Archive for April, 2010

Blackboard theme for XCode

April 13th, 2010 - by Trevor

I love the Blackboard theme that comes with TextMate, so when I started writing Cocoa code, it wasn’t long until I decided I had to have it for XCode. And so I present “Blackboard-ish” — the pretty-much Blackboard theme for Apple’s ginormous IDE. Having it around staves off eye strain and reduces (ever-so-slightly) the existential misery I feel daily from having to write so much code in such a dumbass editor.

I’ve put it on GitHub as a Gist — you can get it here. Download the file and then put it in ~/Library/Application Support/XCode/Color Themes. Activate it in your preferences and then feel your cool factor morph to “red-hot-insane”.

If you’re wondering what Blackboard looks like, it’s like this (except the method names are supposed to be orange, dagnabit):

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class Caveman < Human
  attr_accessor :stoned_status, :good_times
 
  def init
    @stoned_status = 0
  end
 
  def smoke_weed
    @stoned_status += 1
  end
 
  def make_it_happen
    @good_times = "this is so pseudo"
  end
end

Anyway, now the color theme is out there, downloadable from the Gist, for all who want to use it in XCode. Viva Blackboard!

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