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Re: Helios

#21

Post by thiagoperes » Tue, Apr 02, 2013, 7:23 PM UTC

prezjordan wrote: post #2

I swear, Mattt must code for 40 hours a day. The sheer quantity (and quality!) of his ships is mind-boggling. This looks fantastic, I'll definitely be checking this out!

I don't know how Apple didn't hired this guy yet. He should've been running the iCloud and Framework teams!

Re: Helios

#22

Post by obilgic » Tue, Apr 02, 2013, 7:34 PM UTC

This is basically a combination of these four gems:

    https://github.com/mattt/rack-in-app-purchase
    https://github.com/mattt/rack-core-data
    https://github.com/mattt/rack-passbook
    https://github.com/mattt/rack-push-notification

That is why codebase looks very clean and simple.

Re: Helios

#23

Post by applecore » Tue, Apr 02, 2013, 7:35 PM UTC

thiagoperes wrote: post #21

prezjordan wrote: post #2

I swear, Mattt must code for 40 hours a day. The sheer quantity (and quality!) of his ships is mind-boggling. This looks fantastic, I'll definitely be checking this out!

I don't know how Apple didn't hired this guy yet. He should've been running the iCloud and Framework teams!

His latest work on NSHipster is great too:

http://nshipster.com/icloud/

Re: Helios

#24

Post by iandanforth » Tue, Apr 02, 2013, 7:39 PM UTC

This looks wonderful, thanks for all the hard work! I hope this expands to encompass other platforms and languages.

Re: Helios

#25

Post by myko » Tue, Apr 02, 2013, 7:40 PM UTC

andrewljohnson wrote: post #15

Neat, I already use mattt's CLI tool for interfacing with the Apple dev site: https://github.com/mattt/cupertino

Wow, this is amazing! My least favorite part of iOS dev is visiting the horrendous dev portal. Thanks for the link.

Re: Helios

#26

Post by morefranco » Tue, Apr 02, 2013, 7:51 PM UTC

Beautiful.

Re: Helios

#27

Post by mchristoff » Tue, Apr 02, 2013, 7:52 PM UTC

android support coming?

Re: Helios

#28

Post by lnanek2 » Tue, Apr 02, 2013, 7:57 PM UTC

Wow, iOS only when Android is 75% shipping smartphones?

Re: Helios

#29

Post by MrUnderhill » Tue, Apr 02, 2013, 7:58 PM UTC

Off topic: The ultra light custom fonts a lot of websites use nowadays (looks like "Bariol" on this site), do they look bad to anyone other than me? Both in Firefox and Opera (Linux) many of the lines are invisible or barely visible (example: http://i.imgur.com/Yk0Q83G.png ). In Chrome they look a little bit better.

Re: Helios

#30

Post by degenerate » Tue, Apr 02, 2013, 8:02 PM UTC

Helios is also the moniker of a very "cloud-like" (ambient) composer named Keith Kenniff. His music is excellent for coding when you need that superior downtempo thinking background noise.

My favorite album: https://soundcloud.com/_type/sets/helios-eingya

His soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/keithkenniff