{"id":2755,"date":"2015-05-10T15:00:48","date_gmt":"2015-05-10T20:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeconley.ca\/blog\/?p=2755"},"modified":"2023-12-20T16:25:10","modified_gmt":"2023-12-20T21:25:10","slug":"things-ive-learned-this-week-may-4-may-8-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeconley.ca\/blog\/2015\/05\/10\/things-ive-learned-this-week-may-4-may-8-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Things I’ve Learned This Week (May 4 – May 8, 2015)"},"content":{"rendered":"

How to convert an NSString to a Gecko nsAString<\/h2>\n

I actually discovered this during my most recent Joy of Coding episode<\/a> – there is a static utility method to convert between native Cocoa NSStrings and Gecko nsAStrings – nsCocoaUtils::GetStringForNSString. Very handy, and works exactly as advertised.<\/p>\n

An “Attach to Process by pid” Keyboard Shortcut for XCode<\/h2>\n

I actually have colleague Garvan Keeley to thank for this one, and technically I learned this on April 24th. It was only this week that I remembered<\/em> I had learned it!<\/p>\n

When I’m debugging Firefox on OS X, I tend to use XCode, and I usually attach to Firefox after it has started running. I have to navigate some menus in order to bring up the dialog to attach to a process by pid, and I was getting tired of doing that over and over again.<\/p>\n

So, as usual, I tweeted my frustration:<\/p>\n

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Dear lazyweb – is there an XCode keyboard shortcut for “Attach to Process” > “By Process Identifier (PID) or Name”? Mousing it blows.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Mike Conley (@mike_conley) April 24, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n