Make thousands of unique 64 bit identifiers at every millisecond without the need of global synchronization.
State Restoration Hiccups with Swift
Programming Cocoa apps with Swift has it’s many caveats. Many of these are derived from the fact that there are two language runtimes at play, the incumbent Objective-C runtime which is used by system frameworks and the Swift runtime as a newcomer. Here is one hard lesson learned (and workaround) when dealing with state restoration problems in a Swift app.
Trying Core ML with Swift Playgrounds
How to safely try out Apple’s new machine learning libraries without bricking your main machine. Goodbye beta blues, hello new ideas!
A Swift Promise
Futures/promises are great to coordinate persistence and views to ensure responsiveness in today’s native apps. However bringing thousands of lines of foreign code just to have this small functionality may not be cool. Here’s a hundred-line implementation of futures/promises in Swift 3.1
WordPress JetPack’s Vulnerability
Having social sharing functions on every page in your blog seems intuitively useful. However these could easily be exploited by malicious people to do bad things and pass the blame onto you. Learn what is the problem behind these social media buttons and what you should do as a webmaster.
Touch Bar Design Tips
It’s high time you update your macOS app to support the Touch Bar. You’ll need to have some strategy on how to design your Touch Bar interface – don’t just pour any buttons into it. Here’s some tips on how to work this new hardware.
Should You do Free Work to Get Hired?
Have you been asked to do a sample project as part of a hiring process? I’ve done it, not only once but **twice** as part of the same process. Here are those projects. You should be able to learn a thing or two from it Either learn the iOS programming techniques behind these two 40-hour projects or learn how to hunt for purple squirrels.
Is Your Server Ready for iOS 9 and El Capitan?
Apple is enforcing a stronger encryption that applications need to use when connecting to their backends. Is your server secure enough to meet Apple’s standards? Being HTTPS doesn’t necessarily imply that it’s good enough.
Apple’s latest operating system updates – iOS 9 and OS X El Capitan – are enforcing stronger network encryption. This is wonderful for users – however it could mean extra work for developers and system administrators.
In short, applications are strongly encouraged to use HTTPS, TLS 1.2 and perfect forward secrecy. You might be saying to yourself, “We’re already serving through HTTPS, so we’re good.” As it turns out, it may not be that simple. It isn’t for Microsoft and you could be affected as well. Yes, at least one of Microsoft’s web services isn’t yet up to Apple’s security standards as of this writing.
Why technical candidates are ignoring you
You are a technology recruiter but having difficulty in getting leads for talents? You might want to improve your approach. Here are what some of your lesser competitors are doing and how can you grow above them.
How To Use Your Network Drive as a Git Server
Do you know that WD My Cloud EX2 can serve as a git server for a small team? Now you do and here’s how you can set it up.
How to Design Apps (Even if you’re not a designer)
You want to design apps? You either need to hire a designer or become one. Luckily it isn’t too hard to come up with a reasonable design.
Making Cocoapods Play Nice with Xcode Maven Plugin
If you have to use Maven to build your Xcode projects and lusting to move your dependency management to Cocoapods, here is a relief for you. Read on for a tip on how to get Cocoapods work in a Java-dominated enterprise.
Integrating iAd with Cocos2D
How to incorporate iAd to your Cocos2D director view.
How to Fix Your Five Year Old Cocos2D Game
Some lessons learned when I upgraded AirKill from Cocos2D 0.8 to 3.0. If your game is on a very old version of Cocos2D, you’ll want to read through this to save you some time.