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I wanted to make an status indicator bar in Cocoa that I could switch between green, yellow, and red. Here’s how to do it with the NSIndicator control.

First add the control in Interface Builder and configure it as so:

Now you can use a call like the one below to change its color:

[statusIndicator setIntValue: 1]

Here is each value you can use and the corresponding status bar:

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I’ve been struggling to make the XML build logs in our CruiseControl Dashboard legible, and finally ended up going with an XSLT transform via Greasemonkey.

Even this took a little doing, and so I thought I would share how to perform an arbitrary XSL transform on a loaded XML/XHTML document with a userscript.

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I needed to get mod_xslt working under Leopard to pretty up some raw XML CruiseControl logs, and it took a while to get things to build. We’re pretty married to the system Apache, as we use Apple’s groupware and authentication facilities. I ended up having to install some deps, add an include, and hack some Makefiles.

Here’s how…

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