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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.…
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Roadblocks are a necessary pain
Ouch. That is how I feel after my encounter with NSJSONSerialization… In the tutorial, there is instruction on how to handle a simple JSON object, but I needed something for nested content. Add that to Swift’s changing language, and (from what I have NOT been able to find), the poor documentation on the subject, I feel…
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Plowing through
So, on iOS, I just completed a tutorial for downloading and scraping web content to post in an app. I am not going to debate the usefulness of such a practice, it can be beneficial as even today, every site may not have an API for public use. I will instead voice my frustration at…
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Reality Pokes Its Head In…
…takes a look, and is disappointed. The accountability aspect is starting to take hold. It is VERY easy to say I’m going to do 1, 2 & 3. It is another to blow it off. And completely another to look back and see the progress, or in this case, the lack thereof. To say the…