Blended Cocoa

I was experimenting with methods of debug logging in Swift and came across an interesting find. If you use the __FILE__, __FUNCTION__, __LINE__ and __COLUMN__ “macros” as default function parameter values in Swift the value is set to the file, function...

I like to use CodeRunner to test out quick snippets of code. I have added Swift as a supported language. I did this by adapting the Objective-C compile.sh script that is used by CodeRunner to compile Objective-C with clang. Hopefully the next release...

With the release of Mavericks, Apple have brought the capabilities of Core Bluetooth in line with those of iOS. In particular Mavericks can now function as a peripheral thanks to the inclusion of the CBPeripheralManager class.
However, Apple have chosen not to include support for iBeacons in Mavericks. iBeacon support on iOS 7 has been implemented as part of the Core Location framework but Core Location on Mavericks doesn’t contain any iBeacon support....

Update 13th April 2013: This now works on Mountain Lion (10.8.3). Thanks to a tip, I have now worked around the problem of write-protected memory pages. See the GitHub repository for the working code.
Note: From the title of this post you will see that I ultimately failed to get the pt_deny_attach kernel module to work in Mountain Lion. This was due to write protected memory in the kernel. However, I did manage to work around the issues presented...