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Books are a recurring theme in my software development life, primarily because I’m awful at teaching myself anything from first principles, and because I do most of my learning in isolation. I usually...
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Objective-C IsNullOrEmpty
Update: tested and verified my assumptions. NULL and nil are equivalent when methods are invoked against them, and categories can be used to implement class methods. One of the handier methods in C# is...
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Programming self-improvement
Herein are my New Year’s Resolutions, of the idevdev inclination. Finish Seven Languages in Seven Weeks This book takes the reader through the basics of seven quite different languages, most of which...
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My first iOS app, day 1
I’m not a GUI programmer. Nor am I comfortable using frameworks. Yet here I am, trying to learn iOS programming. The first app I’m tackling that isn’t straight from a book is one that will ask SiriusXM...
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Marketing 101: Guaranteed failure
Completely off-topic. Mostly. My employer received a solicitation in the mail roughly five years ago that I’ve kept around to show co-workers whenever I want to impress on them how not to communicate...
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Link: Developing Nearby Now
Interesting comparison of developing for iOS and Android. Not terribly detailed, but a good read.
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Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names | Kalzumeus Software
So, as a public service, I’m going to list assumptions your systems probably make about names. All of these assumptions are wrong. Try to make less of them next time you write a system which touches...
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Learn to code | Codecademy
And so it begins. I worked through the Code Year 2012’s first week’s worth of lessons tonight, all covering Javascript, which I’ve used on rare occasion. Nothing earth-shaking, no syntax I didn’t learn...
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Thanks to iOS, Objective-C adoption grows in 2011 | Macworld
Demonstrating continued momentum for Apple’s iOS platform for mobile devices, the Objective-C language used to develop applications for iOS showed the most growth in popularity in 2011 as a programming...
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Becoming an iOS Developer « Josh Smith on WPF
This blog post describes my experience of learning how to write iOS software, after having spent many years exclusively in the world of .NET development. It provides warnings, suggestions, and tips for...
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Objective-C IsNullOrEmpty
Update: tested and verified my assumptions. NULL and nil are equivalent when methods are invoked against them, and categories can be used to implement class methods. One of the handier methods in C# is...
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Programming self-improvement
Herein are my New Year’s Resolutions, of the idevdev inclination. Finish Seven Languages in Seven Weeks This book takes the reader through the basics of seven quite different languages, most of which...
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My first iOS app, day 1
I’m not a GUI programmer. Nor am I comfortable using frameworks. Yet here I am, trying to learn iOS programming. The first app I’m tackling that isn’t straight from a book is one that will ask SiriusXM...
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Link: Developing Nearby Now
Interesting comparison of developing for iOS and Android. Not terribly detailed, but a good read.
View ArticleClik here to view.
Objective-C IsNullOrEmpty
Update: tested and verified my assumptions. NULL and nil are equivalent when methods are invoked against them, and categories can be used to implement class methods. One of the handier methods in C# is...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Programming self-improvement
Herein are my New Year’s Resolutions, of the idevdev inclination. Finish Seven Languages in Seven Weeks This book takes the reader through the basics of seven quite different languages, most of which...
View ArticleClik here to view.
My first iOS app, day 1
I’m not a GUI programmer. Nor am I comfortable using frameworks. Yet here I am, trying to learn iOS programming. The first app I’m tackling that isn’t straight from a book is one that will ask SiriusXM...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Link: Developing Nearby Now
Interesting comparison of developing for iOS and Android. Not terribly detailed, but a good read.
View ArticleClik here to view.
Objective-C IsNullOrEmpty
Update: tested and verified my assumptions. NULL and nil are equivalent when methods are invoked against them, and categories can be used to implement class methods. One of the handier methods in C# is...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Programming self-improvement
Herein are my New Year’s Resolutions, of the idevdev inclination. Finish Seven Languages in Seven Weeks This book takes the reader through the basics of seven quite different languages, most of which...
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