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One of the saddest aspects of being a Big Nerd Ranch instructor in 2016 is that students these days do not appreciate the Michael Knight is to Delegation, as RoboCop is to Subclassing discussion of yesteryear. From Cocoa …
I’ve been to multiple CocoaConfs as an attendee and it’s with great pride I’m happy to say I’ll be a speaker at one soon. CocoaConf is a traveling conference focused on Apple technologies that has been around since 2011. …
I’ve been working on a new Mac app for a month or so and it feels good to be building a product of my own again. I figured I’d blog the experience and hence, the new blog: Rested Experience. Feedback and retweets very …
Final Parts List: http://pcpartpicker.com/list/4Wjcf8 I’m a fairly serious/casual gamer (as in serious love of many games, casual in that I can only play so many hours a week because of other life responsibilities). I …
Lots of WWDC predictions out there this week. Here’s a dream of mine. Sadly one that I’ve given up on, at least from Apple. A Better Core Data. Tracking state is 1970s thinking. We should be tracking changes over time …
One of the many interesting benefits I get working for Big Nerd Ranch is the opportunity to participate in many fun and unique events. One of the bigger ones is called Clash of the Coders. Clash of the Coders is an …
I came across this post from Rico Jones on how he records the Portland Ruby Brigade’s monthly meetings and thought I’d do something similar for how we record the Philly CocoaHead presentations. Why Only Main Talks This …
Local company Wildbit has been nice enough to host a running series of meetup events focused on running a software business and all that it can entail. Last night we discussed Managing Remote Teams and as a remote …
This answer / revelation caused a bit of a stir in the Philly CocoaHeads Slack so I figured I’d share it here as well. Lots of people know and live by Xcode’s Quick Open Menu. You hit Command-Shift-O and start typing the …
Being the lead organizer of the Philly chapter of CocoaHeads, I always welcome the opportunity to chat with members of other meetups. It’s great to compare notes on how we run our groups, what’s worked and what’s failed. …
I gave a talk at Philly CocoaHeads last week reviewing various ways to consume JSON using Swift, including a preview a new open source project we have coming out soon™ from Big Nerd Ranch called Freddy. Update April 27, …
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Day 31: Skitch This post is part of a larger series where for 31 days I’m posting a story about a particular product or service I’ve come to enjoy. Skitch is a screenshot and notation tool from Evernote. With Skitch you …
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Day 30: OmniDiskSweeper This post is part of a larger series where for 31 days I’m posting a story about a particular product or service I’ve come to enjoy. When choosing software for this series I particularly get a …
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Day 29: iOctocat, GitHub on your iPhone and iPad This post is part of a larger series where for 31 days I’m posting a story about a particular product or service I’ve come to enjoy. For mobile GitHub management nothing …
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Day 28: Reeder This post is part of a larger series where for 31 days I’m posting a story about a particular product or service I’ve come to enjoy. I had a bit of an RSS resurgence when I got my iPad Pro last year and my …
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Day 27: Flixster This post is part of a larger series where for 31 days I’m posting a story about a particular product or service I’ve come to enjoy. We just had a great year of movies and 2016 keeps them coming. The app …
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Day 26: Dash This post is part of a larger series where for 31 days I’m posting a story about a particular product or service I’ve come to enjoy. Dash is a super nice and clean API Documentation Browser. I use Dash with …
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Day 25: Sketch This post is part of a larger series where for 31 days I’m posting a story about a particular product or service I’ve come to enjoy. Sketch is a vector-based design tool for the Mac that is very good for …
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Day 24: SuperDuper! This post is part of a larger series where for 31 days I’m posting a story about a particular product or service I’ve come to enjoy. This is a timely recommendation as just yesterday I had a bit of a …
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Day 23: Status Board This post is part of a larger series where for 31 days I’m posting a story about a particular product or service I’ve come to enjoy. Status Board is an iOS app from Panic that lets you turn an old …
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