Part of our job as developers is taking in a large amount of information and parsing it down to the components needed. I've always loved filtering and sorting through lists whether in excel or Salesforce or other content management systems. In my previous jobs, it was common to get a request like "We need a … Continue reading All Sorted
Data Visualization—Using USStatesColorMap
For the past week and a half, my team has been working on an app that will help kids discover the many careers available in the US. Our goal is to take public data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and translate them into a readable format for mobile. In one feature, we wanted to create a map … Continue reading Data Visualization—Using USStatesColorMap
A Git Error: Permission denied
I started borrowing a computer to run XCode and work on my iOS projects. It had been used by another person previously, but had been "wiped," meaning I am not entirely sure of the process to remove the previous user's information. I downloaded XCode, copied over my files from my personal computer, and began working on a project. After writing … Continue reading A Git Error: Permission denied
Get the Location of a Tap
At this point in my iOS studies, I've worked with Interface Builder. I have created actions based on a user tapping a label, button or table view cell. All of these capture a tap from the user and use that information to perform an action. I wanted to know how to capture the point of touch on … Continue reading Get the Location of a Tap
Happy Birthday, Alan Turing
We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done. —Alan Turing
Initializers
During my first two weeks of learning Objective-C, my use of initializers was limited to a few staple instances. In NSMutableArrays: [[NSMutableArray alloc]init] In NSDictionaries: [[NSDictionary alloc]init] In the above cases, the container object, either a dictionary or array, is initialized and objects are added later as needed with another method. In some cases, we have the objects already … Continue reading Initializers