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Author Archives: Graham
TDD and crypto in one place
Well, I suppose if I’ve written two books, it’s about time I wrote a contorted blog post that references both of the worlds. I recently wrote an encryption module for an app, and thought it’d be useful to share something … Continue reading
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Culture, heritage and apps
I said earlier on Twitter that I’m disappointed with the state of apps produced for museums and libraries. I’d better explain what I mean. Here’s what I said: Disappointed to find that many museum apps (British Library, Bodleian, Concorde etc) … Continue reading
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Test-Driven iOS Development
Here it is, after more than a year in the making, the book that they really did want you to read! Test-driven IOS Development (Developer’s Library) (affiliate link) has finally hit the stores[*]. I wrote this book for the simple … Continue reading
Posted in books, PCAS, software-engineering, TDD, TDiOSD
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On the magic of key agreement
Imagine that you want to implement AirDrop, or something like it. Two computers that have (possibly) never communicated before are going to share a file. Now you know that you want to encrypt the file in transit so that only … Continue reading
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On my newer competence
This time last year, I evaluated myself against the programmer competency matrix. So where am I one turn around the daystar later? I have to admit that this was mainly because I was jet lagged in a hotel room in … Continue reading
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An apology and an opportunity
Today’s earlier post, UX is snake-oil bullshit, was indeed an April Fool. Sorry to the people who had their “WTF blood boil”, among other reactions. I’m also sorry to the people I parodied in the post. Please feel comfortable knowing … Continue reading
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UX is snake-oil bullshit
There, I said it. I feel better already. There are people in the world who’ll tell you that the most important thing in the world is UX, that if your software isn’t UX-compliant it isn’t worth shit. Here’s why that’s … Continue reading
Posted in software-engineering, user-error
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Automate all the server Objective-C!
I decided it was time to stop writing WebObjects/GNUstepWeb code, and write some code that would make it easier to write WO/GSW code. With that in mind I replaced my previous component generator with a more robust generator. I also … Continue reading
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Adding components to a GNUstep web / WebObjects app
In WebObjects, Components take the role of a view controller in what passes for Cocoa’s version of MVC. Each is responsible for calculating the data that the view objects are bound to: you saw an example of this in the … Continue reading
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Using Objective-C on the server
My talk at NSConf was about cross-platform Objective-C. Those people who I talked to after the session will know that my goal is clear. There are plenty of people out there who have learned Objective-C to get onto the iOS … Continue reading
Posted in NSConf, software-engineering, tool-support, WebObjects
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