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Achievement Unlocked: Git Ninja

Hawk iMedia Posted on May 11, 2012 by Hawk iMediaMay 10, 2012

The title of this article may be overstating my expertise with git slightly, but that’s how I feel having successfully tackled what is, I think, a fairly non-trivial task with git: managing changes across multiple branches and multiple remotes using … Continue reading →

Posted in iDevBlogADay, Software Development | Tagged git, Workflow | Leave a reply

Lockbox: Easily Secure Your App’s Sensitive Data

Hawk iMedia Posted on April 27, 2012 by Hawk iMediaApril 26, 2012

It seems like there has been a lot in the “developer” news lately about the secure storage of user data in iOS apps, as well as related topics around securely replacing the venerable but now deprecated device unique identifier, or … Continue reading →

Posted in iDevBlogADay, Software Development | Tagged Github, Keychain, Lockbox, Security | Leave a reply

Pulling in Many Directions

Hawk iMedia Posted on April 13, 2012 by Hawk iMediaApril 12, 2012

Sometimes there is no time to focus on just one or two things. No, sometimes things get busy and between day jobs, and night jobs, and family, and all those other obligations we have in our lives, there is time … Continue reading →

Posted in iDevBlogADay | Tagged Consulting, CoreAudio, Debugging, Project X | Leave a reply

Geofencing: What do you do with it?

Hawk iMedia Posted on March 30, 2012 by Hawk iMediaMarch 29, 2012

Location Services are one of the most interesting capabilities available in iOS. One interesting feature therein is “geofencing”, also known as “region monitoring.” I recently investigated how this works and what you can do with it. While easy enough to … Continue reading →

Posted in iDevBlogADay | Tagged Location Services | 4 Replies

Core Data Image Caching

Hawk iMedia Posted on March 16, 2012 by Hawk iMediaMarch 15, 2012

It is a common pattern for an app to do something with data that is not local. Maintaining decent app performance while fetching the data is one challenge (and not the focus of this article). Keeping the data, and enough … Continue reading →

Posted in iDevBlogADay | Tagged CoreData | 8 Replies

Animation Revelation

Hawk iMedia Posted on March 2, 2012 by Hawk iMediaMarch 2, 2012

For the newcomer to iOS development, “animation” may seem like a daunting proposition. That’s how I felt when I wanted to animate a game board 90 degrees in my very first app. How could I possibly do that!? It must … Continue reading →

Posted in iDevBlogADay | Tagged Animation, Project X | Leave a reply

OS X Lion + Oracle + ruby-oci8 Gem Solution

Hawk iMedia Posted on February 24, 2012 by Hawk iMediaFebruary 24, 2012

In my day job, we have need to interface with an Oracle database, from ruby. There’s a gem for that: ruby-oci8. The problem, since OS X Lion came out, is that installing the gem with it’s native extensions (i.e. compiled … Continue reading →

Posted in Software Development | Tagged Oracle, OS X Lion, Ruby, ruby-oci8 | Leave a reply

Project X Has Begun

Hawk iMedia Posted on February 17, 2012 by Hawk iMediaFebruary 16, 2012

In my last post, Something Old or Something New?, I talked about my own mental process for choosing what to do next that would be meaningful, i.e. worth doing and doing well, and ultimately profitable (for a reasonable definition of … Continue reading →

Posted in iDevBlogADay | Tagged Animation, Design, Project X | Leave a reply

Something New or Something Old?

Hawk iMedia Posted on February 3, 2012 by Hawk iMediaFebruary 2, 2012

What’s my “Next Great App” going to be? No one knows, of course, since almost anything can be a hit, or not! I’ve experienced this phenomena with my own, current apps. And this leaves me with an ever-present quandary: Should … Continue reading →

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Many From One

Hawk iMedia Posted on January 20, 2012 by Hawk iMediaJanuary 19, 2012

Building one app from one code base is pretty straight forward (all other complexities of Xcode development notwithstanding, of course). Building more than one app from one code base is a bit less intuitive, however. Recently someone wrote about using … Continue reading →

Posted in iDevBlogADay | Tagged Xcode | 4 Replies

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