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PRW Grail it’s here

By Eric Dolecki Posted on July 28, 2017 Posted in Uncategorized No Comments
PRW Grail it’s here

I’ve long loved my PRW 1300t-7v. It’s gorgeous but it lacks the version 3 sensor cluster. My 3100 has that but it’s a negative display and basically everything on it is black. The band is comfortable but it’s not metal. …

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Monitoring the closest 20 regions – how?

By Eric Dolecki Posted on July 27, 2017 Posted in Blog, General, Swift, Xcode No Comments

[wp-svg-icons icon=”location-2″ wrap=”h1″] iOS allows each application to monitor up to 20 regions. That seems like a lot, especially when you figure that the regions are registered and can be triggered (entry and exit) even while your app is backgrounded …

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A Huel™ Customer!

By Eric Dolecki Posted on July 23, 2017 Posted in Blog, General, Huel No Comments
A Huel™ Customer!

I have long envied those living in parts of the world where Huel could be delivered. For a very long time, Huel could not ship to the United States because of some FDA work that needed completed first, shipping location …

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WWDC 17 tips

By Eric Dolecki Posted on June 10, 2017 Posted in Uncategorized No Comments

There were a few things I found invaluable while attending.  My Snooz white noise generator to replace a fan for sweet slumber at Hyatt Place. It kept me from needing to pack an actual and unwieldy proper fan.  Anker 20000 …

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Travel to WWDC17

By Eric Dolecki Posted on June 4, 2017 Posted in Uncategorized No Comments

So I am traveling from Chicago to San Jose on United Airlines, and I was struck by the lack of small display on the back of any seats. Surely something would drop from near the light controls? No. Touted on …

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WWDC Minor Predictions

By Eric Dolecki Posted on June 2, 2017 Posted in Apple Inc., Blog, General No Comments Tagged with WWDC
WWDC Minor Predictions

Some very minor predictions of mine for WWDC17 There will be barrels of Odwalla juice again. I haven’t been to WWDC in a few years due to coming up empty on the lottery – but I have always liked when …

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The tvOS long press

By Eric Dolecki Posted on May 26, 2017 Posted in Apple TV, Blog, General No Comments Tagged with tvOS
The tvOS long press

If you’d like to detect a long press on a UIButton or just for a view that has no buttons – it’s pretty easy. There is one simple gotcha, however. You’ll trigger your selector twice. Once when detected (down on …

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WWDC 17 Packing List

By Eric Dolecki Posted on May 24, 2017 Posted in Apple Inc., Apple TV, Apple Watch, Blog, General, Objective-C, Swift, Xcode No Comments Tagged with Apple, travel, WWDC, WWDC17
WWDC 17 Packing List

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 …

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Getting hour offsets for local time versus a target time zone in Swift

By Eric Dolecki Posted on May 15, 2017 Posted in Blog, General, Swift No Comments Tagged with Swift, TimeZone
Getting hour offsets for local time versus a target time zone in Swift

I am currently working on something that will display time in different time zones. However, you need to compare the user’s current time versus those at the target time zones to be accurate. This is what I figured out. It’s …

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tvOS UIFocusGuide demystified

By Eric Dolecki Posted on May 10, 2017 Posted in Swift, tvOS No Comments Tagged with Swift, tvOS, UIFocusGuide
tvOS UIFocusGuide demystified

A post about tvOS UIFocus enlightenment and a helper Class that I use to help debug my user interface work. Above you’ll notice four buttons (a screenshot from my actual Apple TV). You’ll also notice a total of eight purple …

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Creating a tvOS parallax UIButton

By Eric Dolecki Posted on May 9, 2017 Posted in Blog, General, Swift, Xcode No Comments
Creating a tvOS parallax UIButton

If you’ve been involved in tvOS application development, or you’re new to the whole process, you might find this post interesting in regards to user interface. I have recently been involved in tvOS dabbling. I’ve been creating a custom application …

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Richer text for UILabels

By Eric Dolecki Posted on May 2, 2017 Posted in Blog, General, Swift No Comments
Richer text for UILabels

This post is silly simple, but in the past, I remember doing things like this using Ranges.  You have a 2-line UILabel and you want a bold font for the first line, and then regular for the second. In Swift, …

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A curiosity on Chapel Street in Blackpool, U.K.

By Eric Dolecki Posted on April 20, 2017 Posted in Blog, General No Comments
A curiosity on Chapel Street in Blackpool, U.K.

I’ve never been to Blackpool, and according to Ian Anderson, it’s not the nicest place to visit. That said, I was listening to “Ian Anderson Plays the Orchestral Jethro Tull (Live)” and when “Up the Pool” played into my sweet, …

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Returning data from an async network operation in Swift

By Eric Dolecki Posted on April 5, 2017 Posted in Blog, Swift No Comments Tagged with Async, GET, Network, Operation, POST, Swift
Returning data from an async network operation in Swift

If you’re ever using asynchronous network operations (say GET or POST) and want to return data when calling a method, you’ll quickly understand that it’s not so easy. But you’ll see below how you can do this fairly easily. Let’s …

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UILabel centered text – getting the text’s rect

By Eric Dolecki Posted on April 4, 2017 Posted in Blog, General, Swift No Comments
UILabel centered text – getting the text’s rect

I recently had a section of user interface where I had a UILabel that took up an iPhone’s full width. It contained text which would be dynamic over time, meaning that the text would update at times. I wanted to …

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Keeping your developer castle organized

By Eric Dolecki Posted on March 29, 2017 Posted in Blog, General No Comments
Keeping your developer castle organized

A little bit about how I work. There are a few important things I do while working on any project. I document design and development decisions in my personal customized wiki. I work with source control and a server-based, centralized …

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Sometimes it’s not you, it’s them.

By Eric Dolecki Posted on March 24, 2017 Posted in Blog, General No Comments Tagged with Bug, Javascript, Jquery, XML
Sometimes it’s not you, it’s them.

You’re beating your head against the wall. The table. Your monitor. Your console is laughing at you. Something isn’t undefined. It’s not an empty string. It’s just… something. You spend a warm hour looking at your code. Nothing seems wrong. …

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Sometimes Javascript is the ticket.

By Eric Dolecki Posted on March 22, 2017 Posted in Blog, General No Comments Tagged with Javascript, Jquery
Sometimes Javascript is the ticket.

I’ve been living in Swift iOS, watchOS, and tvOS land for quite some time. Today I wanted to make a prototype of something implementing some public API. GETs and POSTs of goodness. A rich user interface. Within the span of …

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Getting the rotation angle after CABasicAnimation?

By Eric Dolecki Posted on March 15, 2017 Posted in Apple Computer, Blog, Swift No Comments Tagged with iOS, Swift
Getting the rotation angle after CABasicAnimation?

I had a view that I rotate a lot, often more than 360 degrees (spins around a few times). Each time it stops, I wanted to determine the resulting “visual” angle. How does one go about doing that? rotateView is …

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watchOS: Adding a complication to an existing project?

By Eric Dolecki Posted on March 3, 2017 Posted in Apple Watch, Xcode No Comments Tagged with watchOS, Xcode
watchOS: Adding a complication to an existing project?

Much of Xcode is wonderful to use in my opinion. You can dig and dig and dig and still find new things in there. However, there are aspects that induce sphincter tightening just thinking about it (without version control). Anything …

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