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Mario Kart Wii Friend Code

In their mysterious wisdom, Nintendo have elected not to release Super Smash Bros Brawl for the Wii in the UK until June 1st, even though it was released in the US on March 9th. However, while the US has to wait until April 27th for Mario Kart Wii, the UK got it yesterday (April 11th). Lauren and I picked up a copy today (using the deal in Game stores where you get the Mario Kart + Nintendo Wheel pack, plus a third-party Game-branded wheel all for £40).

My Mario Kart Wii Friend Code is 1590-4853-7385 (Matt, UK), so feel free to add me and post your own MK Friend Code in the comments here. Only two rules, if I may:

• Say a little bit about yourself. I like to know something about those I’m adding to my Friend Roster. Waivers willingly offered to those I clearly already know, or talk to on Twitter fifty times a day. ;)
• No “I added all you guys above, please add me!” posts, please - this isn’t intended to be a forum.

Hopefully I’ll see you on Luigi Circuit… and beyond. I’ll be the one biting his wheel-controller and unsportingly calling you a CHEAT-HOLE.

Random Errors

I put together a simple little web app today to return a random (and almost always silly) error message: Random Errors! (Note: the domain is randomerrors.com but if the DNS hasn’t quite resolved in your part of the world yet, you can also access it from errors.instinctivecode.com.)

You can browse them, add your own, or fetch them into your own desktop or web application (by loading the contents of the “no formatting” URL). You can also click the error-number to go a permalink for each error, in case you want to link people to your favourite errors.

Just a bit of fun on a Friday. :)

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MGTwitterEngine and MGViewAnimation updated

A couple of updates to some of my source code; details below. MGViewAnimation updated code is available via the source code page as usual and the latest MGTwitterEngine code is in the public Subversion repository at http://svn.cocoasourcecode.com/.

(Please do get my code from the repository if it’s available there, because I don’t guarantee to update the zip files in a timely manner for code which is also in the repo, but the repo is always up to date. Thanks!)

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FolderSweep source code

Some new source code for you, this time from my esteemed colleague Rainer “RBSplitView” Brockerhoff, in collusion with myself. The code is called FolderSweep, and in a nutshell it shows you how to recursively traverse a folder-hierarchy really quickly (faster than using NSFileManager) and in a controlled way, optionally also memory-mapping the contents of files and providing them to your delegate object.

The code shows how to:

• Easily set up a FolderSweeper in a given folder (choosing whether to follow symlinks/aliases or not).
• Approve or reject further processing of files/folders as necessary.
• Determine whether a given file conforms to a given UTI (Uniform Type Identifier), in this case text.
• Retrieve the memory-mapped contents of files.
• Perform text encoding-detection (or sniffing) to determine how to interpret the text file.
• And quite probably more.

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iPhone Development

I’m seriously excited about the iPhone SDK. You should be too. Whether or not you actually own an iPhone or an iPod Touch, the SDK is potentially huge for OS X developers, and for the platform as a whole.

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