What is the cost of expedience? Answer: Technical debt. How often have you had to solve a problem quickly, knowing that your solution was correct (i.e. it works), but not really how you’d have liked to do it? Sometimes the … Continue reading →
One of the features of my new day job is that the development environment is full-on Agile. It’s my first experience in such an environment, and while I’ve worked in plenty of places that used bits and pieces of Agile, … Continue reading →
If you are an Apple Developer, you have no doubt been bombarded lately with reminders that Apple is shutting down its developer portal for Christmas beginning today Friday, December 21st, through next Friday, December 28th. What shall we do without … Continue reading →
No, that’s not a new and magical API in the title. Just an eye catcher…
Continue reading →I made a stupid mistake recently, which cost me more than a few hours of time to figure out. But I learned a couple things: Xcode will let you dig as deep a hole as you like, despite its “assistance”, … Continue reading →
In a previous post I wrote up some discoveries I had made about using geofencing — region monitoring in iOS parlance — based on some testing I had done. I have since applied those experiments to a real world application … Continue reading →
In my last post about dynamic pattern images , I showed how to create images on the fly for use as background pattern images. As promised, today I’ll show how to create composite images with cutouts using masks.
Continue reading →The image handling capabilities available in iOS (and OS X for that matter) are pretty spectacular. Using only high level APIs, you can work with images quite easily. But lurking very close to the high level APIs is Core Graphics, … Continue reading →
A slight departure from the thing we all love doing (writing code) to a thing some of us may have to spend time on (system administration). We added a fourth Mac to our home network recently, and I wanted to … Continue reading →
This is an old and common thing to do in an iOS app. Doing it well — or at all — it turns out, is pretty easy, but perhaps not obvious.
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