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Huel versus Ambronite (banana, berries, and apple ginger)

By Eric Dolecki Posted on August 25, 2017 Posted in Ambronite, Blog, Food, General, Huel No Comments
Huel versus Ambronite (banana, berries, and apple ginger)

I am currently using Huel. I am a very strong proponent of Huel. For a long time, I wished I could order it – as the FDA did not approve it’s sale in the United States – until very recently. …

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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 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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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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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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keep it simple. Frameworks?

By Eric Dolecki Posted on February 16, 2017 Posted in Blog, General, Objective-C, Swift, Xcode No Comments
keep it simple. Frameworks?

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 …

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Barberry Coast Shave Co® Havana Shave Cream Review

By Eric Dolecki Posted on February 12, 2017 Posted in Blog, General No Comments Tagged with shaving
Barberry Coast Shave Co® Havana Shave Cream Review

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 …

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It’s moss scuttle time. 

By Eric Dolecki Posted on February 12, 2017 Posted in Blog, General No Comments
It’s moss scuttle time. 

It’s been quite cold lately. If you like to lather in a bowl with a brush and you’d like warm lather, get yourself a scuttle. Amazing.  mossscuttle.com

Soylent is my required nerd food

By Eric Dolecki Posted on February 11, 2017 Posted in Blog, General No Comments Tagged with Nerd, Soylent
Soylent is my required nerd food

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 …

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The horror of Xcode project errors.

By Eric Dolecki Posted on February 10, 2017 Posted in Blog, General, Xcode No Comments
The horror of Xcode project errors.

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 …

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By-Tor and the Snow Dog (snow day)

By Eric Dolecki Posted on February 9, 2017 Posted in Blog, General No Comments Tagged with Personal
By-Tor and the Snow Dog (snow day)

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 …

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