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Parse Server Defeated
I have hit another stage of feeling like I have accomplished something. I now have my own Parse Server running. It also has a dashboard and cloud code. Plus, (wait for it…), it is also has background jobs!!! The jobs turned out to be considerably less complicated than I thought. It may not be a “proper”…
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Why Documentation is So Important
Or why a lack of it could be deadly. A few months ago, I was helping a friend with a project. We were looking for a proof of concept, and didn’t want to build EVERYTHING just to see if it was a good idea. We found out about Company X, and their new product might…
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Time Flies…
Wow, it has been just over 2 months since my last post… A lot has happened since then. I have actually started looking for a new job! Instead of complaining about my current situation, I am doing something about it. I have not gone dove into the deep end yet, but I am getting wet,…
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The Problem with Depending on Others
Unless you live under a rock, I’m sure you’ve heard Parse.com, which was purchased by omnipresent Facebook, is being shut down. This is a “sad” moment for me because Parse is one of the products that helped ease me into the journey of programming. I was able to focus on learning iOS development, and not have to…
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Hard Lesson Learned
Sometimes we take things for granted… Often times, it is things we have already completed. Especially in coding. I may have mentioned this before, but version history can be your friend. Only if you invite that friend over, give them some pizza and offer them a drink. If not, version control is just as effective…
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Cells aren’t just cells
I was making a table view controller with custom cells. The cells needed to have an image and a new title. There are tutorials of how to subclass the UITableViewCell, but for some reason I didn’t want to go that direction. Then I remember a little app I was playing with where this was accomplished…
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Polishing the Wheel
I am “making” an app with a log in screen, and using Parse as the back end, though this works for any login situation. I wanted a simple way to dismiss multiple view controllers using only code. The key word is “simple”. For some reason I was being stubborn and didn’t want to use a navigation…
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Why do I do it?
I have known something for quite some time, but now I am willing to admit it to myself and to whomever is reading this… As my mother would say, I’ve been half assing it. It’s time to commit to taking control of my future. My life isn’t “bad”, I jut know it can be better…
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Yeah, Github
My good buddy Github. Or as I like to call it, “Git”. We’re close like that. Ok, maybe not as close as an aspiring developer and a version control system should be. Since we are in confession mode, I will admit, I have not used Git on a large scale mode. For personal use, it…
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Mmmmm…. Success!!!
Or something that tastes a bit like it! I know, last post, I said I would discuss my foray into Github. I was premature with that statement. I was running into an issue where I needed something to run (func1), but only AFTER something else did (func2), because func2 depended on the results of func1.…