Font Awesome Browser

I recently wanted to use one of the glyphs from the Font Awesome font as an icon. I didn’t have a good way to create the icon, as I couldn’t figure out which glyphs corresponded to which keys, with the FontAwesome.ttf file. The fontawesome-webfont.ttf was more straightforward, as the unicode character codes are provided in […]

Buzzy Bingo

I was chatting with a co-worker the other day about project management, and we mentioned the prevalence of buzzwords. Then, we mentioned Buzzword Bingo, and I decided that to implement a Bingo application as an iOS app. I looked up Buzzword Bingo in the app store and only saw two implementations. I figured I’d write […]

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-09-09

@jinyk I tried #Frank yesterday for a little toy application. It's great (and easy to use) especially if you are a fan of #cucumber #ios in reply to jinyk # 8 Myths about ARC #ios //t.co/3Pdl2X9D #

Connect Four Objective-C Implementation

I’ve been doing more Objective-C development and have been looking into testing frameworks to use with my applications. One of these is called Frank. It allows for functional testing of native iOS apps via cucumber. Another testing framework I wanted to practice with is OCUnit, which is integrated into XCode. I decided to create another […]

Detecting a Table Cell Checkmark with Frank Cucumber

Frank allows you to test native iOS applications using Cucumber. I’m pretty comfortable with Cucumber already from work with Rails, so I have been excited to try Frank out. It works by compiling your native application with an HTTP Server that your tests interact with to inspect the state of your application. It includes another […]

Generating offline maps for iOS applications

Introduction Recently, I had to implement an offline mapping solution for an iOS application. Here’s a walkthrough of how to do it. Summary I generated a tile database using TileMill. I used the Route-Me iOS library which provides a map view that supports offline tile sources. TileMill Actually, generation of the tile database was the […]

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-09-02

Spent most of the day understanding #symfony 2's caching behavior, which seemed not to work the way I would expect. # @hectcastro great news! in reply to hectcastro # @beavertapgames I love Mikey Shorts! It reminds me of grinding on Battletoads back in the day, except your game is much more forgiving. # Today's technical […]

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-08-26

@hectcastro @davekonopka great article, I love the term Dead Sea Effect in reply to hectcastro # Had a great first day at work. I got thrown right into some iOS development. It's nice to be back in the thick of things! # @hectcastro the Lord works in mysterious ways in reply to hectcastro # @jinyk […]

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-08-19

Every day is a new opportunity to work on my inadequacies. # Taking a moment to relish the beating of my heart. # Some light pairing with @hectcastro today, I'm going to miss it! # @hectcastro It's satisfying to know that I had some impact in reply to hectcastro # @speno yeah, I'll be moving […]

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-08-12

Sweet visualization of the Men's 100-meter sprint throughout history //t.co/DXARTSnn # @trevmex congrats! in reply to trevmex # Brainfuck beware: JavaScript is after you! //t.co/4BfN0FZU via /r/programming #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-08-05

Cross one off the bucket list–I slipped on a banana peel this morning. #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-07-29

@bflad have fun, take it easy in reply to bflad #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-07-22

@davekonopka looks like you bought more than you bargained for in reply to davekonopka # If you could take 15 minutes to answer this survey for my class, it would be very helpful. Thanks! https://t.co/1gRDg4uD # I re-read the first half of The Rails 3 Way after working on a Rails reporting app. It's even […]

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-07-01

4 of 5 stars to The Design of Everyday Things by Donald A. Norman //t.co/wzDQWHVH # Amber Waves of Green, 6 people, each making 5x the last. //t.co/gyGnw5ws #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-06-24

3 of 5 stars to The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera //t.co/AbcXArUU #

Jamie Ly

Developer, student, person