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  • FizzBuzz Still Hard… and Still Useless

    I hear that many of the applicants we interview still have a hard time with FizzBuzz and other simple examples of looping, testing, and printing integers. This was true in 2007 when Coding Horror wrote this a famous blog post on Fizz Buzz, true in 2010 when DanSignerman famously asked StackOverflow about it, and true…

  • The Cost of Doing Internet Business

    A couple decades ago the costs of putting up a website seemed really reasonable–especially as compared to pre-Internet media like books, newspapers, and encyclopedias. A lone webmaster toiling away in the wee hours of the night could get a site up and running with HTML and CGI by the break of dawn. Pages were static,…

  • UITableViewController with Clouds

    I wrote a tutorial that demos how to use a couple of UITableViewControllers, a segue, the Storyboard, a simple model, and as little code as possible to create an iOS app. https://github.com/jpavley/Smith You’ll find the code and a very detailed README on Github. It’s open source and I hope you find it useful.

  • Book Binder Update

    My comic book collection iOS app continues to evolve. I continue to strip out features and focus on the core mission: Buy a comic, snap a photo, add it to your collection. With that in mind the UX now looks a lot like a photo app that has been preconfigured for storing comic book metadata.…

  • Book Binder App Update: Variant Chaos!

    I’m still working on that comic book collecting app! It’s starting to look and feel like a real app but still has a long journey of test driven development ahead of it! Here’s what it looks like so far… On the left is the Summary View and on the right is the Detail View. The…

  • Unit Tests Equal Awesome

    I’m working on a hobby project iOS app that lets me track my comic book collection. I’m interested in comic books because all these super heroes from my misspent youth rule the world of popular culture. While the cool kids were playing sports and going to parties I stayed at home reading comic books. In…

  • iPhone to the Max

    I’m on that Apple program that where you pay for an iPhone over time and you get the opportunity to update immediately when a new model comes along, as it does every year. While this is a very good deal for Apple, almost like a subscription service, it’s a good deal for me too. I…

  • Is It 1998 Again?

    Set the Dial to 1998 Let’s power up the time machine and take a quick trip back to the wide world of tech around 1998. Microsoft was the Khaleesi of software and controlled a vast empire through Windows, Office, and Internet Explorer. Microsoft marched its conquering army of apps over the desktop and through the…

  • Future Shock Reloaded

    When I was a lad I would sneak into my father’s den and ransack his library. This was the early 1970s and I discovered all sorts of treasures, many of which I could barely comprehend, including The Godfather and even The French Lieutenant’s Woman. But the one book my pre-teen brain could parse was Future…

  • Meeting Madness

    It’s only getting worse. And there is no cure. I’m talking about meetings. Most sapiens are natural social networkers. And that means we need to know what is going on, who is doing what, how it’s going to be done, where we’re doing it, and why we’re doing it this way and not that way.…