Xcode 5 with better refactoring tools, smarter smart sense and less crashes.
A separate documentation viewer from Xcode itself so that command-tabbing between code and documents is possible and I can remove that weird purple icon DashCode uses from my Dock.
Transitioning the beta testing process from device limits and towards Apple ID's so anyone with a targeted ID can install a beta product on any device they own.
The ability to distribute betas over the App Store.
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- Coding Horror: Serving at the Pleasure of the King
Alcatraz - Package manager for Xcode. Why should ST2 users have all the fun?
Quickly get a fresh ubuntu install ready for ruby dev - Obviously you should read the script before running it.
Don't Spam Your Users: Batch Notifications in Rails - How to avoid sending too much email all at once.
Ruby on Rails Programming - Video course from Pragmatic.
- Mike Clark: Using Blocks in iOS 4
…to reach the widest possible audience, the tutorial was written for iOS 5 and earlier versions of Xcode. If you're developing with the current version of Xcode and for iOS 6 (which accounted for 83% of all iOS traffic in North America in February), you might want to make a few changes to the code in the tutorial. I've listed the changes below:
Use Modern Array Notation
Here's the old way to get at the element of an array whose index is theIndex in Objective-C: element …
…it does a fine job of building iOS apps for present-day devices, whether via Xcode, Xcode + AppCode, Appcelerator Titanium , RubyMotion or what-have-you. It's also a nice Android development machine.
And Then There's the Market
If my hardware problem wasn't a big enough barrier, there's also Windows Phone's standing in the market. Here's a chart that was published yesterday in a Splat F article, Microsoft's Mobile Comeback Isn…
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- Lee Munroe: NI Election 2011: Viewing the party websites on an iPhone
- Mental Paging Space: End of Nokia
- Coding Horror: The One Button Mystique
- Signal vs. Noise: Some great stuff I've tried recently
I was interviewed on Giant Robots Smashing into Other Giant Robots about Basecamp for iPhone, the recent RubyGems.org security issues, Chemex brewed coffee, and more.
- giant robots smashing into other giant robots: Episode 36: A gem called exploit
- Ruby Inside: The Mega Ruby News and Release Roundup for February 2012
Avoid Xcode
Working inside of Xcode and dealing with Interface Builder brought memories back of wiring up Visual Basic controls and suffering through Visual Studio crashes. I left that world years ago, and I don't want to look back.
Avoiding Xcode means that we had to wire up the interface all in code. Our hybrid web/native approach helped with this, since there isn't that much native UI to hook up. Luckily, iOS6 added a new API to make this easier: Auto Layout …
- Global Nerdy: Mobile Development News Roundup for Tuesday, May 22, 2012
- Merbist: MacRuby on iOS - RubyMotion review
- A Fresh Cup: Double Shot #987
- Fingertips: Functional View and Controller testing with RubyMotion
- Phusion Corporate Blog: Laurent Sansonetti of RubyMotion fame to speak at BubbleConf 2012
- A Rubyist Railstastic Adventure: The RubyMotion Way
liftoff is a small Ruby gem that we've been working on to make new Xcode project setup as fast and painless as possible. With one simple command, you'll have a slew of defaults set up for your project, along with some things that we think will make your life in Xcode a bit nicer.
Usage
First, install the gem, which is as simple as gem install liftoff . Then, while in your project directory (wherever you are keeping the .xcodeproj file), just run liftoff . This will set up …
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- Merbist: MacRuby on iOS - RubyMotion review
- mir.aculo.us: 10 apps I'd like to see
- Rubynaut: Install ruby memcached on MacOSX
- Mike Clark: Xcode Shortcuts Cheat Sheet
- 41 technologies: A critique of Apple's approach for iOS GUI localization and how to do it much better in your Apps
…implementation. Way quicker than switching files and using manually searching for the file or using the Xcode pull-down menu with the methods listings.
View TODO Items Easily
I tend to litter // TODO comments throughout my source files to remind me of things I still need to implement during a larger coding project, or just to remind me to fix things that work but not as well as I'd like. In Xcode I treat these as warnings using a Run Shell Script build process that iterates through …
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- A Fresh Cup: Double Shot #739
Proficiency with XCode or Eclipse.
Nice to have:
Has experience leading small teams in delivering software projects.
Can demo their own mobile app.
Interested in Windows 8, BlackBerry or web development.
Enjoy pushing the envelope (animation, physics engines, etc).
Familiarity with web technologies.
Loves Git.
More about TWG
TWG is a web and mobile agency for designers, coders, thinkers and friends. Each day, we pour all of our creative energy into what we love, and that …
…significant development experience on a given platform (e.g. Mac OSX with XCode , or Windows with Visual Studio ), then download the SDK for your platform and follow the corresponding Getting Started Guide . You will benefit from a more integrated experience and faster device emulation.
Note for IOS: an Apple Developer License will be required if you want to deploy the app to your device (otherwise you will only be able to use the emulator).
If you have limited overall …
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