I’ve seen  some of my friends level really quickly and don’t have time to sit around and play the game all day so I figured it would be an interesting challange to write a bot to play the game for me. In the past I’ve used SCAR Divi in the past to write a bot for Puzzle Pirates so I think I try writing a bot for Farmville and post the results and possible the code.

It seems that the problem had something to do with a ‘#’ in either ‘#AppName_Prefix.pch’ or ‘#AppName.xcodeproj’. I renamed the Prefix header and the xcodeproject file and updated the project to reflect the new name of the prefix header then a build -> clean and voilà everything seems to be working again.

I’ve been using that script for a few months now and have added alot to it and think I should give back. I’ve packaged it up with a nice readme, posted it up on github and released it under the GPL.

Usage:

usage: /Users/trcjr/bin/opensim [ <app_name> | updateLinks <link_dir> [ Preferences | Documents | <cmd> <file> ]
ex: /Users/trcjr/bin/opensim updateLinks ~/iPhoneSimulatorApps
Creats symlinks for all installed apps in ~/iPhoneSimulatorApps
Note: <link_dir> must already exist.
ex: /Users/trcjr/bin/opensim SomeApp Preferences
Opens the Preferences folder
ex: /Users/trcjr/bin/opensim SomeApp Documents
Opens the Documents folder
ex: /Users/trcjr/bin/opensim SomeApp sqlite3 some_sqlite_database.sqlite
Opens runs sqlite3 with the full path to some_sqlite_database.sqlite as its first arguement

The README:

Opensim is a shell script that makes accessing applications on the iPhone
simulator a breeze.

Based on opensim by Craig Hockenberry

http://furbo.org/2009/03/03/open-sesame/

Examples.

opensim SomeApp Preferences
Opens the Preferences folder for SomeApp.
( ~/Library/Application Support/iPhone Simulator/User/Applications/<GUID>/SomeApp.app/Preferences )

opensim SomeApp Documents
Opens the Documents folder for SomeApp
( ~/Library/Application Support/iPhone Simulator/User/Applications/<GUID>/SomeApp.app/Documents )

opensim SomeApp sqlite3 some_sqlite_database.sqlite
Opens runs sqlite3 with the full path to some_sqlite_database.sqlite as its
first argument.
( sqlite3 ~/Library/Application Support/iPhone
Simulator/User/Applications/<GUID>/SomeApp.app/Documents/some_sqlite_database.sqlite )

Note:
If you have more than one file with the same name in two different
directories, ie db.sqlite in Documents/ and db.sqlite in SomeApp.app/
you would need to specify it by doing something like:
opensim SomeApp sqlite3 app/db.sqlite
This would open SomeApp.app/db.sqlite
opensim SomeApp sqlite3 Documents/db.sqlite
This would open SomeApp.app/Documents/db.sqlite

opensim updateLinks ~/iPhoneSimulatorApps
Creats symlinks for all installed apps in ~/iPhoneSimulatorApps
Note: <link_dir> must already exist.

I wrote some Perl to convert the the lots from the play money format into the real money format.

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use Cwd;
use File::Find;
 
my $some_dir = "Z:\\HandHistory";
my $startDir = &Cwd::cwd();
find(\&processFile, $some_dir);
exit;
 
sub processFile {
    shift;
    return if not /\.txt$/;
    my $inFileName = $_;
    my $infile = "$startDir/$File::Find::name";
    my $outfile = "$startDir/outHands/$inFileName.$$.converted.txt";
    open (inFILE, "<$infile") or die "can't open in file!: #$infile# ($!)";
    open (outFILE, ">$outfile") or die "can't open out file!:#$outfile# ($!)";
    my @players;
    while(<inFILE>) {
        chomp;
        @players = () if (s/^(PokerStars Game .*\()(\d+)\/(\d*)(\).*)$/\1\$\2.00\/\$\3.00\4/);
        push(@players, $1) if (/^Seat [\d+]: (.*) \(\d+ in chips\)/);
        foreach my $key (@players) {
            my $value = $key;
            $value =~ s/\s+/_/;
            ($value = $1) =~ s/($1)/_\1/ if ($key =~ /^(\d+)$/);
            s/$key/$value/;
        }
        s/([\( ])(\d+)([\) \.])/\1\$\2.00\3/g;
        s/\(Play Money\) //g;
 
        s/^\s+//;
        s/\s+$//;
        print outFILE "$_\n";
    }
    close(inFILE);
    close(outFILE);
}

‘Error from Debugger: Unknown packet reply: “timeout” to environment packet.’

I don’t even know where to start with that error. I’m only getting it on the iPhone 1st gen that was upgraded to beta 5. The same project builds and runs just fine on my 2.2.1 3G.

I just tried another project and it builds and runs just fine on both my beta 5 1st gen and on my 2.2.1 3G.

Anyone else getting this? How did you fix it?

I’m not a fan of CVS so its out. Never used Perforce and Subversion seems to be the easiest to get started with.

I ran svnadmin create SVNrep and the set it up in Xcode and found it gave me Error: 180001. That’s no good. After some googling I found a post by James Murty which describes the problem. It seems Xcode 3.1 isn’t compatible with versions after 1.4. I’m I’m running 1.6.1. svnadmin has a flag –pre-1.5-compatible that will create repositories that are compatible with versions less than 1.5.

After removing the previous SVNrep and running svnadmin –pre-1.5-compatible create SVNrep I now have a SVN repository that Xcode 3.1 can use.

I think the DiggBar is a throwback the internet of yesteryear. Don’t get me wrong, I see what they are trying to accomplish with it. They want to give the average Digg user a better experience. That is great. The DiggBar is not the way to do it. A better way to have the same results would be a toolbar for Firefox or Internet Explorer. Everyone wins in that case.

Things I love about iTerm.

• Fuzzy transparency for a background
• More of an Xterm like feel

Things I missed.

• Option + Delete = delete previous word

The option + delete may not seem like such a huge deal but I used it all the time. After a bit of googling I’ve  found a simple way to make it work like it should.

Open the Manage Profiles window (Bookmarks -> Manage Profiles). Select the keyboard layout you use, and make sure +Esc is selected.