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Visualizing Grand Central Dispatch
Apple's Grand Central Dispatch api can be hard to visualize so I created a diagram that I could refer back to later. It’s been useful to me so I thought I’d share it.
View ArticleA Pattern For Using Blocks as contextInfo
One of the more useful tips I saw at WWDC was a pattern for converting any callback method that takes a selector and contextInfo parameter into a block callback. Just to review, a block is simply an...
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A solution for the iPhone Ringer Switch
About a month ago, there was a story going around about an iPhone going off during a symphony performance. It became a hot topic among blogs and podcasts alike but most dealt with the issue of what the...
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Learning Rake - Dependency-Based Programming
I've recently used Jim Weirich's Ruby-based Rake tool to automate a variety of tasks: building software, processing game assets, or simply moving files within a git-repository. It's changed the way I...
View ArticleLearning Rake - What is Rake? (The Library)
Last time we looked at using Promises to implement Dependency-Based Programming. Today we are going to look at what exactly Rake is, and what it provides that is so useful. "Rake" refers to both an...
View ArticleLearning Rake - What is Rake? (The DSL)
Last time, we talked about Rake's Task class, how it implements a Promise construct and how we could write our simple "vacation" script in it. Today, we are going to introduce Rake's signature feature:...
View ArticleLearning Rake - What is Rake? (The Application)
At this point, we've looked at Dependency-Based Programming, Rake's Task class, and using Rake's DSL to make writing scripts easier. Rake - The Application In each case, we've been using the ruby...
View ArticleSplitting functions for fast ASM.js compilation
When developing an app with Emscripten and compiling with ASM.js, occasionally, you'll find a function that causes the ASM.js compiler to take a long time. The ASM.js compiler can process functions in...
View ArticleUIView category to easily add a parallax effect
iOS 7 recently introduced a feature called "UIMotionEffects" which allows the developer to change the UI in response to changes in the phone's viewing angle. Apple has provided some heuristics to...
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