Tag Archives: noob

Quick Hits: Becareful when returning inc’ed vars

Posted on May 1, 2010 by abel

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 →

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Quick Hits: When your .gitignore file gets…ignored

Posted on February 6, 2010 by abel

I made a mistake while creating a GIT repos that I’m hoping I can save you from making.  I made my first commit on a project and I realized that a bunch of files were getting in that shouldn’t be.  … Continue reading →

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I LOVE MonoTouch

Posted on January 24, 2010 by abel

Don’t get me wrong, XCode is great…in it’s own way…but as a .Net dev coming to the iPhone platform, MonoTouch rocks my world!
For the other devs in my shoes looking to play with MonoTouch, here are some things to keep in mind: Continue reading →

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FasterCSV and noob-ish silliness

Posted on March 23, 2009 by abel

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 →

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