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Upward Mobility: Android for iOS Developers, Part 2
June 18 2013
When we last left our application, it was running on the emulator, but didn’t do much. This week, we’ll add some more controls to our activity and wire up some functionality. As a reminder, activities are roughly equivalent to view … read moreUpward Mobility: Android for iOS Developers, Part 1
June 10 2013
Like many hardcore iOS developers, I’ve eschewed learning “the other platform” because I was happy in Apple-land. In addition, the few forays I’ve made into Android development seem to show that it was a more complex and difficult platform to … read moreUpward Mobility: Give Your iOS Table Cells Some Class
June 03 2013
UITableView is the meat and potatoes of many iOS UIs, but if you restrict yourself to the off-the-shelf table cell styles, you’re missing out on a lot of opportunities for customization. By using a combination of variable cell heights and a … read moreA Commencement Speech for Graduating 2013 CS Majors
May 28 2013
Graduates, parents, guests, members of the faculty of <%= college.collegeName %>. I am honored today to have the opportunity to speak with you, as you move out of the cloistered environment of higher education, and into “the real world.” Except … read moreUpward Mobility: Special Effects Wizardry
May 20 2013
Most developers aren’t great UI designers (although, as with everything, there are exceptions). But there are a few quick tricks that can dress up an app, even if you don’t eat and breathe Photoshop. Let’s look at a simple iPad … read moreGenomics and Privacy at the Crossroads
May 13 2013
Two weeks ago, I had the privilege to attend the 2013 Genomes, Environments and Traits conference in Boston, as a participant of Harvard Medical School’s Personal Genome Project. Several hundreds of us attended the conference, eager to learn what new breakthroughs might … read moreUpward Mobility: Dump Those iOS Delegates
May 13 2013
Because so much of iOS programming involves the delegate pattern (the UITableViewDelegate being a prime example), it’s natural that when programmers are developing their own classes that need to be able to asynchronously call back to a client class, they … read moreGenomics and Privacy at the Crossroads
May 09 2013
Two weeks ago, I had the privilege to attend the 2013 Genomes, Environments and Traits conference in Boston, as a participant of Harvard Medical School’s Personal Genome Project. Several hundreds of us attended the conference, eager to learn what new breakthroughs might … read moreUpward Mobility: Unit Testing Core Data
May 06 2013
One of the more common issues that arises in creating OCUnit tests in iOS is how to test code that uses Core Data. There are several challenges, but with a little foresight, you can be sailing right along. The first … read moreUpward Mobility: Should there be only one?
April 29 2013
As long as most people can remember, the smartphone space has been a contested one. Before the iPhone became temporarily ubiquitous, RIM and Palm were fighting it out to own the market, and today you have a plethora of platforms … read moreA Day at the 2013 Genomes, Environments and Traits Conference
April 26 2013
The GET (Genomes, Environments and Traits) conference is a confluence of parties interested in the advances being made in human genomes, the measurement of how the environment impacts individuals, and how the two come together to produce traits. Sponsored by … read moreApril 22 2013
In politics, the term RINO is used to refer to a candidate who is “Republican in Name Only,” i.e., claiming the mantle of the party, but not conforming to the platform or belief system. In software development, there’s a similar … read moreUpward Mobility: Automating iOS builds with Jenkins
April 15 2013
One of the pleasant surprises I learned last year at WWDC is that Apple uses Jenkins to automated their iOS app builds. Since we were already using Jenkins to do the same thing at the Day Job, it was a … read moreWilliam Gibson got some of it right
June 25 2012
"Neuromancer," written 28 years ago, predicted a technological wonderland we're still waiting for. But its corporate dystopia is already here. read moreDeveloper Week in Review: The overhead of insecure infrastructure
June 01 2012
The news is constantly full of companies and organizations falling victim to exploits. Software developers spend a great deal of our time defending against them. But why should they have to bother at all? read moreDeveloper Week in Review: Oracle's big bet fails to pay off
May 25 2012
Oracle fails to convince a jury that Google owes them big bucks, the annual refresh of Perl has arrived, and FreeBSD says goodbye to an increasingly restrictive GCC license. read moreDeveloper Week in Review: Java on trial
May 11 2012
Google and Oracle continue to duke it out in court, with more than just Android at risk. One developer uses cat feeders as a way to look at good software, and the PHP developers take a second try at fixing a critical bug. read moreDeveloper Week in Review: Are APIs intellectual property?
May 04 2012
We look at the legal status of APIs and how the Oracle versus Google suit may be affecting it, along with the relative popularity of languages and the world's worst C programs. read moreDeveloper Week in Review: Everyone can program?
April 13 2012
Apple is the latest in a long line of entities that want to bring software development to the masses. Here's why that idea, in general, is doomed to fail. read moreDeveloper Week in Review: When giant corporations collide
April 06 2012
If Microsoft and Linux can kiss and make up, why is Oracle having such a hard time getting along with Google? Elsewhere, a look inside elaborate game cheats. read moreDeveloper Week in Review: Google I/O's ticket window open and shuts in record time
March 29 2012
Google I/O registration was there and gone so fast you might have missed it if you blinked, Microsoft is sharing more of its code Apache-style, and the leading compiler package in the world celebrates a milestone. read moreDeveloper Week in Review: The mysterious Google I/O machine
March 22 2012
While we wait to sign up for two of the major conferences of the year, Google has released a brainteaser, Java suffers another security breach, and a new language prepares for takeoff. read moreDeveloper Week in Review: When game development met Kickstarter
March 15 2012
Crowdsourcing is changing how software development gets funded. It's also driving one of the great reference guides of the 20th century out of print. read moreDeveloper Week in Review: The new iPad and the big meh
March 08 2012
Apple unveils pretty much what it was expected to unveil, and decides to treat Android as a cash cow rather than an enemy. Meanwhile, the Raspberry Pi is finally out, so let the hacking begin. read moreDeveloper Week in Review: Flash marginalization continues
February 23 2012
If you use Linux, either start using Chrome as your browser or get ready to give up Flash. A developer faces execution in Iran because of how someone used software he wrote, and the world gets to see what it's like to build iPads and iPhones. read moreDeveloper Week in Review: NASA says goodbye to big iron
February 16 2012
This week, NASA marked the end of an era, as the last of its big iron is retired. Microsoft continues to signal that its forays into open source are legitimate. And a new open source gaming project has a little extra horse-power, thanks to the fans behind it. read moreDeveloper Week in Review: A pause to consider patents
February 10 2012
We take a look at two major events that rocked the technology intellectual property wars, centered on a courtroom in Texas and a standards body a continent away. read moreDeveloper Week in Review: Brother, can you spare $100 billion?
February 02 2012
If you haven't heard that Facebook is going public, I hope you live under a comfortable rock. While you wait for the IPO, brush up your Lua if you run a wiki, just don't leave any empty files lying around. read moreDeveloper Week in Review: Sometimes, form does need to follow function
January 27 2012
The latest rumors have Apple eyeing the remote control market, but does minimalistic design work for remotes? Australia wants to impose requirements on ISPs, but at what infrastructure cost? And would you let closed-source software keep you alive? read moreDeveloper Week in Review: Early thoughts on iBooks Author
January 20 2012
It looks like Apple plans to totally disrupt yet another industry, but is that a good thing? Richard Stallman puts free above usability, and Microsoft adds incentives to Visual Studio — but some of them encourage the wrong behaviors. read moreDeveloper Week in Review: A big moment for Kinect?
January 13 2012
Microsoft thinks the Kinect has a bright future with the PC. Elsewhere, we have a new contender for worst software patent ever, and the mayor of New York City wants to get his geek on. read moreDeveloper Week in Review: 2012 preview edition
January 05 2012
It's a brand new year, time to look ahead to the stories that will have developers talking in 2012. Mobile will remain a hot topic, the cloud is absorbing everything, and jobs appear to be heading back to the U.S. read moreDeveloper Year in Review: 2011 Edition
December 22 2011
It's time for our annual look back at the year that was, when mobile ruled the world, HTML5 PWNED Flash, Drupal and Hadoop were the hot buzzwords for your resume, and a new batch of languages tried to become stars. read moreDeveloper Week in Review: Siri is the talk of the town
November 30 2011
Everyone either wants to be just like Siri or thinks it's (she's?) a waste of time. Stanford expands its free CS curriculum, and JavaScript gains encryption and a JVM implementation. read moreDeveloper Week in Review: Adobe sends Flex to Apache
November 18 2011
Adobe just gave away Flex, a new single-board computer might dethrone Arduino as the tool of choice for makers, and researchers bring us a step closer to our robotic overlords. read moreDeveloper Week in Review: Adobe raises the white flag on mobile Flash
November 10 2011
Flash isn't dead, but Adobe is checking into hospice options. Eclipse adds another language to the list of ones almost but not exactly like Java. And how do you find good programmers? Probably not with brainteasers. read moreDeveloper Week in Review: Adobe raises the white flag on mobile Flash
November 10 2011
Flash isn't dead, but Adobe is checking into hospice options. Eclipse adds another language to the list of ones almost but not exactly like Java. And how do you find good programmers? Probably not with brainteasers. read moreDeveloper Week in Review: The hijacking of an insulin pump
November 03 2011
If you own an insulin pump, someone out there might have a hack with your name on it. Google decides to make high-volume Maps API users pony up some cash, and the creator of Linux goes after C++. read moreDeveloper Week in Review: These things always happen in threes
October 26 2011
One of the earliest language pioneers, John McCarthy, passed last week. Elsewhere, one developer admits he's using the GPL to force companies to pay him, and the creator of the "West Wing" is on the short list to write the film version of Steve Jobs' life. read moreDeveloper Week in Review: Talking to your phone
October 21 2011
This week, we ask if Apple's Siri has more than novelty value, and decide it does. Open Office needs you (or at least your money) to stay afloat, and Google bends to developer pressure and finally adds SQL support to its cloud computing platform. read moreDeveloper Week in Review: Talking to your phone
October 21 2011
This week, we ask if Apple's Siri has more than novelty value, and decide it does. Open Office needs you (or at least your money) to stay afloat, and Google bends to developer pressure and finally adds SQL support to its cloud computing platform. read moreDeveloper Week in Review: Two giants fall
October 13 2011
Better late than never, a few thoughts on Steve Jobs. Also, a Unix pioneer leaves us, and Google's dirty laundry is accidentally hung out to dry. read moreDeveloper Week in Review: Android proves fruitful for Microsoft
September 29 2011
Samsung agrees to pay Microsoft royalties for Android use. Elsewhere, Oracle keeps the SPARC line alive, and the hackability of voting machines is exposed. read moreHigh voltage music: Behind the scenes with ArcAttack
September 27 2011
ArcAttack creates a maniacal combination of music and mad science that uses half-million-volt Tesla coils to play songs. We caught up with Steve Ward, a recent addition to the ArcAttack crew, at MakerFaire NY and asked him about the technology behind the show. read moreDeveloper Week in Review: webSOS
September 23 2011
WebOS is going to the great operating system repository in the sky, Oracle finds yet another way to peeve developers, and the UK tries to create a new generation of programmers. read moreDeveloper Week in Review: HP fires up the TouchPad production line one more time
September 01 2011
The TouchPad's $99 price point proves enticing for consumers and — oddly — HP itself, James Gosling leaves Google, and a possible iPhone 5 leak bears a distinct resemblance to the iPhone 4 leak. read moreRecent Posts | All O'Reilly Posts
Webcast: Developing Effective OCUnit and UI Automation Testing for iOS
January 11, 2011
The iPhone is a powerful development platform, but can be a difficult one to develop effective testing methodologies for. The OCUnit framework and the UIAutomation framework can allow developers to create unit tests with code coverage, and user ...
Webcast: Open Source Language Roundtable
July 22, 2009
We all have our favorite languages in our tool-belt, but is there a best overall language? If anyone can hash that out, it will be the members of this roundtable discussion, some of the stars of the open source language space. This wide-ranging session...
Webcast: Preparing Enterprise Applications for the iTunes Store
October 05, 2011
For individual developers, getting an application into the iTunes App Store is pretty straightforward, once you know the tricks. For developers working in large companies, there's a number of legal and administrative complexities that can make your...
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