Code Like a Chef: Work Clean | The Table XI Blog Interesting concept, specially the part gotten from the Ad Hoc at Home cooking book (by Thomas Keller ), which got me to dig out for the full text snippet ( emphasis added): Being organized – as we say in our kitchen, working clean – is a skill to develop. We call it mise-en-place , French for, literally, ‘put in place....
Creators need an immediate connection with what they’re making Bret Victor ’s guiding principle (via his talk Inventing on Principle )
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Pairing vs. Code Review: Comparing Developer Cultures Prerequisites for success There are a few nonnegotiables that are common across both of these paradigms. Solid continuous integration Talented core developers Agreement on the importance of code quality Iterative self-organization The joys of pairing Everybody gets better together Pairing can balance the natural daily ebbs and flows of energy A peer generates motivation for self-improvement Tactical decisions are made more easily and with better results [Stronger] concept of collective code ownership but,...
Open Source: Building on the Shoulders of Giants CocoaPods.org – The Dependency Manager for Objective C Alcatraz : Xcode Package Manager Tooling: Teaching a Computer to Fish nomad :: world-class command line utilities for iOS development xctool — replacement for Apple’s xcodebuild (via Third Wave Objective-C // Speaker Deck ) ( Source: http://cocoapods.org/ )
Using one tab per task , instead of one tab per file, and applying Xcode behaviours to automatically switch between them. (via Triangle CocoaHeads May: Xcode Behaviors Presentation – Jay Thrash) See also How to make Xcode’s UI work for you (maybe) ( Source: https://player.vimeo.com/ )
Myth – CSS the way it was imagined. Myth is a preprocessor that lets you write pure CSS without having to worry about slow browser support, or even slow spec approval. It’s like a CSS polyfill. Variables : The same syntax from the CSS spec, using the var() function . Math : The same syntax from the CSS spec, using the calc() function . Color Manipulation : Straight from Tab Atkins’s draft for a future version of the spec....
Origami is a free toolkit for Quartz Composer—created by the Facebook Design team—that makes interactive design prototyping easy and doesn’t require programming. (via Origami – Design prototyping with Quartz Composer )
What OO Fails to Do What object oriented programming fails to do is express collaborations between objects. To show you exactly what I mean, let’s take a look at two system operations (two use cases) requiring the same group of objects collaborating with each other. (…) DCI to the Rescue DCI is a paradigm invented by Trygve Reenskaug (the inventor of the MVC pattern) to solve these problems. (via Data Context Interaction: The Evolution of the Object Oriented Paradigm – SitePoint )...
My template for when I need to do bash scripts with both a “human” and a “machine” interface: Template for interactive bash scripts: supports command line options with values prompts for any missing parameters/arguments https://gist.github.com/hugocf/8147608 Update 2016-06-02: Moved to repo @hugocf/scripts
Bigfoot A jQuery plugin for empowering footnotes. Inspired by Instapaper. Built for mobile devices and responsive designs.
IntentKit — The iOS tool for inter-app linking IntentKit is an open-source iOS library that makes it easier to link to other apps. It’s sort of like Android’s Intents or Windows Phone’s Contracts. For example: If the user has multiple web browsers installed, this will display a modal sheet (similar to an iOS 7-style UIActivityViewController) listing each available application.
This brings us to the magical three step process for becoming an expert at anything: Watch someone Try it yourself and experiment Teach someone else (via Programming Your Brain: The Art of Learning in Three Steps | BitNative ) See also another image representation:
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Replacing The User Story With The Job Story We frame every design problem in a Job, focusing on the triggering event or situation, the motivation and goal, and the intended outcome: When _____ , I want to _____ , so I can _____ . For example: When an important new customer signs up, I want to be notified, so I can start a conversation with them. See also 5 Tips For Writing A Job Story:...
Canvas – Simplify iOS Development Animate in Xcode without code
How many bugs and wasted CPU cycles and instances of human frustration (not to mention bad design) have resulted from that one small shortcut about 40 years ago? Keep that in mind next time you want to cut a corner in your code. Rob Pike (via A lesson in shortcuts. Long ago, as the design of the Unix… )
The Twelve-Factor App In the modern era, software is commonly delivered as a service: called web apps, or software-as-a-service. The twelve-factor app is a methodology for building software-as-a-service apps (…) Codebase Dependencies Config Backing Services Build, release, run Processes Port binding Concurrency Disposability Dev/prod parity Logs Admin processes
ImageOptim optimizes images — so they take up less disk space and load faster — by finding best compression parameters and by removing unnecessary comments and color profiles. It handles PNG, JPEG and GIF animations. (via ImageOptim — better Save For Web )