My Facebook feed was hit by a Barberry Coast ad for shave cream the other week. I haven’t heard of them, but the cream was called Havana. I love Tabac as a scent so I followed the link to see what I’d find. The comments were interesting, and while I am a dedicated Truefitt & …
Given our mornings at our house, I usually need to get moving without having to prepare and eat something at the table. This equates to consuming something behind the wheel of my vehicle. Now, truth be told, mornings are my jam when considering how much work I get done in the morning. For whatever reason …
We have all been there, right? You design the UI, you’ve planned out the architecture and how your application will work. Days go by and you’ve got things nailed down tight. Interactions are smooth, data is flowing like warm nectar from some newly discovered fountain of awesomeness. Your project is ready for the next thing. …
Macbook Pro Retina, Apple Watch, RayBan sunglasses, Bose QuietControl 30, Muffin House winter seasonal coffee, Xcode, and SoundTouch tunes drifting from the Bose SoundTouch 300 sound bar in the living room nearby. My code is quite clean and in working order. Hurrah! Thanks to GitHub Desktop. You make our jobs easier. My work closed all of it’s …
I recently played around recording audio on my Apple Watch. Doing that was easy enough, and I wanted to send the recorded file from the watch extension to the iOS application – and play it. I started messing around and used sendFile as the communication protocol since it can work in the background (without the …
Recently I was working with watchOS 3 and iOS – transferring data back and forth (not using reply callbacks). I was using .sendMessage, and messages from the iPhone to the watch were very quick. However, messages from the watch to the phone seemed very slow, or so I thought. This is what my receive delegate …
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 are designers and there are developers (or software engineers). Designers. Normally the designers take their …
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 …