A while back I was thinking about one of our workflows. When it comes to iOS localization, the way it was prior to Xcode 6 was to either use genstrings, which sucks, or come up with your own in house solution, which sucks. One problem with the old genstrings was that it would overwrite all […]
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Funny enough, I actually did all of this work a while ago, before apple announced their new trackpad thingy. Many people who use the Magic Trackpad (or the Macbook’s trackpad) prefer to do a two finger click instead of a right mouse click. Let me preface by saying, I am not one of you. I
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This was initially going to be a small part of a different blog post, but somewhere along the lines I realized that this “little” part of the other post was easily large enough to be it’s own post. This is a pretty cool topic in and of itself. The post it was going to be
A while back I ran into an interesting problem. As any good developer knows, you don’t make code changes in prod. You typically have a series of different environments set up. Where I work, we have 5 environments that we work through. Development -> Pre-Test -> Test -> Beta -> Production With this process, we start off having the code only available on
Fiddler: Redirecting Traffic Read More »
I recently started doing an online course on “MEAN” applications for fun. If you’re not familiar, MEAN stands for Mongo, Express, Angular, Node. It’s pretty neat to see the kinds of things that you can throw together. I still don’t think I’d write something for production that uses Node.js, but other people have had good
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At work, we’re recently started to try and be nice people when it comes to repositories. We’ve started leaving more README’s. Also we’ve found that when we’re sending out emails to other people, formatting code is just a pain. It’s usually just little clips here and there. The kind of thing you would put in
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Any long time developer of iOS knows that limiting the length of a UITextField is fairly simple. All you have to do is implement textField:shouldChangeCharactersInRange:replacementString:. The problem is, when compared to other languages, this can seem really tedious and dumb. In other languages/platforms, all you have to do is set some property on your UITextField , and you’re
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In Xcode 6, apple made some interesting changes to the way iOS simulators work. They are actually really interesting. The short story is, you can create your own simulators. Pick your own OS and device hardware, and a simulator is born. All you have to do is open Xcode and go to Window -> Devices and in the bottom
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I’ve been using JavaScript a lot more than I used to. To be perfectly honest, I’m not a big fan of the language. There are some cool things that you can do, and I can understand how it could be nice and fast for small projects, but for any kind of enterprise web application, things
TypeScript – Getting Started Read More »
This makes the 3rd post I’ve done tonight. I know that doesn’t mean anything to most people, but I started off trying to write a post on immediately invoked closures, I got sidetracked. twice. Immediately Invoked Closures are also known in other languages as Immediately Invoked Functions or Immediately Invoked Function Expression (IIFE). But honestly, what
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