Greener grass
I ran across an interesting post this morning from Frans Bouma, of LLBLGen fame. ?He is a long-time .NET developer who felt a bit complacent in the work he had been doing on .NET and ORM development. Frans decided to explore some of the recent cool technologies to see how...
Swift Development Magazine
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Setup Swift REPL and Access from the Command Line
Swift has a very nice Read-Eval-Print-Loop (REPL) for developers to take advantage of and be able to get instant feedback on Swift code. ?This is great for trying things out without having to use Xcode 6 and a full project.
Speeding up Heroku Deploys
Anyone who deploys their Rails 3.x or 4.x utilizing the asset pipeline and doesn?t precompile those assets yet deploys to Heroku, knows it can take a really long time for your deployment.
Subscribe to Posts Via Email
It seems more and more web sites are offering users to subscribe to updates delivered by email. ?If you would rather have posts delivered right to your inbox instead of visiting the site or relying on RSS, you can now subscribe and forget.
AirPrint Where You Couldn't AirPrint Before
Our household has several iPads and iPhones. I use my iPad all the time to surf the web, reply to emails and view my Twitter stream, among other things. ?Occasionally I find it would be nice to print from the iPad, since it has AirPrint and all, but our Canon...
How Not To Provide Customer Support
I recently had an interesting interaction with a company?s support team and the results were less than spectacular. Originally, I had a much longer post planned that better detailed the problem, brought attention to the company and gave details of how poorly they handled it. ?I felt the approach was...
One of Many Worlds: Another go at Go ... failed!
Remember folks, choose the right tool for the job?
What He Said - Tim Bray ? Software in 2014
Tim Bray has a great post discussing the state of software development in 2014. ?I found myself nodding in agreement virtually all the way through this one, mainly about client-side development for mobile and the web.