Programming – Page 4

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

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.

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.

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.

The Downside of Using TimerTask with Handler in a Multithreaded Application

I would like to discuss on the downside of using TimerTask with Handler in a multithreaded application for Android, and why using IntentService along with TimerTask is a good idea.

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.

Painless UIAlertView

Have you been using UIAlertView and find it a big hassle just to get a simple Yes/No answer from the user? This could just be the medicine to cure your pain.

Seeding iCloud Core Data Store

Deciding when to pre-populate a Core Data store is a real headache when you need to sync that data store across many devices. However you can learn from my experience and save you the headache that I had to went through.

Introducing the Core Data Controller

Here is a document class replacement for managing your library-style app based on Core Data. All the goodness of NSDocument / UIDocument with just the right functionalities when you don’t need to expose document-management functionality to your users.

Category: Programming (page 4)

A Swift Promise

Should You do Free Work to Get Hired?

Is Your Server Ready for iOS 9 and El Capitan?

How To Use Your Network Drive as a Git Server

Making Cocoapods Play Nice with Xcode Maven Plugin

The Downside of Using TimerTask with Handler in a Multithreaded Application

Integrating iAd with Cocos2D

How to Fix Your Five Year Old Cocos2D Game

Painless UIAlertView

Seeding iCloud Core Data Store

Introducing the Core Data Controller

Reverse-Engineering iCloud Keychain

Programmatically Sending Rich Text e-mail with Attachments on the Mac

Big Data Trends