DevGypsy

Well, it’s been a long time since i posted. I havnt really felt like putting anything up here. 🙂 But the past couple months i’ve been going through and updating the look of a bunch of sites see here and and here. When I finally got around to updating the theme on this blog, I realised just how long it’s been since i wrote anything. Which is not such a bad thing, I’m pretty sure no one even reads this. haha. I pretty much just use the blog to save some ideas and document some things ive struggled with, to re-reference them if i need them.

So, I have a macOS project I’m currently working on where I wanted to add some polish to the app in the form of Quick Look file previews. Im building the app with Swift, and couldn’t find any nice examples of doing this. All of the samples I found online are written in Objective-C. The implementation is not at all difficult, but I figured, since I hadn’t posted in a while - I thought write a quick blog post. So here we are. 🙂

I’m a big fan of Open Source software, and if it wasn’t for the fact that I have bills to pay - I would likely open source all my apps.

Background

So I actually had my first taste of programming in New Zealand way back in the early 1980’s. Mum was a very forward thinking women and spent way too much money buying an Apple II clone, from the local Tech chain Dick Smith. Dick Smith is still going strong by the way, but has evolved into more of an electronics retailer than the hobby store it used to be.

I recently updated my install of PostgreSQL to v14 with Homebrew, and thought this small tutorial might help others. And it will obviously help me when it comes time to update again!

Introduction

If you’re running macOS and are doing any kind of development work, and aren’t using Homebrew - you really should take a look. It’s a package manager which allows for quick and easy installation and updating of many common packages. It’s super easy to install:

I’ve wanted to update Postgres for some time now, as Plesk Obsidian currently only installs version 10 by default. I also thought this would be a whole lot more difficult than it actually was. And with the release of Postgres v14, I figured this was as good a time as any to get stuck in.