Category Archives: OS X

Complete guide for installing Hudson CI on OS X 10.6

Posted on 2010/09/24 by sorin

If you are one of the less lucky ones that do have to use OS X instead of Linux for installing a Hudson CI you could follow this guide because most of other resources I found were incomplete or obsolete, … Continue reading →

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Are we supposed to localize keyboard shortcuts?

Posted on 2008/12/11 by sorin

When I’m talking about keyboard shortcuts to things like Ctrl-S or even one key shortcuts like ‘A’ (used to Archive an email on Gmail). On the other side the mnemonics, known as hotkeys or the underlined letters in menus or … Continue reading →

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Virtual key codes on Apple OS X

Posted on 2008/12/09 by sorin

On Windows, keyboard events are reporting scan codes, virtual key codes and characters. If you want to deal with keyboard shortcuts and be able to use them in an international context you have to use the virtual key codes.

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Better localization for filenames on Windows, OS X and Linux

Posted on 2008/09/17 by sorin

If you have a localized application, at some stage you’ll discover that you need to localize filenames – for example if you have a set of template files. This is quite a tricky problem because it’s very hard to maintain … Continue reading →

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