The rants and ravings of a Mac developer

I Love programming, Macs, the iPhone, iPad, Apps & iOS! In my spare time I like Programming in ExtJS, PHP, MySQL / SQLite3 and Apache - in other words a Real Geek's geek. I've tinkered around with programing for iOS in the not so distant past . During the day I work for Motorola Solutions in IT as BSA for our Export Compliance system JPMorgan's TradeSphere. At night I freelance program on the Mac & Web. I'm also a techie who likes Sci-Fi and Horror. Some of my favorite authors include Stephen King, William Gibson and Frank Herbert as well as his son Brian Herbert and Kevin Anderson.

But my real passion is for Comic Book Collecting. My current freelance project is writing a web based application using ExtJS for collecting comics books. After I get the web application completed, I will be integrating some portion of the web application into a desktop client for the Mac through the use of web services for all data exchange & transaction. Eventually, the web site & Mac client would also include a social networking component as well as an iOS component.

I started collecting comic books as a kid when my grandfather passed away and we found my father's comic book collection when we were cleaning out my grandfather's basement. There were a number of early issues in that stash, such as Fantastic Four number one, The Amazing Spider-Man number one, number 22 of the Uncanny X-Men... and others. So needless to say, I was hooked.

After high school I stopped collecting - college, drinking and woman took priority (not necessarily in that order) over visiting the local comic book shop. Now that I have 2 kids of my own, I've gotten back into collecting.

Xcode - Changing the Default Company Name

If you use Xcode to create your source code file, you’ll notice that it nicely places a comment block at the top of the file for you that contains the file name, project name, author, creation date and a copy write notice that contains your company name.

By default it takes the company name from your address book entry. But if this does not suit your tastes and would like to change it, but also want to keep the company name in your address book entry, then here is the solution…

In terminal type (all on one line):

defaults write com.apple.Xcode PBXCustomTemplateMacroDefinitions 
'{"ORGANIZATIONNAME" = "<your company name here>";}'

The copy write notice then would appear like this:

Copyright <year> <your company name>. All rights reserved.

Watch out for the trailing period after company name, especially if you use a URL.