For years, the most common way to provide test data for automated tests has been fixtures – hard-coded values, usually stored in text files. For example, here’s some YAML-formatted data for a city model object: – model: city fields: id: 1 name: Los...
A few weeks ago I got a germ of an idea in my head for a personal web-application that required recording and playing video, something with which I have had very little experience. I have seen how effortless is it to play video with HTML5 so I thought this would be...
Greg Parker recently tweeted a link to fantastic site he created, An Illustrated History of objc_msgSend, that provides a trip through history of one of the likely most often called, but unheard of functions in iOS or OS X, objc_msgSend. The function dates back to...
I’m experimenting with Go recently for some side projects I’m working on, and am really enjoying working with it so far. It has a great standard library, is fast, is built to support great tools, and has a great community. I first learned about it through...
Large hard drives and spare CPU cycles have made running multiple virtual machines off your MacBook feasible, and VirtualBox + Linux have made it free. But actually setting up a VM for each development project always seemed like a bit too much trouble – until I met...
