Parks and Recreation is an American comedy series. It aired on NBC from 9 April 2009 to 24 February 2015. Greg Daniels and Michael Schur created it. Amy Poehler plays Leslie Knope, a cheerful and driven mid-level bureaucrat in the parks department of Pawnee, Indiana.
The Mentalist is an American crime drama series. It aired on CBS from 23 September 2008 to 18 February 2015. Bruno Heller created it. Simon Baker plays Patrick Jane, a former fake psychic who now works as a consultant for the California Bureau of Investigation.
NSCalendar offers many tools for working with dates beyond basic NSDateComponents.
If you see system_installd running on your Mac, here is what this system-level installer process does.
NSScanner wraps a string to pull out substrings and numbers. It has properties like caseSensitive (for matches), charactersToBeSkipped (ignores chars), scanLocation (current position), locale (for numbers).
Monthly update 298 • February 2015 • 2015-02-01 - 2015-02-28
The Heavy Water War is a Norwegian miniseries. It aired on NRK in January 2015. Petter S. Rosenlund directed it. The show tells the true story of the Allied effort to stop Nazi Germany from building an atomic bomb by sabotaging the Norsk Hydro heavy water plant at Vemork in occupied Norway during the Second World War.
Interstellar (2014), directed by Christopher Nolan, follows Cooper, a pilot turned farmer in a dying world. Matthew McConaughey plays Cooper with heart and grit.
Monthly update 297 • January 2015 • 2015-01-01 - 2015-01-31
If you see wifip2pd running on your Mac, here is what this Wi-Fi peer-to-peer process does.
In Sapiens, Yuval Noah Harari tells the story of humankind from the rise of Homo sapiens in Africa to the present day, asking how a small ape came to rule the world.
Handy defaults write commands for com.apple.print.PrintingPrefs, controlling printing behaviour on macOS.
Sons of Anarchy is an American crime drama series. It aired on FX from 3 September 2008 to 9 December 2014. Kurt Sutter created it. Charlie Hunnam plays Jax Teller, the vice president and later president of an outlaw motorcycle club in the fictional town of Charming, California.
Monthly update 296 • December 2014 • 2014-12-01 - 2014-12-31
On 1 January 2012 I stopped using Facebook. That’s 3 years ago. I didn’t miss it for a second!
Reflection on the year 2014, checking progress of the goals, and some numbers.
The Christian view of Christmas deepens with time. Jesus birth points to Gods great love and justice.
NSUndoManager gives you full undo/redo with almost no code. While you change something, tell the undo manager how to reverse it.
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014), directed by Peter Jackson, brings the story of Bilbo Baggins and Thorin Oakenshield to its end. Martin Freeman plays Bilbo, who watches his friend lose himself to greed as armies gather at the gates of the Lonely Mountain.
Monthly update 295 • November 2014 • 2014-11-01 - 2014-11-30
In Robert Ludlum’s The Janson Option, co-authored with Douglas Corleone, Paul Janson and Jessica Kincaid head to Somalia to rescue an aid worker held by pirates.
In Personal, Reacher hunts a sniper who targeted the French president, linked to a past enemy from his Army days.
Paddington (2014), directed by Paul King, follows a young bear from Peru who arrives in London looking for a home. Ben Whishaw voices Paddington, a polite and hopeful bear who wears a red hat, loves marmalade, and believes the best of everyone he meets.
iOS 8 introduces significant updates to the Core Location framework, enhancing developer capabilities and user privacy through granular permissions, indoor positioning, and visit monitoring.
Monthly update 294 • October 2014 • 2014-10-01 - 2014-10-31