanced stdout/stderr capturing?

2003-02-12 Thread Rob Barris
On Wednesday, February 12, 2003, at 08:43 PM, Nathan Herring wrote: I want to be able to write a perl script that does advanced logging of both itself and the system() calls it makes. One of my desired goals is to replace STDERR and STDOUT in such a way that 1) the command line user still sees

Re: OT: CVS clients and BBEdit diff tool ...

2002-12-02 Thread Rob Barris
On Monday, December 2, 2002, at 10:01 PM, John Gruber wrote: Bruce A. Burdick, Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 12/1/02 at 11:28p: I had to change 'BBEdit' to 'BBEdit 6.5' to allow this to work in my environment. [...] Naturally, this patch'll probably break other systems. A general solutio

Device::SerialPort

2002-11-25 Thread Rob Barris
http://search.cpan.org/author/COOK/Device-SerialPort-0.12/SerialPort.pm This would be handy (for me) but it doesn't build on OSX, no doubt because IOKit's interface is different from POSIX/Linux style device control. I do have a couple pieces of sample source for talking to serial port

Re: unix or mac-style text files?

2002-11-25 Thread Rob Barris
On Monday, November 25, 2002, at 03:27 PM, William H. Magill wrote: On Monday, November 25, 2002, at 08:50 AM, Chris Nandor wrote: While they're at it, they might drop file resource forks. Again, they essentially have. They are still supported because, as with the CR issue, they cannot jus

targeting a specific PID/path with an Apple Event, and 'v-string' warning

2002-09-26 Thread Rob Barris
Part 1 of 2: This is Perl-related only in that I'm trying to do it from a Perl script; it occurred to me that someone here might have seen how this is done. (also posted on the applescript list at lists.apple.com...) say I take an app and make two copies of it on the HD in disti

AppleEvents with Perl: CW7/8 and MacCVSPro

2002-09-24 Thread Rob Barris
I have two snippets of AppleScript that I want to be able to execute from a Perl program. (Forgive me for a bunch of references to variables and functions that are set as part of a larger enclosing script such as xbhome workdir, CVSSetup, cwtarg, goodbuild, workmsg1() etc... these snip

Re: need a hand

2002-09-20 Thread Rob Barris
I followed Puneet's post and had no problems here (I'll try the shorter syntax next time around). Thanks everyone! Is there a good summary of which CPAN modules work 'perfectly' / 'OK' / 'no-go' on OSX 10.2? Rob On Thursday, September 19, 2002, at 09:33 PM, Sherm Pendley wrote: >

need a hand

2002-09-19 Thread Rob Barris
I would like to install this CPAN module on my stock OSX 10.2 system: http://search.cpan.org/author/JPAF/Net-IMAP-Simple-0.93/Simple.pm so I can write a Perl script to poll an IMAP mail account for incoming messages periodically (and possibly send out some responses). How do I get started? Ro