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For the organised (or unorganised) packrat, Yojimbo is just one of those tools that you have and 99% of the time it’s in the background, ie. I just throw stuff into it and know it’s there safely in the background where I may need it, one day, like say, tax time.

Sometime ago I was working on a project that required me to store PDF’s in a backend database, but, during the import I needed to extract some key meta data from the file and present it in a sidebar info panel about the document being worked on.

Anyway things went well - we used a variety of sample PDF’s in our testing, everything from client provided Windows MS Office PDFs, Acrobat PDFs and a few from Mac OS X’s “Print PDF” function. Of course on day 1 of the update going on trial we got a user report that the system has thrown up an error and wouldn’t import a PDF.

Well Yojimbo just did the same thing to me, and it turned out to be the same sort of problem.

People are a funny breed of people.

In our default mode, we look at the world as if it’s always going to turn out the way we expect and some of us believe everything we hear. Then we act surprised when it doesn’t meet our expectations. After all, how many of you constantly vote for the same politically party time and time again even when they don’t meet your expectations?

Just a quick note to advise you all that our EasyTable component has been approved by the Joomla Extension Directory Yay!

Today I’d like to introduce EasyTable for Joomla, which can be found on the (temporary) See People Software website. If you don’t want to read my waffle, then click on the EasyTable link and download the component. Please bear in mind this is not the official release, it should only be used for testing at this point in time. Sometime after JoomlaDay Sydney I’ll endeavour to release the 1.0 production ready version for public consumption.

Webkit, for the uninformed, is the Open Source engine at the heart of Apple's Safari for Macs & Windows and Apple's Mobile Safari for the iPhone. Now for the non-Apple fan before you start ragging on a great piece of OSS bear in mind that WebKit is also at the heart of Google's Chrome and a range of other browsers and pieces of software, including a range of new mobile phones from the likes of Nokia and Samsung.

Mobile Orchard is becoming one of those websites that absolutely must be read by iPhone Developer and their latest article is good for anyone that uses Xcode.

This is another one of those tips - that are posted here as much for you as for me.

Obj-C brought with it a range of useful and time saving advances to the language. The most widely used amongst these are @property and @synthesize - if you want to know more about them follow the links. This is actually about an Error Msg you can get through forgetting some basics.

As programmers we should always be learning, it's inherent in the ecosystem the we work and live in... so for todays lesson may I present the Top 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors.

(January 12, 2009) Today in Washington, DC, experts from more than 30 US and international cyber security organizations jointly released the consensus list of the 25 most dangerous programming errors that lead to security bugs and that enable cyber espionage and cyber crime. Shockingly, most of these errors are not well understood by programmers; their avoidance is not widely taught by computer science programs; and their presence is frequently not tested by organizations developing software for sale.

This has bit me a few times so it's worth putting here, if only to remind myself. This problem is a bit obscure and it seems to only happen (for me at least) when starting a new project.

As you could probably guess from the release of the iPhone 2.2 Firmware registered developers can now get the 2.2 SDK as a released product.