Category Archives: development

bcrypt_objc: Command Line Utilities in Objective-C

Posted on 6 July 2011 by Duane Sibilly

A sample project demonstrating how to write a command-line utility in Objective-C. Continue reading →

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Left is Right

Posted on 17 May 2011 by Duane Sibilly

In a 2005 Pimp My Code post, Wil Shipley challenged the Objective-C idiom for class instantiation. The traditional method is something like this: For a number of reasons, Wil pushed a different idiom: This felt strange to me until I … Continue reading →

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Unique Build Numbers for XCode 4

Posted on 16 May 2011 by Duane Sibilly

With XCode 4′s integration of Git for version control, I found an old post from Marcus Zarra and Matt Long of Cocoa Is My Girlfriend to be very useful. Back in 2008 they built a handy build number script. It … Continue reading →

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Modernize Your Git Workflow

Posted on 10 May 2011 by Duane Sibilly

I’ve linked previously about Vincent Driessen’s awesome git-flow extension for streamlining your source control workflow, but Laust Rud Jacobsen has posted an even better overview of how to best use git-flow.  I didn’t know about neat features like publishing feature branches … Continue reading →

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Parsing a CSV file within a ZIP archive with Python

Posted on 7 April 2011 by Duane Sibilly

Dug up an old post from an earlier incarnation of the blog today.  My logs say that folks found this at least a little bit useful.  This was originally posted on 28 April 2009: I recently had need to parse a … Continue reading →

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