When Google’s GDrive was finally made available to the public, I was thrilled to see that the pricing structure would allow me to get double the space for the same amount of money I was paying Dropbox. Reading the description, it seemed that GDrive had all of the...
I hate XCode but really want to love it. Most Cocoa developers have had more than a few bad experiences with XCode where it has crashed more than once in a day, magically, lost track of files, failed to warn you of naming conflicts in assets, or simply dead-locked...
I am always looking for ways to minimize costs and maximize the effectiveness that I get out of my tools, so it should be no surprise that when Google’s GDrive was announced I jumped all over it. The reasons were clear: I was a heavy Dropbox user and Google offers...
As anyone who reads this regularly will know, I spend most of working day in XCode developing for Apple’s iOS and OS X platforms. However, I have had a long affinity for Java and am a fan of the Android operating system; I have a number Android devices including the...
I’ll get right to the point here. Reinventing the wheel is bad. Period. End of sentence. If you have a requirement that can be met by an acceptably licensed open-source software project and you are not using that project, then you are likely adding unneeded complexity...
I’ve been looking for a new color scheme for Vim and XCode for some time. In Apple’s defense the XCode default theme is pretty good, but after several hours of programming the light colors can get a little straining on the eyes, so I experimented with a number of the...
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