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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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Lookback – See how people really use your apps! See how people really use your app. Lookback makes user experience collecting a breeze. Record remotely with your iOS app — no equipment needed See the screen, gestures, face & voice of your test users. Install once. Lookback all the time.

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