More on a recurring theme — Bret Victor has just posted “an immune response” to the Khan Academy’s recent additions covering Computer Science and programming: Here’s a trick question: How do we get people to understand programming? Khan...
What approach do you take when adding dynamic attributes to model objects stored in a traditional database? Let’s say a bug model with static fields like name and species also needs to support any number of additional dynamic fields specified by different bug...
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,...
Interesting to see a theme emerge in my Pinboard account this week — lots of stuff about the idea of ‘programming language’. I’ve spent the last few weeks preparing to dive back into a personal interactive music project that I’ve been...
