I’m very excited to learn that Khan Academy has been working with John Resig (creator of jQuery) to develop a new computer science curriculum heavily influenced by Bret Victor’s talk on responsive programming environments. Check out the video they made...
When I was a boy, secret codes fascinated me, but eluded my understanding. Oh, the simplest of them were easy enough to grasp, such as the Caesar cipher, where the alphabet is shifted by a set number of letters: Plain alphabet a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t...
In The Reset Button I looked at some analysis from Horace Dediu and wrote: Samsung is making most of the money in the Android ecosystem and companies like HTC are suffering significant losses. In Dediu’s analysis of HTC’s woes it looks as if they’ve struggled to match...
Eloy Durán – a Ruby, MacRuby, and Objective-C developer created CocoaPods to help manage library dependencies in Objective-C projects. It’s similar to Bundler which is used by many Ruby projects. The cocoapods tool downloads, installs, and updates Pods...
In order to store private data in an iOS Core Data database, there are several methods available for encryption, including: iOS-level data protection based on the device passcode open source projects like SQLCipher for iOS that encrypt the database file However,...
