I need to store some objects in a linked list. Objective-C has a number of container classes NSArray, NSDictionary and NSSet - but I really want a linked list. As I come to Objective-C from a C++ background, I was thinking that this would be where I would use templates, so that I can store any type of in my container. But Objective-C doesn't use templates, it does however have id. read more...

Coda is a pretty good application for web development, and for a version 1.0 bit of software it's also fairly polished. However it's not excellent, and there are a couple of quirks which annoy me enough to write this:

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I do like my graphical front ends; but I am also quite partial the the unix back end of OS X. The AI of SAMRAI stands for Application Infrastructure, which means that it is essentially a lot of code that helps someone wishing to develop a parallel adaptive mesh refinement application do exactly that. Applications are built using the Makefile system; SAMRAI has a configure file, so that it can be incorporated into the developer's own Makefile.

To use Xcode with SAMRAI, it just requires modifiying some build settings, and adding some libraries. Here's what you do...

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I actually started this post around early April, but discovered that my SAMRAI install wasn't actually quite right; which took me a month or so to sort out. Eventually I got SAMRAI and a Level Set Method library working. Only now have I found time to putting some information on the web that some people might find useful.

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