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Visual Studio 2013 – Visualizers

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One of very useful feature of Visual Studio is custom variables views. It’s possible to configure own views to each of your class. For this, VS2013 (and VS2012) uses .natvis files located in following directories:

%VSINSTALLDIR%\Common7\Packages\Debugger\Visualizers
%USERPROFILE%\My Documents\Visual Studio 2013\Visualizers

Files are stored in common .xml format and has following format:

<AutoVisualizer xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/vstudio/debugger/natvis/2010">
  <Type Name="String::CStringHolder&lt;String::string_trait&lt;char&gt; &gt;">
    <DisplayString>{m_pszData,s8}</DisplayString>
    <StringView>m_pszData</StringView>
    <Expand>
      <Item Name="[m_pszData]">m_pszData</Item>
      <Item Name="[nDataLength]">m_pStringData->nDataLength</Item>
      <Item Name="[nAllocLength]">m_pStringData->nAllocLength</Item>
      <Item Name="[nRefs]">m_pStringData->nRefs</Item>
    </Expand>
  </Type>
</AutoVisualizer>

Debugging .natvis files

Visual studio contains a way how to catch syntax and logical errors in natvis format. All warnings/errors can be displayed to Visual Studio output panel by specifying following registry key to “1”.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\12.0_Config\Debugger
"EnableNatvisDiagnostics"=dword:00000001

Note: It’s necessary to restart Visual studio to turn on this feature

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Code signing certificate for windows

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We encounter several problems when we tried to deploy our new version of ORM Designer – Skipper to our new web site skipper18.com. Although new Skipper installer is very simmilar to ORM Designer installer, when downloading this exe-file from the new site  we are getting this error:

installer.exe is not commonly downloaded and could harm your computer

IE_No_Digital_Signature

 

The problem is somewhere in chrome/IE when evaluating downloaded file. Probably combination of new site, new executable and new name of product is the problem.

To fix this issue, we decided to sign-in installer and application executable by Code-signing certificate. There are a lot of certificate providers and the costs are very different. A lot of providers are selling these certificate for around $500/year. Fortunately it’s possible to found certificates also for $75 – $95/year. The cheapest one is from tucows.com but based on the site and additional tools I decided for ksoftware.net, The price $95/year isn’t so different but they offer also command line and GUI signing tool for their certificates called kSign.

Order process

Fill your company details, pay with paypal and wait until someone from Comodo will contact you with additional details. It’s necessary to have the same contact information on the domain registration as on certificate registration. It is also necessary to have company registered in one of publicly available lists with the same company information as on certificate registration.

Next step is a validation through phone call. It is a quick call when you confirm registration info through the call in order to verify your phone number. Phone call is the last necessary step and then you receive email with certificate:

Windows developer certificate

Usage

Signing of the application and installer is pretty easy. K-Software offers two applications for this purposes. The first one is with GUI, second one is command line based. Both applications need only few parameters like where the certificate is stored, certificate password, application description, link and executable location:

kSign

Command line application is executed through following command:

kSignCMD.exe /d "Skipper application" /du "http://www.skipper18.com" /f PATH\certificate.pfx /p PASSWORD PATH\Skipper.exe

And that’s all. Now if you checked your executable through properties in Windows explorer, you see that your application is correctly signed:

Signed application

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How to configure S3 domain alias on web with cloudflare

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We’re using S3 as a storage for releases of Skipper (originally ORM Designer). It’s a good and fast solution, but links to downloads aren’t so pretty:

https://s3.amazonaws.com/downloads.skipper18.com/Skipper-3.0.0.1024-Windows-all-32bit.exe

but what we want is something like this :

https://downloads.skipper18.com/Skipper-3.0.0.1094-Windows-all-32bit.exe

The solution is pretty simply. The only necessary thing is to create bucket on S3 with the same name link domain where the downloads will be available:

S3 bucket

and then configure new CNAME in cloudflare:

S3 alias

type: CNAME
name: downloads.skipper18.com
alias: downloads.skipper18.com.s3.amazonaws.com

And that’s all. Domain should be ready within fews seconds.

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How to fix Lenovo R61 graphics card? With FIRE! ;-)

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Last night my Lenovo R61 seemed to be dead. It doesn’t want to boot up and the only thing I saw was this screen with some black/white lines:

R61 broken graphics card

I started googling this problem and it looks like this issue is quite common for this type. But then in the middle of the night I found the solution that I hadn’t believed it could work. But as the notebook still wasn’t running, I said to myself that there is nothing to lose.

Here is the magic. It’s sufficient to heat nvidia chip by a flame for about 15sec.

First of all, it’s necessary to disassemble notebook and detach heatpipe:

Lenovo R61 dissasembled

R61 dissasembled

After that you need to cover the rest of notebook except nvidia chip:

R61 nvidia fix

And as last step use any torch to heat chip to 700C for about 15s:

R61 fix tool - torch

And that’s it. Now assemble notebook back (if it is possible :-)) and run it:

R61 assembled and back online

Here are two videos from youtube:


How to change plist value on MacOS 10.9+

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When .plist file is manually updated on MacOS 10.9+, changes are not directly applied to plist cache. This means that  these changes aren’t visible to executed application (even if you run it after plist change).

It’s necessary to tell plist change to reload this settings. There are two ways how to do it. First one is simpler but doesn’t work if you completely remove .plist file:

defaults read ~/Library/Preferences/com.xxx.xxx.xxx

Second method is much more efficient, but requires to completely kill plist cache. This cache is immediately executed again and during this launch all plist files are scanned and loaded again:

kill cfprefsd

Qt app crash on mac when executed with parameters

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Our reporting tool occasional crashed on MacOs when was executed with several command line params. Command looked like this:

/app-path/OrmDesigner2 -crash-report -dump-directory /var/folders/4z/k1r35jnn4v77mzl7hzf8wvvw0000gn/T/OrmDesigner2/CrashReports

When inspecting exception report, we found following stack trace:

Thread 0 Crashed:  Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
0   QtCore                         0x0000000100d671da QString::fromLocal8Bit(char const*, int) + 42
1   QtCore                         0x0000000100e72dac QCoreApplication::arguments() + 124
2   QtGui                          0x00000001000de8ef -[QCocoaApplicationDelegate application:openFiles:] + 223
3   com.apple.AppKit               0x00007fff805f3b52 -[NSApplication(NSAppleEventHandling) _handleAEOpenDocumentsForURLs:] + 505
4   com.apple.AppKit               0x00007fff804c0065 -[NSApplication(NSAppleEventHandling) _handleCoreEvent:withReplyEvent:] + 217
5   com.apple.Foundation           0x00007fff800f90d6 -[NSAppleEventManager dispatchRawAppleEvent:withRawReply:handlerRefCon:] + 360
6   com.apple.Foundation           0x00007fff800f8f06 _NSAppleEventManagerGenericHandler + 114
7   com.apple.AE                   0x00007fff82b1c32b aeDispatchAppleEvent(AEDesc const*, AEDesc*, unsigned int, unsigned char*) + 162
8   com.apple.AE                   0x00007fff82b1c224 dispatchEventAndSendReply(AEDesc const*, AEDesc*) + 32
9   com.apple.AE                   0x00007fff82b1c12b aeProcessAppleEvent + 210
10  com.apple.HIToolbox            0x00007fff875ed619 AEProcessAppleEvent + 48
11  com.apple.AppKit               0x00007fff803c5095 _DPSNextEvent + 1191
12  com.apple.AppKit               0x00007fff803c4801 -[NSApplication nextEventMatchingMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] + 155
13  com.apple.AppKit               0x00007fff8038a68f -[NSApplication run] + 395
14  QtGui                          0x00000001000e7c04 QEventDispatcherMac::processEvents(QFlags) + 1588
15  QtCore                         0x0000000100e70774 QEventLoop::processEvents(QFlags) + 68
16  QtCore                         0x0000000100e70a94 QEventLoop::exec(QFlags) + 180
17  QtCore                         0x0000000100e720bc QCoreApplication::exec() + 188
18  com.inventic.ormdesigner       0x0000000100003447 main + 46 (main.cpp:31)
19  com.inventic.ormdesigner       0x00000001000032e0 start + 52

After some google-searching I found out that the problem is in core of our application. When subclassing Qt QApplication, it’s necessary to pass argc with reference, not by value. So after adding one little &, everything works like charm!

//construct application object
CApplication(int& argc, char **argv);

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Using ssh as proxy/tunnel between Mac OS and Linux

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How to connect to remote computer with private key by using ssh:

#register private key
ssh-add ~/dev/Private/ludek_vodicka_dsa.openssh

#connect to computer and forward local port to remote computer and remote port
ssh my-computer.com -p PORT -lUSER -L LOCAL_PORT:REMOTE_COMPUTER:REMOTE_PORT

#connect to computer and create SOCKS proxy on port SOCKS_PORT
ssh my-computer.com -p PORT -lUSER -D SOCKS_PORT

Note:

If your private key was created for Windows, it will probably not work on linux/mac. It’s necessary to convert it by using puttygen (on mac or windows). You need to open it by puttygen and choose “Save as openssh” from menu.

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42 interesting wireframing tools

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These days we are working on new ORM Designer websites and with it comes a problem: find ideal wireframing tool which will help us with designing the structure of new web. Our requirements were an intuitive multiplatform system that is freeware or low cost. So we’ve done a researche and made a list of 42 wireframing tools.

What are actually the wireframes? Wireframes are basic illustrations of the structure and components of web site or application and they are also called blueprints or skeletons.  If you are creating some web project, you need to attract users not only by design, but also with intuitive functionality and user-friendly solution.

Facebook wall wireframe example from Flairbuilder
Facebook wall wireframe example from Flairbuilder

Wireframes also improve communication between developers and clients, because clients can be provided with a series of sketched screenshots or a mock interface they can try before they’re coded so it eliminates misunderstandings on both sides.

You can create wireframes by hand on real paper, but there are plenty of tools for creating them. Here is list of 42 interesting tools for wireframing:

Axure RP

www.axure.com
Axure RP gives you the wireframing, prototyping and specification tools needed to make informed design choices, persuade any skeptics, get your design built to spec… and maybe win a few fans along the way. Choose the Standard edition for prototyping or go Pro to add documentation and collaboration features.

Available for platforms: Windows, Mac OS X
Price: from $289
Free Version: 30 day free trial

Balsamiq

www.balsamiq.com
Balsamiq is a wireframing and mock up tool with a high focus on usability. You can quickly come up with mock ups and easily share them with your clients.

Available for platforms: Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, On-line, plugin for Google Drive
Price: Desktop $79, On-line $12/Month, Google Drive plugin $5/Month
Free Version: Desktop 7 day free trial, on-line 30 day free trial, Google Drive 30 day free trial

Cacoo

www.cacoo.com
Free and user friendly online drawing tool that allows you to create a variety of diagrams such as site map, flowchart, mind map, wire frame, UML diagram and network diagram

Available for platforms: On-line, Google Chrome extension
Price: from $4.95/Month, $49/Year
Free Version: Free limited version (only 3 PNG exports, only 25lists)

FlairBuilder

www.flairbuilder.com
FlairBuilder is a prototyping tool that lets you create interactive wireframes for websites and mobile applications. It’s easy to learn and use, and comes with lots of options.

Available for platforms: Windows, Mac OS X, Linux (requires Adobe AIR)
Price: $99
Free Version: 15 day free trial

ForeUI

www.foreui.com
ForeUI is an easy-to-use UI prototyping tool, designed to create mockup / wireframe / prototypes for any application or website you have in mind. With ForeUI, your prototype project will be skinnable, since you can easily change the style of your prototype by simply switching the UI theme. You can even design the behavior of prototypes by defining intuitive flow charts to handle specific events. Your prototype can then be exported to wireframe images, PDF documents or HTML5 simulation.

Available for platforms: Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris
Price: $150
Free Version: 15 day free trial, on-line demo

FrameBox

framebox.org
Lightweight online tool for creating and sharing mockups (wireframes). Easy, fast and free to use.

Available for platforms: On-line
Price: FREE

Gliffy

www.gliffy.com
Professional-quality flowcharts, org charts, UML diagrams, network diagrams, wireframes, technical drawings and more. Gliffy is an online application that makes it easy for you to create, share, and collaborate with diagrams. It looks and feels like a desktop application, but it works through your web browser, so there is nothing to install or maintain.

Available for platforms: On-line, Google Chrome extension
Price: from $4.95/Month or $47.88/Year
Free Version: Free limited version (5 diagrams, 2 MB storage space, no Visio Import, no Google Drive Integration, no private diagrams)

HotGloo

www.hotgloo.com
HotGloo is an online, interactive wireframing & prototyping tool. HotGloo makes it easy to wireframe web and mobile sites and to cooperate with team members. HotGloo is web-based and therefore platform and terminal independent. The program has a user-friendly style and a high standard of interactivity.

Available for platforms: On-line
Price: from $7/Month
Free Version: 15 day free trial

iMockups for iPad

www.endloop.ca/imockups
iMockups for iPad is the premiere mobile wireframing and mockup app for your web, iPhone and iPad projects. The ease and mobility of an iPad app with the power of a desktop app at your fingertips.

Available for platforms: iOS
Price: $6.99
Free Version: –

Indigo studio

www.infragistics.com/products/indigo-studio
Indigo Studio – the fastest UI prototyping and interaction design tool – helps you quickly and simply explore and create functional, animated UI prototypes while maintaining the focus on user experience at every step. With Indigo Studio you can create storyboards with over 100 different scenes, wireframes with built-in interactive controls, and prototypes for your desktop, web, and mobile apps – all with no coding necessary!

Available for platforms: Windows, Mac OS X
Price: from $495
Free Version: 30 day free trial

InVisionApp

www.invisionapp.com
InVision lets you transform your designs into beautiful, interactive web & mobile mockups and prototypes

Available for platforms: On-line
Price: from $15/Month
Free Version: Free limited version (1 project)

iPlotz

iplotz.com
iPlotz allows you to rapidly create clickable, navigable mockups and wireframes for prototyping websites and software applications. Create a project, add wireframe pages with design components and discuss your creations with others.

Available for platforms: On-line, Desktop (requires flash)
Price: On-line from $15/Month, $99/Year; Desktop $75
Free Version: Free limited version (Online use of 1 project, limited to 5 wireframe pages)

JustInMind

www.justinmind.com
Justinmind Prototyper is an authoring tool for software prototypes and high-fidelity website wireframes.

Available for platforms: Windows, Mac OS X
Price: $29/Month
Free Version: Free limited version (Export to interactive HTML is not allowed), 30 day free trial

Lovely charts

lovelycharts.com
Online diagramming application that allows to create professional looking diagrams, such as flowcharts, sitemaps, organisation charts, …

Available for platforms: On-line, Windows, Linux, iOS, Google Chrome extension
Price: Desktop: 59€, On-line: 29€/Year, iOS: 4.99€
Free Version: Desktop demo (saving and opening options are disabled), On-line demo (save one editable diagram at the time within your account, create and export as many diagrams as you need)

Mockflow

www.mockflow.com
MockFlow WireframePro is a web-based tool to design and collaborate user interface blueprints for websites and software. Its helps to visualize the website’s interface, navigation and structure in short time.

Available for platforms: On-line, Mac OS X, Windows (requires Adobe AIR)
Price: from $69/Year (for all apps)
Free Version: Free limited version (1 Designer License, 1 Project in each App, 2 Co-Editors per Project, 1 GB of Cloud Storage, Project Restrictions)

Mocking pal

play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sharkear.penmockups
Mocking Pal is a mobile app that allows you to create mockups/wireframes of a website or an application. You can create wireframes on the run, share them with colleagues and get early feedback. It saves you a lot of time, so you can iterate even faster and try new concepts before committing to a design.

Available for platforms: Android
Price: FREE

Mockingbird

gomockingbird.com
Online tool that makes it easy for you to create, link together, preview, and share mockups of your website or application

Available for platforms: On-line
Price: from $ 9/Month
Free Version: Free limited version (1 project with 10 pages; 2 users; no archived project)

Mockup Builder

mockupbuilder.com
Mockup Builder is a prototyping solution that helps design software or websites while reducing the time and cost spent on the negotiation stage. Identify your requirements and get the job done right!

Available for platforms: Windows, Google Chrome extension
Price: $7/Month
Free Version: On-line demo

Mockup Designer

fatiherikli.github.io/mockup-designer
The mockup tool that uses your local storage as backend.

Available for platforms: On-line
Price: FREE

Mockups for Android

play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.welant.mockups
Mockups for Android is a vector-based sketch wireframing tool for website prototyping and creating UI design concepts. With Mockups for Android editor you can experiment with concepts and sketch visual prototypes in minutes on your Android tablet or phone! Share mockups with your team, development community or clents.

Available for platforms: Android
Price: $4.99
Free Version: Free Lite version

Mockups.me

mockups.me
A collaborative, interactive UI wireframing application for any device and platform. Mockups.Me enables you to sketch, review, and iterate your application user interfaces – fast.

Available for platforms: On-line, Mac OS X, Windows, Linux, Android, iOS
Price: Desktop $49, On-line  from $99/Year, Android $19.99, iOS $19.99
Free Version: Desktop 30 day free trial; On-line live web demo (cannot create files but can view and edit files shared with you by others); Android free lite version (no save and export functionality)

MockupScreens

www.mockupscreens.com
Easy mockup tool. Create five screens in ten minutes without any programming knowledge or prior training!

Available for platforms: Windows, Mac OS X
Price: $99.95
Free Version: 30 day free trial

Moqups

moqups.com
On-line HTML5 App for creating high fidelity, resolution independent SVG mockups and wireframes. Realtime Collaboration, PDF/PNG Export, …

Available for platforms: On-line, Google Chrome extension
Price: from 9€/Month, 99€/Year
Free Version: Free on-line version (2 active projects and 5 MB of image storage)

MS Visio

visio.microsoft.com
Microsoft Visio is a diagramming and vector graphics application and is part of the Microsoft Office suite. The main focus aren’t wireframes, it is a universal tool.

Available for platforms: Windows
Price: from $599.95
Free Version: 30 day free trial

OmniGraffle

www.omnigroup.com/omnigraffle
OmniGraffle can help you make eye-popping graphic documents quickly by keeping lines connected to shapes even when they’re moved, providing powerful styling tools, importing and exporting Microsoft Visio files, and magically organizing diagrams with just one click. Whether you need a quick sketch or an epic technical figure, OmniGraffle keeps it gorgeously understandable.

Available for platforms: Mac OS X, iOS
Price: Mac OS X $99.99, iOS $49.99
Free Version: –

Pencil Project

pencil.evolus.vn
Pencil is built for the purpose of providing a free and open-source GUI prototyping tool that people can easily install and use to create mockups in popular desktop platforms.

Available for platforms: Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, Firefox extension
Price: FREE

Pidoco

pidoco.com
Web-based prototyping software for rapidly creating clickable wireframes and UI prototypes for web, mobile and enterprise applications. It’s easy to use with smart sharing and collaboration features, a convenient specification generator, exports and much more.

Available for platforms: On-line
Price: from $4.49/Month
Free Version: 31 day free trial

POP (Prototyping on paper)

popapp.in
Hand-drawn wireframes to tappable app prototypes! POP helps you make interactive prototype with ease. If you can draw, you can design apps.

Available for platforms: Android, iOS
Price: FREE

Power Mockup

www.powermockup.com
PowerMockup provides templates and tools for building wireframes right in PowerPoint.

Available for platforms: Powerpoint extension
Price: from $59.95
Free Version: Free trial version

PowerWIREFRAME

power-story.com/create-wireframes-in-powerpoint-with-powerwireframe
PowerWIREFRAME is a plugin for PowerPoint that makes it easy to create UI Wireframes in PowerPoint, by dragging and dropping UI Controls from a robust searchable library onto your slides.

Available for platforms: Powerpoint extension
Price: $59.99
Free Version: Free trial version

Proto.io

Proto.io
Proto.io is a UI prototyping tool specifically tailored for mobile and tablet applications. The web based environment allows you to start off by creating a project for iPhone, iPad, Android phones or tablets.

Available for platforms: On-line
Price: from $24/Month
Free Version: 15 day free trial

ProtoShare

www.protoshare.com
ProtoShare is an easy-to-use, collaborative prototyping tool that helps teams visualize requirements with website wireframes and interactive prototypes while working together in real-time.

Available for platforms: On-line
Price: from $29/Month
Free Version: 30 day free trial (without export functionality)

QuirkTools – Wires

quirktools.com/wires
Wires lets you build interactive wireframes right in your web browser

Available for platforms: On-line
Price: $10/Month, $84/Year
Free Version: Free limited version (3 total projects across all Quirk apps)

Realizer

realizerapp.com
The Realizer lets you easily create interactive presentation prototypes of iPhone and iPad apps. By transforming the traditional app presentation into an interactive one, you can better communicate your vision with a rewarding user experience.

Available for platforms: iOS
Price: FREE

RWD Wireframes

www.lifeishao.com/rwdwire
This tool is made so designers can more easily design for responsive web pages. You can save and share your wireframe, or export it to html and css. It’s completely free and open source.

Available for platforms: On-line
Price: FREE

SketchyPad

sketchyapp.com
App for website sketching and apps interface making, including iPhone and iPad apps. This app will make designers, programmers and interface designers life much easier. Easy-to-use interface and a lot of various stencils will help you to mockup any web sites and soft interfaces.

Available for platforms: iOS
Price: $4.99
Free Version: –

Solidify

www.solidifyapp.com
Solidify lets you create clickable prototypes from sketches, wireframe, or mockup. Validate user flows on any device by performing user tests in person, remotely or on your testers own time to get the feedback you need.

Available for platforms: On-line
Price: from $19/Month
Free Version: 30 day free trial

UXpin

uxpin.com
Complex tools for UX designers – Notepads full of sticky notes for rapid paper prototyping. Wireframing App able to auto-convert paper prototypes into digital wireframes.

Available for platforms: On-line
Price: $14.99/Month
Free Version: 30 day free trial

UXToolbox

www.softandgui.co.uk
The all-in-one rapid Wireframing and Application Prototyping solution. Designed for beginners and experts alike, UXToolbox has all the tools and features you need to create great looking and fully functional Wireframes and Mock-ups all within one easy-to-use solution.

Available for platforms: Windows
Price: L159
Free Version: 14 day free trial

Wireframe.cc

wireframe.cc
Smart, swift and minimal app, extremely easy to use. All created wireframes get a unique URL, that you can easily bookmark, share and edit later.

Available for platforms: On-line, Google Chrome extension
Price: from $12/Month or $120/Year
Free Version: Free limited version (can save, but can’t export; without multi-page wireframes and some other features); 7 day trial of full version

WireframeSketcher

wireframesketcher.com
WireframeSketcher is a wireframing tool that helps designers, developers and product managers quickly create wireframes, mockups and prototypes for desktop, web and mobile applications. It’s a desktop app and a plug-in for any Eclipse IDE.

Available for platforms: Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Plugin for Eclipse IDE
Price: $99
Free Version: 14 day free trial

Wirify

www.wirify.com
Wirify is a bookmarklet that lets you turn any web page into a wireframe in one click.

Available for platforms: On-line
Price: $7/1 credit
Free Version: Free limited version (Export and edit wireframes not allowed)

The end result

Every tool is useful for something and someone else. For cooperation with global project manager you will choose different tool than for individual work of UX specialist freelancer. Also each of us have different personal preferences as operating system, price, appearance and more. So the best choice is yours.

None of the above listed tools fit our requirements. Only Mockups.me is multiplatfom tool, but costs a lot (especially if you want to use it for Android, Windows and OS X at the same time). So, we decided to lower our requirements and now we are testing some free online tools.

Do you use wireframes or think that work is easier without them? Which tools do you recommend? Do you know another interesting tool that missing?

VS2010 always rebuilding moc files on Qt

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My VS2010 on every build always recreate all .moc files and associated .cpp files. Problem was in incredibuild clausule during compilation of my Qt libraries.

 

      <AdditionalInputs Condition="'$(Configuration)|$(Platform)'=='Debug|Win32'">Rem;axApplication\axAppException\dialogUnhandledException.ui;%(AdditionalInputs)</AdditionalInputs>
      <Command Condition="'$(Configuration)|$(Platform)'=='Debug|Win32'">Rem IncrediBuild_AllowRemote &#x000D;&#x000A;if errorlevel 1 goto VCEnd&#x000D;&#x000A; Rem IncrediBuild_OutputFile ..\GeneratedFiles\ui_dialogUnhandledException.h &#x000D;&#x000A;if errorlevel 1 goto VCEnd&#x000D;&#x000A; Q:\ExternalLibraries\qt-git-32bit\bin\uic.exe axApplication\axAppException\dialogUnhandledException.ui -o ..\GeneratedFiles\ui_dialogUnhandledException.h</Command>
      <Message Condition="'$(Configuration)|$(Platform)'=='Debug|Win32'">UIC axApplication\axAppException\dialogUnhandledException.ui</Message>
      <Outputs Condition="'$(Configuration)|$(Platform)'=='Debug|Win32'">..\GeneratedFiles\ui_dialogUnhandledException.h;%(Outputs)</Outputs>

instead of

      <AdditionalInputs Condition="'$(Configuration)|$(Platform)'=='Debug|Win32'">Q:\ExternalLibraries\qt-4.8.2-32bit\bin\uic.exe;axApplication\axAppException\dialogUnhandledException.ui;%(AdditionalInputs)</AdditionalInputs>
      <Command Condition="'$(Configuration)|$(Platform)'=='Debug|Win32'">Q:\ExternalLibraries\qt-4.8.2-32bit\bin\uic.exe axApplication\axAppException\dialogUnhandledException.ui -o ..\GeneratedFiles\ui_dialogUnhandledException.h</Command>
      <Message Condition="'$(Configuration)|$(Platform)'=='Debug|Win32'">UIC axApplication\axAppException\dialogUnhandledException.ui</Message>
      <Outputs Condition="'$(Configuration)|$(Platform)'=='Debug|Win32'">..\GeneratedFiles\ui_dialogUnhandledException.h;%(Outputs)</Outputs>

Although qmake added all these incredibuild defines to my VS project, Incredibuild still doesn’t compile it in parallel so it was totally useless. The most simply way is edit incredibuild_xge.prf and turn-off it.

mkspecs\features\incredibuild_xge.prf 

contains(TEMPLATE, "XXXvc.*") {

How to enable VS2010 logging

Qt on OSX Maverick – Undefined symbols for architecture x86_64

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The problem is that starting with OSX 10.9 Apple changed default standard c++ library from libstdc++ to libc++.

Qt binary distribution compile with -stdlib=libstdc++ to be compatible with 10.6, Xcode 5 on 10.9 will select -stdlib=libc++ by default (for OS X 10.7 and better only). So symbol using classes from the standard library (like std::string in this case) will not resolve correctly at link time.

Undefined symbols for architecture x86_64:
"boost::filesystem::path_traits::convert(char const*, char const*, std::basic_string&lt;wchar_t, std::char_traits&lt;wchar_t&gt;, std::allocator&lt;wchar_t&gt; &gt;&amp;, std::codecvt&lt;wchar_t, char, __mbstate_t&gt; const&amp;)", referenced from:
boost::filesystem::path::wstring(std::codecvt&lt;wchar_t, char, __mbstate_t&gt; const&amp;) const in filePath.o
boost::filesystem::path::wstring(std::codecvt&lt;wchar_t, char, __mbstate_t&gt; const&amp;) const in fileEnumerator.o
boost::filesystem::path::wstring(std::codecvt&lt;wchar_t, char, __mbstate_t&gt; const&amp;) const in directoryHelper.test.o

So it’s necessary to compile all libraries with one type of libstdc++ (or libc++). Because I need to keep 10.6 compatibility, it’s necessary to compile boost and other libraries with libstdc++ dependency.

To check which library is used, use otool tool:

otool -L library.dylib

As result you will get something like this (check /libc++1.dylib):

otool -L boost/lib/libboost_filesystem.dylib
boost/lib/libboost_filesystem.dylib:
	boost/lib/libboost_filesystem.dylib (compatibility version 0.0.0, current version 0.0.0)
	boost/lib/libboost_system.dylib (compatibility version 0.0.0, current version 0.0.0)
	/usr/lib/libc++.1.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 120.0.0)
	/usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1197.1.1)

How to fix it for boost

it’s necessary to recompile boost (and don’t forget to remove ./bin.v2 directory) with these params:

  ./b2 cxxflags="-stdlib=libstdc++" linkflags="-stdlib=libstdc++" ...

and run otool again:

boost/lib/libboost_filesystem.dylib:
	boost/lib/libboost_filesystem.dylib (compatibility version 0.0.0, current version 0.0.0)
	boost/lib/libboost_system.dylib (compatibility version 0.0.0, current version 0.0.0)
	/usr/lib/libstdc++.6.dylib (compatibility version 7.0.0, current version 60.0.0)
	/usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1197.1.1)

How to fix it for CMake libraries

In case you’re using library which is built by CMake system, you  need to add following flag:

cmake -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS="-stdlib=libstdc++"

How to fix other libraries

For any other library it’s necessary to pass libstdc++ flag in any available way, for example modify makefile and add :

CXXFLAGS = -stdlib=libstdc++

Second way how to fix it, compile app using latest compiler

Another way is to update mkspecs to compile for latest MacOS version, after that, compiler will be the same like compiler used on all other libraries. To do that, it’s necessary to update file:

/usr/local/Qt-5.3.1/mkspecs/macx-clang/qmake.conf

and change following line:

QMAKE_MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET = 10.6

to latest 10.9 version:

QMAKE_MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET = 10.9

More info about this process check here:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20342896/solved-qt5-1-qt5-2-mac-os-10-9-mavericks-xcode-5-0-2-undefined-symbols

And that’s all

Hope this post saves you a lot of time I have to spent by searching these answers 😉

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How to customize default terminal prompt which looks like this?

ComputerName Directory UserName$

simply define PS1 variable with required format. To display only full path, use following:

export PS1="\w $"
  • \d – date
  • \t – time
  • \h – hostname
  • \# – command number
  • \u – username
  • \W – current directory (e.g.: Desktop)
  • \w – current directory path (e.g.: /Users/Admin/Desktop)

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