OS X QBlocker A few months ago I switched from Chrome to Safari as my main browser. I enjoy using Safari to Chrome in almost every way but there was one feature of
Swift Decoding Dreamweaver STE files with Swift We have a few clients that use Dreamweaver as their editor/FTP client of choice. This unfortunately doesn't fit in with our toolchain and as we often receive STE files
Programming Peach.cool — API, PeachKit & Peach for Mac So Peach stumbled onto the scene Friday. If you haven't heard of it, it's this cool new social network that lets you post cool stuff using "magic" words.
Swift Poolside FM I fucking love Poolside FM. It's like the perfect playlist for summer. The only problem is I always had to keep it open in a tab on my browser. I
Swift Swift "AnyClass" Type TL;DR you're looking for MyClass.self When working with ConnectSDK, I came across something I hadn't before in Swift: the AnyClass type. ConnectSDK is an Objective-C based library so I'd imagine this is a rarity when working with native Swift code. Here's what
Swift Creating a Delegate in Swift The Delegate pattern is one that's widely used is developing apps for iOS and OS X and it's one that's very simple to implement in Swift. It's primarily used to alert classes of changes or interactions in other instances. For example, UITableView's delegate has
Development Customising Xcode I've been using Xcode more and more lately after picking up a couple of iOS and OS X apps. For some reason though, it took me until yesterday to finally
Development Creating a sharedInstance in Swift Or, "How the fuck to I make a singleton?" One of the patterns that seems to be very common in Cocoa is the sharedInstance pattern. You can see it in a few of the native classes to UIKit and Cocoa. For example:
Development Swift, iOS & OS X Programming For years I put off learning how to make iOS apps. Ever since their introduction, back when iOS was called iPhone OS, I wanted to craft something but Objective-C and