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 topic. It’s a pity I tossed it, and it was a big pretty mother hardcover …
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. Hipster beards, I agree, are pretty ridiculous. Filled with fecal bacteria? How? What are guys …
I just read about this and smacked myself on the forehead. Normally when developing an application I follow some sort of branding guidelines or perhaps make use of a custom font. I think most developer/designers DOI this quite regularly. Now, I’ve found myself coding to those conventions over and over for various labels and like …
And have a wonderful New Year!
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 a week. This was while placing the watch on a window sill facing southwest as …
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 none. My phone decided to pair some someone’s XFiniity Wi-Fi router near the light. I …
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 West windowsill to no avail. I read many forum posts online which mentioned the difficulty …
It seems that before holidays my list of features coding and bug solutions in mind always grow before holidays. I ruminate on things I want to do and think of solutions to particular bugs. And I have to shelve them until after the festivities are enjoyed. It’s true. Right now I’m thinking about VPN and …
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 problems so far. Here is a snippet of the crossfading code. myfade = CABasicAnimation(keyPath: “contents”) …
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 more items in it was important. So it was decided that if this table had …
It sucks. Hard. My wife purchased one to use for work and she abandoned it not long afterward. About a day. So it’s been laying around and I have given it a go a few times. Every single time it hangs, mysteriously brings up the right-click menu and prevents scrolling, scrolling is highly erratic, etc. …
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 is when the Mac is unlocked with my watch: I get a temporary notification on …
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 with the mouse to enlarge the pointer, but I couldn’t seem to move it. Turned …
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 you wanted to. func scrollViewWillEndDragging(_ scrollView: UIScrollView, withVelocity velocity: CGPoint, targetContentOffset: UnsafeMutablePointer<CGPoint>) { if scrollView …
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 / 2, y: self.view.frame.height / 2) let touchPoint = touches.first?.location(in: self.view) let distance = CGPointDistance(from: …
Coming from iOS go 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 then some StackOverflow fishing, I managed to get this to work. It wasn’t exactly straightforward …
I declare this day a fine day having discovered non-Objective-C protocols! No more @objc protocol usage. Now it’s as simple as something like this: protocol myDelegate { func report(info:String) } class MyClass: NSObject { var delegate:myDelegate? var serviceType = “hephaestus” init(withServiceType: String){ self.serviceType = withServiceType DispatchQueue.main.asyncAfter(deadline: .now() + 0.1) { self.delegate?.report(info: UIDevice.current.name) } } convenience …
There may come a time when you’d like to shake a macOS application’s window (or one of them) to reinforce an event. In my case, I am creating a macOS application that serves as a conduit to control aspects of a user experience. It communicates with an iOS application which serves as a kind of …
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 commoditized theme look and feel. Something where I have more control without customizing a lot. So …