If you’re a developer, you probably have already read it, or read about it: The Duct Tape Programmer. There are some really good points about this article–but it’s clear that the article itself is written by someone who is not a duct tape programmer. The differentiation between an Architecture Astronaut and a duct tape programmer [...]
Wouldn’t it be great to have a drawing program on the Macintosh which, after you’ve composed the artwork, can export the drawing commands for Cocoa’s Quartz or the iPhone, so you can cut and paste code to draw the same thing in your program? I thought that would be so cool. And now it turns [...]
It turns out the App Store does not accept version numbers other than those in the format ( number [ '.' number ]* ), which means I had to change the script to insert 1.1.$version for the version number.
So after the suggestions given in the comments section the build script I’m using now uses PlistBuddy (which I wanted to use before but didn’t know the correct path), and increments only if we’re building the release build. (It was an interesting exercise to see my project’s build number go up into the thousands–but a [...]
One recent trend is to use HTTP in order to send data between a client and server. Between protocols built on top of SOAP and XML/RPC (and yes, I’ve built code on top of XML/RPC, and have a Java XML/RPC library), it’s not all that uncommon to send text commands over HTTP. And it makes [...]
So the designer I work with gives me colors to use in our application as a web hex color specification, and I need to put it into my iPhone application as RGB values in the range [0,1]. Or I need to pick some color, and I pick an H=210° color, but I need to plug [...]