@1aura =>  add blog post around building a plugin

Hiya :sun_with_face: 
Yes, doing this on github is hard. Editing text is different than editing
code.


On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 2:09 PM, Brennan Moore <notifications@github.com>
wrote:

> In source/_posts/2014-06-17-building-the-xcode-plugin-snapshots.markdown:
>
> > +blog-url: http://orta.github.io
> > +---
> > +
> > +I'm the kind of guy who thinks better tooling means better outcomes. Whilst I don't believe in going out and buying the best until you're sure you'll be using it, if the best isn't available I guess it becomes time to build it yourself. It's this attitude that lead to my work on [CocoaDocs.org](http://cocoadocs.org), and then to [CocoaPods.org](http://cocoapods.org
>
> ) & its documentation.
> > +
> > +We've been trying to apply this to testing, and in order to pull this off I've had to extend Xcode to show off the results of failing tests in a more visual way. I built [Snapshots for Xcode](https://github.com/orta/snapshots).  Let's go through the process of building an Xcode plugin so you can do this too. Screw stability.
> > +
> > +<!-- more -->
> > +
> > +Lets start of with some Xcode inception, the nicest way to start working on Xcode plugins is to install [Alcatraz](http://alcatraz.io):
> > +
> > +```
> > +curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/supermarin/Alcatraz/master/Scripts/install.sh | sh
> > +```
> > +
> > +From Alcatraz, at a minimum, you're going to want to have [XcodeExplorer](https://github.com/edwardaux/XcodeExplorer) installed to dig through notifications and the view heriarchy, and then [Delisa Mason](http://delisa.me)'s [Xcode 5 Plugin](https://github.com/kattrali/Xcode5-Plugin-Template) template.
>
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> this.
>
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