Jon Hocking recently released a simple category on NSDate that generates relative timestamps such as "3 hours ago" or "2 days ago" from an NSDate instance. The code is available on GitHub at jonhocking/PrettyTimestamp and is available as a CocoaPod...
I took a look at GitHub’s Mantle framework for iOS and Cocoa last Fall and am using it in one of my side projects this Spring. While reading through the Mantle source I noticed some dependencies on the Specta testing and Expecta matcher framework, neither of...
Almost 15 years ago, while still working on my undergraduate degree, I took a series programming classes as part of my CS curriculum. The first day of class, the professor announced that we would not be following the standard programming practices of the time, but...
I saw Square’s PonyDebugger project on GitHub a while back, starred it, and made a mental note to try it out in my next iOS project. It’s simply fantastic — easy to setup and incredible to use. If you’re an iOS developer be sure to add this one to...
Nobody likes waiting for a web page to load. Pity, then, the Ruby on Rails developer, proud of the the development platform’s famous efficiency of code, combating the slanderous claims of a slow production environment, and then condemned to watch the browser...
