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 I’m pretty excited. What will I take this year? Well, to be honest, taking a laptop to sessions in …
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 copy it into my own project to use it – to find out somehow …
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 ability. However recently I’ve needed to look into it for work reasons. I had been able to scan …
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 here for your viewing convenience. At the 9:27 mark a feature is described as “Earshot”. This means that for devices to discover …
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 while waiting for this or that to get fixed. </rant>
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 system might not properly fit. It works. But guess what? After looking at some truncated text in my application I felt like other users probably will… ripped …
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 for many reasons that I won’t go into here. It’s negative, so I’ll try to avoid thinking those thoughts. I fired up the …
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 Yosemite. You may use the dock. I’ve added a few alias icons to my Finder windows, and you …
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, what’s new in this, what’s new in that, etc. Even though I wasn’t selected by lottery (70% at WWDC are …