It only makes sense to develop apps that operate natively in the world's languages and their diverse cultures. In this post, we look at the steps to set up Xcode for app localization. Updated: December 2020
CocoaPods integrates third-party software libraries into my app's Xcode project cleanly with professionally developed code, documentation, and version management. Updated: December 2020
As a person learns their craft, their choice of tools evolve becoming highly suitable, functionally precise, and artistic masterpieces in their own right. Updated: November 2020.
There are tips and short-cuts that one learns while using an Ubuntu instance on AWS EC2 for development. Here is my growing list. Updated November 2020.
This is the sixth post of a 6-part series to setup a WordPress website on AWS. Browser communication to this web server is upgraded to https (i.e., padlock is displayed in the browser's address bar). Updated: November 2020.
This is the fifth post of a 6-part series to setup a WordPress website on AWS. Post configuration steps improve the WordPress website. Updated: November 2020.
This is the fourth post of a 6-part series to setup a WordPress website on AWS. The steps to install WordPress on the AWS instance are detailed. Updated: November 2020.
This is the third post of a 6-part series to setup a WordPress website on AWS. The steps to setup a LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) stack are described. Updated: November 2020.
This is the second post of a 6-part series to setup a WordPress website on AWS. The steps to improve security for an EC2 instance are detailed. Updated November 2020.
This is the first post of a 6-part series to setup a WordPress website on AWS. The steps to create an instance on AWS are detailed. Updated November 2020.
SF Symbols provide an elegant approach to using standard icons/glyphs in an app. In this fourth post of a new series of Swift code topics, the steps to create a custom symbol for import into Xcode are covered.
Coding for real-world apps is a humbling experience. In this third post of a new series of Swift code topics, the insanely complex rabbit hole known as date and time is explored using several Xcode playground examples.
In this first post of a new series of Swift code topics, methods map, flatMap, compactMap and filter are described using several Xcode playground examples.
Creating example apps is still a good way to learn Swift and Xcode. I have included the steps to create a code-only initial iOS 13 project using Swift 5 within Xcode 11. With Xcode 11 and iOS 13, the process is slightly different.
There are numerous Xcode tips and short-cuts that one learns during their journey along the app development path. Here is my growing list.
DARCI is a clinical data collection tool designed and built for SCRI. It measures differential pressure of air from -5 to 30 cm-H2O with a resolution of 0.05 cm-H2O at 125 samples/sec and records to an internal SD card.
As a software developer for mobile device and high-tech appliances, I'm excited about the innovative display technologies and software highlighted in this Corning Glass video on the future of glass technology.
For us, version management for all design files is performed under the Git framework with Git-Flow as the workflow model and SourceTree as the software tool. Remote repositories (i.e., origin) are located on github.
Having worked on some complicated systems with embedded software, I appreciate the list from this amazingly well-written paper on best practices in software development independent of software language.
The story of four app developers are showcased during the WWDC 2009 keynote. It is this video that inspired me to start the journey to be an iOS app developer. I must have watched this video a hundred times.
