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Will Swift be the next king of server side development?

Posted on January 13, 2016 by Shine Technologies

In June 2015, Apple announced at WWDC that they were open-sourcing the Swift language and its runtime libraries. On December 3rd that year they made good on their promise. In this post I’d like to talk about why this is significant, particularly for server-side … Continue reading →

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iOS Developers and Designers: Stickin’ together is what good waffles do!

Posted on September 9, 2011 by Shine Technologies

We’ve all heard developers say it: “I’m a terrible drawer” or “I’ve got no design skills”. Perhaps we’re even guilty of saying it ourselves – I know I am. But after attending this year’s Swipe Conference I now subscribe to … Continue reading →

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New iOS Developers Shouldn’t Use Interface Builder

Posted on July 23, 2011 by Shine Technologies

When I first started learning Objective-C and the iOS SDK 2.x a few years ago, one thing that I constantly struggled to get my head around was Interface Builder.  More specifically, why should I use it and how it could … Continue reading →

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Continuous Deployment of iOS Apps with Jenkins and TestFlight

Posted on June 23, 2011 by Shine Technologies

I thought it was about time I should put together a simple guide on using Jenkins to build your iOS application – and for those of us that use the awesome testflightapp.com website for managing our iOS app distribution for … Continue reading →

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How to bridge Ruby and AppleScript

Posted on September 25, 2009 by Shine Technologies

Not that long ago I gave a demo in which I showed how it was possible to control iTunes from my laptop using native Ruby code. This was all possible because of a great little gem called rb-appscript. rb-appscript is … Continue reading →

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Run-loops vs. Threads in Cocoa

Posted on June 2, 2009 by Shine Technologies

As a relative newby to the world of Cocoa programming (on the iPhone in particular), I have spent some time trying to understand if and when you’d use a run-loop instead of launching a separate thread. I was unable to … Continue reading →

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Tiger + Rails + Leopard = Ouch

Posted on November 19, 2007 by Shine Technologies

After having gone through the pain of installing Ruby on Rails on my MacBook Pro running Tiger (OS X 10.4) I was pleased to see that Leopard (OS X 10.5) ships with Rails ‘pre-installed’ and ready to go. So, after … Continue reading →

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