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30yo. Grew up on a small farm in rural Illinois. Studied Physics / Math at a no-name liberal arts school in the Midwest. Got a job as a programmer out of school working for Sears P…

No argument here, XCode sucks. RubyMotion seems like a heavy-handed answer to that, though.

At face value, I like the idea of RubyMotion, but I can't help but feel like it's a crutch to avoid picking up a few subtleties in Objective-C. The article even points out that Rub…

Definitely beats view.backgroundColor = [UIColor redColor];! Though I'm not sure I'll ever to shake that trusty old "debugging" hack.

Good point. Updated title accordingly!

This wouldn't be a difficult enhancement. I'd probably add some sort of enum to indicate what edge the bar should be along. Some of the view layout logic would obviously need to ch…

No, those should be weak/strong. Thanks for good eye.

Thanks! I put this together over the span of a day or two, so there's a few dirty spots, but pretty happy with implementation so far.

If you are currently "manually testing in the simulator," don't forget that there are existing automated solutions for UI testing in iOS, including KIF (mentioned above) and Apple'…

I posted an item yesterday to try out the service, but noticed that it was including a link to a zoomed in map hovering right over my house in the post (the same map is included in…

I find it mindly amusing that there is super-high confidence that fans of Cat Power will own a cat. Owning a horse comes in at a distant second.

It's reportedly due to the nature of how Kickstarter handles transactions: they don't process payment until after the funding period closes (and only if the project meets or exceed…

someVariable = someVariable || {foo: 'bar'} is one of my favorite ways to cock the heads of my less JavaScript-inclined pairing partners. Both effective and terse.

Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. I was wondering if the person was making a play on words with 'silicon,' but considering his grasp of English, that might be giving too much cr…