A Cocoa Color Mystery
Handling color spaces in Cocoa and Quartz just takes a little familiarity to be done properly.
Efficient Swift
Long ago I gave some off the cuff, first impressions about Swift. Since then there have been several upgrades to the language, but I have only recently found myself trying it out. Specifically, I decided I had the time and inclination to implement Conway’s Game of Life. I wanted to try Swift on as a language, see how hard it makes me work to get to the bytes, and see how efficient I could make my code. Life’s matrix of cells provides a good substitute for the kind of byte by byte programming I often need to do and gave easy measurement opportunities by timing the updates of the life matrix, AKA ticks. What did I learn?
Swift Journal: Day One
Learning a language is sometimes confusing I decided to jump right into Swift without doing any research into the writing done over the past month so that my opinions were not colored. My background is in the C/C++ and, lately, Objective-C of which I’ve become...
Beef up your text editor on Mac OS X
This is a gentle reminder that you are not forced to limit yourself to any app’s built-in features when you work on Mac OS X thanks to Services with an assist from Automator. I recently utilized Automator’s Run Shell Script action to create a needed...