Category Archives: Quick Hits
Agile vs. No Silver Bullet
I’ve been returning to my source materials on Agile software development/project management methods recently, just to stay fresh. As part of my study, I ran across a blog post (more of a petulant rant, actually) that cites (actually, mentions in … Continue reading
Quick Hits: UIActionSheet cancel button strange behaviour
I just got bit by this and fixed it thanks to this StackOverflow post. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1197746/uiactionsheet-cancel-button-strange-behaviour Long story short, if your launch an action sheet in a view that lives in a UITabBarController, the “hit” box for the cancel button gets … Continue reading
Quick Hits: Becareful when returning inc’ed vars
I noticed this in some MonoTouch code that I wrote recently, but I think it makes sense across other languages as well. Let’s say you write a method that returns an incremented variable like this: private int MyAwesomeFunction(int pVar) { … Continue reading
Quick Hits: Sass demands syntax perfection!
Just a quick note about sass. Let’s say you had the following in /public/stylesheets/sass/foo.sass: body line-height:1.2em h1 color:red This would render a blank document for /public/stylesheets/foo.css. You won’t get an error about it, you’ll just get a blank document. Here’s … Continue reading
Quick Hits:Deploying iPhone projects to your iPhone/iPod Touch
This process sucks. Period. To get you through the suckage, I found this article with clear and useful steps. If you’re becoming an iPhone/iPod Touch developer, this is something you NEED to read. The article presents the steps of the … Continue reading
Quick Hits: A great FAQ for iPhone game developers
I came across this video from Brian Greenstone, the president and CEO of Pangea Software. You might remember him from such iPhone games as Enigmo, Cro-Mag Rally, or Bugdom 2. He’s made a video answering “10,000 ft view” questions about … Continue reading
Quick Hits: Things to keep in mind
(1) Before you unpack your gems, navigate to your vendors directory: /Users/[yourname]/[your-app]/vendor/gems: gem unpack [gem name] It isn’t the end of the world if you don’t do it ahead of time, but it does make life slightly easier. (2) Remember … Continue reading
FasterCSV and noob-ish silliness
Here are two things I discovered this weekend: Thing 1: FasterCSV is really cool! It’s easy to use and does exactly what it should. Here’s Scott Becker’s exporting tutorial. For importing, i’ve hacked together bits from Peter Larkmund’s travels and … Continue reading