Gruber's dream iPad Pro vs. the real iPad Pro When the iPad launched more than 10 years ago, John Gruber wrote a lengthy piece on Daring Fireball. In his opionon, the 256 MB of RAM were the biggest hardware weakness of the
Tips by Sundell Although I treated myself with an AppCode-license the other day, I'm still a daily user of Xcode. And I'm also a subscriber of John Sundell's Swift by Sundell's RSS-feed. A few days ago
swift Running Tests in pre-commit hooks and alternatives A few months ago, I bought myself a fancy MacBook Pro. You know, one of those fancy devices with the fancy TouchBar, a nice Retina screen and a broken-by-default keyboard. And to make
objectivec Customizing UISlider — Either color or image We're working on a pretty useful — at least we hope so — feature right now. Part of this feature is a slightly customized UISlider. In the end, it should look pretty similar to the
general stuff Some Thoughts on Code Review A few days ago, Max and me recorded a new episode of the German Codestammtisch-podcast. We talked about code review and pull requests. In the last couple of days I witnessed again, how
objectivec (!QuickFix) != (QuickFix != nil) A colleague of mine works on a pretty important feature. He uses a seperate git-branch for this, so that his changes can be reviewed and thoroughly tested before being merged into the app.
Preview CSS for redmine-Textile in BBEdit A few years ago, I bought a license for BBEdit, a commercial text editor for macOS, that doesn't suck. But: I never read the manual and so I used it not very often.
objectivec Save NSSecureCoding-decoding for Dummies After my last wrong assumption, that I don't need to look up easy things, I stumbled upon this assumption again. This week, I failed to implement NSSecureCoding the right way. In the end,
objectivec Variable declaration in switch-case Welcome back to Objective C-land! Last week, I doubted my own sanity more than once. One day, for example, I refactored some code to use an enum and I nearly dispaired on a
general stuff All Things Version Controlled These are some things, articles and thoughts about version control. You are already using it, of course you are, aren't you? Recently, we recorded an episode for our German podcast. For nearly 50
Buildings from the 19th Century In my new job I'm dealing with a lot of legacy code and from time to time, I want to set it all on fire and burn it to the ground and nuke
objectivec Bordered Slicing in Xcode This is another small blogpost about how I solved a little issue. This time it's about borded buttons, rounded corners and slicing. First things first: I got a new job as — surprise 🎉 — iOS
objectivec SecItemDelete without limits Together with a friend I'm working on a small app for iOS written in good ol' Objective-C. It's a (another) small timetracking application with an optional backend. The credentials for the backend are
No SwiftConf this year More than one month ago — one day after I published the last story — I got fired. That's one reason why I haven't written any blogposts since then. I'm still getting paid until the
swift isActive = true vs. NSLayoutConstraint.activate The whole UI of the app, I helped to develop, is written in code. No Storyboards, no XIBs, just Swift. Someone made this decision looooong ago. Nevertheless, we're using AutoLayout, just like every
Dear recruiter In April 2018, I wrote an article and published it on my personal blog. This is an updated version of the original post. A few weeks ago I wrote a thread on twitter.
swift Me, my future self and self A colleague of mine complained, that I use self too much. In Objective-C, it was everywhere, but he sent me this blogpost and recommended me to use self in Swift sparingly and only
swift preconditionFailure One of my goals for May 2018 was to finally read The Pragmatic Programmer. I haven't succeeded yet, that's why this year, June was May, Extended Edition and July is June, Extended Edition.