WWDC catch up, co-workers, and KMT magazine
WWDC catch up Today when I wasn’t performing some administration project documentation and work, I was watching WWDC 14 videos. I started off with some of the basic topics, like what’s new in Xcode 6,...
View ArticleA Mac OS X Finder trick for developers
If you’re like me and use many different tools, getting to them might take a tiny bit getting to. You might use Alfred (which is incredible), or you may use Spotlight in Mavericks or even better in...
View ArticleBack to iOS Development
I have been buried in Android Studio for the past several months. Learning that from scratch didn’t come without it’s challenges and brief excitement. But I’ve really grown to loath Android development...
View ArticleCoding the extra mile
I recently came across some labels in a design I’ve been working on that I originally deployed using NSLineBreakMode.ByTruncatingTail. Conscious of a possible situation where text coming into the...
View ArticleDeveloping with a live backend
Sometimes developing on a live backend is a royal pain in the ass, Yorkshire pudding included with gravy from lost puppy’s caramelized souls. Time goes by with an inability to get proper work done...
View ArticleMulti-platform API for Google Nearby Messages
I happened upon a video presentation from Google I/O 2016 that I felt was interesting. It was called “Introducing Nearby: Physical proximity within and without apps – Google I/O 2016”. I present it...
View ArticleSwift: Bonjour, NSNetService & IP Addresses
Good morning. At least it’s a good morning here. I have recently been exploring Bonjour in Swift – I have never investigated Bonjour as a concept as networking is one of the weaker areas of my coding...
View Articlekeep it simple. Frameworks?
Recently I had a project in a workspace to produce a framework of Objective-C and Swift code – supplied by someone else. I had a devil of a time getting it to build for me. And when I did, I tried to...
View ArticleWWDC 17 Packing List
It’s almost time for WWDC17, this year in San Jose, CA instead of San Francisco. I haven’t been in several years because my lottery skills are obviously lacking. I managed to score one this year and...
View ArticleDocumentation is king ♔
Proper and well-thought out documentation in your code and in your README.md files is so key. I don’t care if you’ve only been coding for a month and most of your code is crap – I’ll take your stuff a...
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