I hate Cucumber. It is a colossal waste of time and effort just to make your tests ‘read more easily’. And I’m not alone.1 When I started looking for an automation framework for iOS, I originally started off with Calabash in mind. Looking at the documentation, everything looked great, but when it came down to …
Most of the information to mix Frank and CocoaPods was gathered from Pete Hodgson’s blurgh – Being Agile. The rest of it was gathered through my own experience. In an effort to keep the lines from being blurred. This post is specifically about using Frank and CocoaPods together. Not how to use Frank or CocoaPods. …
As certainly everybody knows, iOS 8 has been announced, and Xcode 6 is in the hands of us developers in the form of a beta. So far, things are looking great. I’ve played with Swift a bit and can see some promise in it. My favorite part is the new debugging tools. Like any good …
For anybody that hasn’t heard of NOSQL databases, there’s a lot of information out there about them. The most important thing to remember is that they are not for everyone. Just like relational databases are not perfect all the time, NOSQL databases are not perfect either. That being said, we’ve decided to try out a …
This is the fourth post in my Project Euler series. The fourth problem is here. Problem 5 2520 is the smallest number that can be divided by each of the numbers from 1 to 10 without any remainder. What is the smallest positive number that is evenly divisible by all of the numbers from 1 to 20? This was by far my favorite …
This is the fourth post in my Project Euler series. The third problem is here. Problem 4 A palindromic number reads the same both ways. The largest palindrome made from the product of two 2-digit numbers is [latex]9009 = 91 \cdot 99[/latex]. Find the largest palindrome made from the product of two 3-digit numbers. I was a little disappointed at …
In one of our iOS projects we used PLCrashReporter to capture crash reports and email them to one of our servers. Since then we have decided that Crashlytics does a much better job for a lot less work, and cost the same amount (FREE!). Because of this, we switched over to using Crashlytics, so I won’t explain …
In the world of dependency management, every platform has their own solutions. Up until recently there hasn’t really been a good solution in Objective-C. CocoaPods is a relatively newish dependency management system for Objective-C. I’ve seen it mentioned in a few GitHub projects over the years, and recently I decided to try it out. At …
Almost every time I’m working on network stuff in iOS or Android, I immediately open up Fiddler. I know that there’s also Charles Proxy for OS X which does just as well as Fiddler, but the majority of the time, my Windows VM is running anyway, so I just haven’t been able to justify the …
This is the third post in my Project Euler series (if series is the right word). The second problem is here. Problem 3 The prime factors of 13195 are 5, 7, 13 and 29. What is the largest prime factor of the number 600851475143 ? This problem seemed rather daunting to me at first. Upon first reading it, I …