Learning A Bit

Tag: education

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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.…

  • 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…

  • The First One

    Hello, and welcome! As you can tell from the title, this is my first post. Getting this blog up and running was originally going to be the original, but there are SOOOOOOO many posts about Wordpress already… I intend to update this as often as possible. Keeping track of my foray into the creation side of technology.…