Cavewoman Debugging

6: Exploring AutoLayout

Laura Dickey — 2015-06-11T16:04:52-04:00

Cavewoman Debugging Episode 6 - Exploring Autolayout

Of course, Apple introduced a bunch of new AutoLayout classes and techniques during WWDC this week. So, make sure you watch the AutoLayout-related videos at Apple.

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Show notes:

iOS Auto Layout Demystified - 2nd Edition by Erica Sadun
Note - this link takes you to a site that has a sale running on this book and others during the week of WWDC!

Sessions 8 and 9 of the iTunes U Stanford course Developing iOS 8 Apps with Swift
https://itunes.apple.com/us/course/developing-ios-8-apps-swift/id961180099

iOS 6 by Tutorials at raywenderlich.com - Chapters 3 and 4

My Favorite AutoLayout Library

Masonry at Github - for Objective-C

SnapKit at Github - for Swift

Other AutoLayout Libraries

FLKAutoLayout

SDCAutolLayout

Erica Sadun’s Constraint Library

My picks for the Week
TV - Binge-watching Gilmore Girls on Netflix!
Games - TwoDots on iOS
Books - Mindy Kaling’s Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

5: Common Design Patterns in Cocoa Development

Laura Dickey — 2015-05-29T10:40:20-04:00

Cavewoman Debugging Episode 5 - Common Design Patterns in iOS Development

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Show notes:

Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software, by Erich Gamma (Author), Richard Helm (Author), Ralph Johnson (Author), John Vlissides (Author)

Cocoa Design Patterns, by Erik Buck (Author), Donald Yacktman (Author)

Brief Description of Design Patterns from Apple

Model-View-Controller from Apple

Thread-safe singleton implementation

I talked so much in the podcast about design patterns that I completely forgot to do my picks for the week! Unfortunately, I’ve been too busy with coding and volunteer work to try out new games, but I have finally moved on to the third Discworld book! For music, anything that gets me up and moving, so I’m choosing the song most recently added to my “Songs to get me moving” playlist. Games, still addicted to SongPop!

My picks for the Week
Book - Equal Rites (Discworld) by Terry Pratchett

Music - “Shut Up and Dance” by WALK THE MOON

Games - SongPop - User name ne.ribbon if you want to challenge me!

Comments, questions, ideas for future topics? Email cavewoman@littlepotatosoftware.com

4: Solving Programming Problems with Demo Projects

Laura Dickey — 2015-05-19T15:13:13-04:00

Episode 4 of Cavewoman Debugging - Solving Programming Problems with Demo Projects Listen: Podcast AlphaTalk - the app that prompted this episodehttp://asciiwwdc.com - Transcripts of WWDC videos http://raywenderlich.com - Great tutorials http://www.cocoapods.org - Cocoa source code https://developer.apple.com/videos/wwdc/2014/?id=512 - WWDC videos from 2014 https://github.com/SnapKit/Masonry - Masonry auto layout library http://revealapp.com - Mac App to inspect views on iOS Anything but ProgrammingJavelin written by Michael Torke. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javelin_(Torke) The Light Fantastic by Terry Pratchett SongPop - Challenge me at ne.ribbon !

3: Xcode Plugins

Laura Dickey — 2015-05-11T10:28:19-04:00

Episode 3 is all about Xcode Plugins

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Just a note: New version of BabyProof released recently!

Xcode plugins live here:
~/Library/Application Support/Developer/Shared/Xcode/Plug-ins

Plugins I mention on the podcast:

Xvim - gives you the VIM editor in Xcode text windows (not just code editing windows, but anywhere you’d edit text, such as in build phases)
https://github.com/XVimProject/XVim

ColorSense - takes any calls to UIColor and lets you bring up a color picker to change it. Also shows a preview of the color when you are near the color.
https://github.com/omz/ColorSense-for-Xcode

ClangFormat - clean up your code according to various coding styles
https://github.com/travisjeffery/ClangFormat-Xcode

VVDocumenter-Xcode - easy to add HeaderDoc style comments
https://github.com/onevcat/VVDocumenter-Xcode

Code completion for image names
https://github.com/ksuther/KSImageNamed-Xcode

QuickLocalization - convert a string literal into a call to NSLocalizedString
https://github.com/nanaimostudio/Xcode-Quick-Localization

Find more packages with Alcatraz
http://alcatraz.io

Nice description of a few more plugins from Mattt Thompson
http://nshipster.com/xcode-plugins/

In a hurry? Make your installed plugins work a new version of XCode without reinstalling (YMMV)

$ defaults read /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Info DVTPlugInCompatibilityUUID

Then, take the value returned and edit the Info.plist of your plugin to add that UUID to the list of compatible UUIDs.

Pop Culture Links
Games: SongPop and Rock On
Books: On to the second book of Terry Pratchett, The Light Fantastic. Also, really enjoy the Bess Crawford series by Charles Todd - just finished An Unmarked Grave. If you like strong women detectives set in period WWI England/France.
Music: Dvorak Piano Quintet No. 2, Op. 81, first movement

2: CocoaPods and 3rd Party code

Laura Dickey — 2015-04-15T08:04:14-04:00

Episode 2 is all about my adventures with CocoaPods, and a little bit about 3rd party code in general.

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All About CocoaPods
cocoapods.org

Why I now check in my CocoaPods:
http://devchat.tv/iphreaks/097-ips-deconstructing-your-codebase-with-michele-titolo

Crazy big use of CocoaPods @ Artsy
Learned about how they worked from objc.io
http://www.objc.io/issue-22/artsy.html

Here’s their podfile on github:
https://github.com/artsy/eigen/blob/master/Podfile

Another great way to learn about new frameworks/modules/etc.
http://maniacdev.com/
Can sign up for daily email updates on the left side of the site.

Pop Culture Links
The Bone Season and the The Mime Order by Samantha Shannon - great, atmospheric series set in an alternate London with clairvoyants.
Ok Go - Latest Album, or watch their amazing videos on YouTube
GarageBand [Mac|iPhone] - not really a game, but I’ve been having so much fun making short electronic beats, that it feels like a game to me!

1: Debugging with CocoaLumberjack

Laura Dickey — 2015-04-08T22:47:44-04:00

For a while now, I have wanted to start my own podcast, focusing on technical software development topics around iOS and Mac programming. That day is now here. I am posting the first episode of “Cavewoman Debugging”.

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Show notes:

Episode 1 - Debugging printfs and CocoaLumberjack

CocoaLumberjack
https://github.com/CocoaLumberjack/CocoaLumberjack

Useful C Preprocessor defines for debugging
https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/qa/qa1669/_index.html

My picks for the Week
Book - The Color of Magic (Discworld) by Terry Pratchett
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0062225677/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_Kezjvb0EGZHP8
Music - “The Worry List” by Blue October
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/the-worry-list/id451265222?i=451265508
Games - 7 Little Words by Blue Ox Technologies
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/7-little-words/id431434152?mt=8

Comments, questions, ideas for future topics? Email cavewoman@littlepotatosoftware.com