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by cozykozy 11y ago
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 Portrait Studio (no lie). Wrote a piece of OSS software
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by cozykozy 14y ago
No argument here, XCode sucks. RubyMotion seems like a heavy-handed answer to that, though.
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by cozykozy 14y ago
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 RubyMotion doesn't hide much of the API from you, so in some wa
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by cozykozy 14y ago
Definitely beats view.backgroundColor = [UIColor redColor];! Though I'm not sure I'll ever to shake that trusty old "debugging" hack.
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by cozykozy 14y ago
Good point. Updated title accordingly!
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Reader-submitted Objective-C / XCode tips of 2012(nshipster.com)
81 points by cozykozy 14y ago|21 comments
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by cozykozy 14y ago
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 change, namely the glow effect would need to rotate and reposi
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by cozykozy 14y ago
No, those should be weak/strong. Thanks for good eye.
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by cozykozy 14y ago
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.
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CKSideBarController, a UITabBarController for iPad(cozykozy.com)
34 points by cozykozy 14y ago|7 comments
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Show HN: CKCalendar, an easily customized calendar for iOS(github.com)
1 points by cozykozy 14y ago|0 comments
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by cozykozy 14y ago
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's own UIAutomation. I've actually written a small framework
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by cozykozy 14y ago
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 the "yardsale" version of the post). I'm a little cautious
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by cozykozy 14y ago
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.
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Show HN: Mechanic.js, a jQuery-esque UIAutomation library(github.com)
5 points by cozykozy 15y ago|0 comments
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by cozykozy 15y ago
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 exceeds its goal). Amazon Payments is basically the only payment p
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by cozykozy 15y ago
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.
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by cozykozy 15y ago
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 credit.