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Prototyping toward product release applications

By Eric Dolecki Posted on January 3, 2017 Posted in Blog, General No Comments Tagged with design, Develop, Prototype
Prototyping toward product release applications

In a landscape of moving targets, and the wish to hit the bullseyes in tandem, there is an increasing need to work closer together in order to get things done. In a traditional software “house” or application development team, there …

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Late to the party: Processing

By Eric Dolecki Posted on January 3, 2017 Posted in Blog, General No Comments Tagged with Processing
Late to the party: Processing

Welcome, 2017! Before our company break, I was getting into Processing as a visualization method for audio playback. Processing has been around for a really long time, I even have an old book that I recently threw out on the …

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Dirty beards?

By Eric Dolecki Posted on December 23, 2016 Posted in Blog, General No Comments Tagged with Beard
Dirty beards?

Somehow my wife was directed to a web page that states “Apparently beards are filled with fecal bacteria and are ‘as dirty as toilets’”. Okay… this has to be some kind of joke or part of the anti-hipster beard movement. …

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Merry Christmas!

By Eric Dolecki Posted on December 22, 2016 Posted in Blog, General No Comments
Merry Christmas!

And have a wonderful New Year!

Casio Pathfinder: A key to atomic clock syncing on the east coast.

By Eric Dolecki Posted on December 22, 2016 Posted in Blog, General No Comments Tagged with Casio, Hiking, Pathfinder, Watch
Casio Pathfinder: A key to atomic clock syncing on the east coast.

When I first received my PAW1300T-7V, it had a medium charge. After a few days I managed to get it powered to high, but it must have been early on into high. I would get an atomic sync perhaps twice …

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Weird things this morning.

By Eric Dolecki Posted on December 7, 2016 Posted in Blog, General No Comments
Weird things this morning.

This morning has been a bit strange. Out of the ordinary. While driving to work and stopped at a light, I pulled out my phone to do some cursory Facebook and Feedly browsing. I had a terrible connection – like …

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My PAW1300T-7V Finally Synced!

By Eric Dolecki Posted on November 30, 2016 Posted in Blog, General, Watch 1 Comment
My PAW1300T-7V Finally Synced!

Living on the east coast of the United States (outside Boston), I had a slim hope that my Casio Protrek PAW1300T-7V would ever receive a signal from Colorado. A night went by when I placed the watch on a South …

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iOS Bug: Occluded UIView with CABasicAnimation not redrawn

By Eric Dolecki Posted on November 23, 2016 Posted in Blog, General, Swift No Comments
iOS Bug: Occluded UIView with CABasicAnimation not redrawn

I have a UIImageView that holds album artwork in a project. When I get a new now playing notification, instead of simply setting the image to the image view, I perform a crossfade. It’s a lot prettier that way. No …

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Swift 3: Always display the UITableView scrollbar

By Eric Dolecki Posted on November 22, 2016 Posted in Blog, General, Swift 3 Comments
Swift 3: Always display the UITableView scrollbar

I recently had a strange request in regards to a UITableView. You see, the table in a UI could only display 3 rows before scrolling was enabled. Given the minute stature of this table, showing a user that there were …

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Apple Watch notification when Mac is unlocked with it.

By Eric Dolecki Posted on November 16, 2016 Posted in Apple Inc., Blog, General No Comments

I appreciate unlocking my Mac using my Apple Watch. It’s convenient. It’s not as robust as some other solutions that use my phone as a beacon and unlock as I approach. But it’s good. One thing I don’t especially like …

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My mouse suddenly stuck?

By Eric Dolecki Posted on November 15, 2016 Posted in Blog, General No Comments

I am currently running MacOS Sierra 10.12.1. I have a magic mouse 2, magic trackpad, Wacom tablet, and a spare magic mouse. Suddenly while working my mouse cursor became stuck in the menu bar above my username. I could shake the cursor …

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Swift 3: UITableView snap to cells

By Eric Dolecki Posted on November 14, 2016 Posted in Apple Computer, Blog, General, Swift No Comments Tagged with Swift

If you have your UITableViews snap to their cells, you’ll end up with a more refined user experience. This solution I have works with cells that are consistent in their height (static). You could always work with dynamic heights if …

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Swift 3: Distance between two CGPoints

By Eric Dolecki Posted on October 17, 2016 Posted in Apple Computer, Blog, General, Swift No Comments

Here it is in Swift 3, it’s a little different. I tried to use hypotf but it didn’t like CGFloat subtraction. override func touchesBegan(_ touches: Set<UITouch>, with event: UIEvent?) { if touches.first != nil { let pointCenter = CGPoint(x: self.view.frame.width …

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iOS to macOS: Reading keyboard input

By Eric Dolecki Posted on October 10, 2016 Posted in Apple Computer, Blog, General, Swift 6 Comments
iOS to macOS: Reading keyboard input

Coming from iOS to macOS, I wanted to read keyboard input in my macOS application. Not from a textfield but rather from the window itself. I thought this would be an easy task. After some trial and error, Googling, and …

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Quick & Easy JavaScript/PHP CMS

By Eric Dolecki Posted on September 9, 2016 Posted in Blog, General No Comments

I needed to create a website where I could update multiple pages worth of content remotely. It’s a travel blog. I could use WordPress to do this out of the gate, but I wanted to get away from the whole …

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Bose QC 35 versus Blue Microphone Mo-Fi

By Eric Dolecki Posted on September 2, 2016 Posted in Blog, General No Comments Tagged with Blue, Bose, Headphones, QC35

I’m lucky enough to have access to both products, the Bose QuietComfort 35 and the Blue Microphone Mo-Fi. The Mo-Fi currently can be purchased from Amazon for $318.99 (discounted from $349.99) and the Bose for $349.99 (no discount offered). I …

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Mount Everest Base Camp Trek

By Eric Dolecki Posted on August 18, 2016 Posted in Blog, General No Comments Tagged with Everest, travel, Trek

I’ve been bitten by the Mount Everest bug – just the very idea of it – for a number of years. I worked on a sherpa-inspired work project a many, many years ago and that got me initially interested in the …

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Coffiest from Soylent. Caffeine costs $16 more?

By Eric Dolecki Posted on August 9, 2016 Posted in Blog, Food, General No Comments Tagged with Soylent

I’ve been a Soylent 2.0 subscriber for a long time now. Since April on subscription, I’ve been buying it for a while longer than that. Soylent has now come out with Coffiest – still 400 kcal but now with the …

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Soylent to the rescue…

By Eric Dolecki Posted on August 5, 2016 Posted in Blog, General No Comments Tagged with Soylent

This past week has been hell for my wife and I as we made a move into our new home. We hope it’s the last move for some time, as it was mentally and physically exhausting. During this time of …

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WatchOS 2.2.2 Debug Symbols A.W.O.L.

By Eric Dolecki Posted on July 22, 2016 Posted in Apple Computer, Blog, General, Xcode No Comments

On Jul 18th Apple released several operating system updates. WatchOS 2.2.2 was one of those released updates. Four days ago. Since installation I have been unable to debug watch extensions on my real device since Xcode looks for, attempts to …

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