Many people where I work have a tendency to have multiple copies of our git repositories. They do this because when using a gitflow structure, and a slow moving team workflow, you tend to have a task that you send off to testing, and then you wait on that branch for far longer than should …
Occasionally, I have found the need to store large files in the cloud (dropbox, one drive, google drive, etc). However, many of those cloud storage services have limits on the maximum size of file. File size limits make sense because companies don’t want to store your movies. It costs them money for the storage, and …
One of the most common problems I run into during typical iOS development is needing to get access to my app’s directory. Unfortunately, apple has made this as difficult as they could by making it so that Each simulator has a non-deterministic directory Each application on that simulator has a non-deterministic directory Each time you …
One of the things that I dislike about the OS X proxy settings is that they are all or none. This poses a problem to me. I like working on the iOS Simulator for speed and convenience. I like using Fiddler to do all sorts of network debugging. I don’t like that the iOS Simulator …
A while back I got myself a Pit Barrel Cooker which is kind of like a meat smoker/grill kind of thing. Its a pretty neat cooker and after a few attempts, it turned out some of the best ribs I’ve had in my life. They make it to be about as simple as possible. In …
We had someone leave recently, and as such have been doing interviews. Whenever we start interviewing people I start thinking about algorithms again. Math and algorithms are just fun to work on, they let you explore branches of though in creative ways that UI design doesn’t. This is the seventh post in my Project Euler series. …
So here’s one that shouldn’t be nearly as complicated as it is. Keeping any opinions to myself of whether it is good or bad, we use Xamarin for iOS/Android development. One of the problems that I recently ran into is that Xamarin’s iOS command line build is EXTREMELY SKETCHY. It will fail for reasons that …
I couldn’t decide what to do, so I thought it was time to solve more random hard problems. This is the seventh post in my Project Euler series. The sixth problem is here. By listing the first six prime numbers: 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, and 13, we can see that the 6th prime is 13. …
With Xcode 7 having come out recently, Apple has once again changed things in their CLI. After far longer than it should take, I believe I have finally stumbled upon the “proper” way to turn an xcarchive into an ipa. The best thing you can do with this is have your CI server do the …
My belief is that a text field should be able to do its own validation. Unfortunately, the delegate pattern causes many people to believe they must put the validation logic in a UIViewController, and I don’t blame people for thinking this. I was doing iOS development for well over a year before I finally started …