I’m happy to announce that version 1.3.0 of Code Journal is now available for both direct customers and Mac App Store users. This version brings a lot of UI refinements and I have taken your feedback very seriously and streamlined the user flows and functionality...
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Objective-C and Cocoa (or more accurately Cocoa Touch) are seeing surge in developer interest due in most part to the revenue potential of the iOS App Store. A lot has been made of Objective-C’s quarks and it’s true; like all other programming languages Objective-C...
Can You Parse My Backend
As developers most of us have had an idea for an app (mobile, web, desktop, or whatever) but just haven’t had enough time to configure and fiddle with a backend stack or system. I mean come on who wants to dedicate 200hrs+ to a proof of concept. Well, I have been...
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If you listened to Coder Radio this week you would have heard toward the end that I have been working on a project targeted for the Ubuntu App Store. You will have also heard that I ended up choosing Mono as the development stack for the project; I plan on writing a...
The Problem With Religion (In Software)
As engineers we generally strive for the simplest most elegant solutions to the problems we encounter in our work. Though we may not agree on what systems or frameworks are elegant, we tend to look at things from a fairly objective perspective. I believe that it is...
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Welcome to blog.mdominick.com this is a continuation of my personal software development blog. Older posts can be found at http://codingonthetrain.tumblr.com/. Stay tuned.
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