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Category Archives: software-engineering
Why your security UI sucks
The principle recurring problem in user experience is creating a user interface that supports the user’s mental model of how an app works, while simultaneously enabling the actions that are actually supported by the implementation’s model of the problem domain. … Continue reading
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Want to hire iamleeg?
Well, that was fun. For nearly a year I’ve been running Fuzzy Aliens, a consultancy for app developers to help get security and privacy requirements correct, reducing the burden on the users. This came after a year of doing the … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Policy, Responsibility, software-engineering
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TDD/unit testing video training for iOS developers
I recently recorded a series of videos on unit testing and test-driven development for iOS developers with Scotty of iDeveloper.tv. The videos and associated source code is now available for purchase and download.
Posted in code-level, iDeveloper.TV, iPad, iPhone, software-engineering, Talk, TDD, tool-support
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On what Marcus said
This post is a response to Why so serious? over at Cocoa is my Girlfriend. Read that. Welcome back. OK, so firstly let’s talk about that damned carousel. Kudos to the developer who wrote a nice smoothly scrolling layer-backed image … Continue reading
Posted in code-level, iDeveloper.TV, iPad, software-engineering
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On adopting testing, and CocoaDojos
In episode 18 of iDeveloper.TV Live I was discussing test-driven development with Scotty and John. I suggested that a great way to get started with TDD was to start adopting it in baby steps in your code. Got a bug … Continue reading
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On platform-specific strategies
I’m writing some library code at the moment that needs to work on both Mac OS X and iOS. The APIs I need to use on each platform are different, so I need different code on each platform. I also … Continue reading
Posted in code-level, iPad, iPhone, Mac, software-engineering
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On internal quality
I was asked by attendees at my VTM talk on test-driven development a small collection of questions on a similar theme, which I’ll summarise here. How do I do TDD when my boss doesn’t want me to? What do I … Continue reading
Posted in Business, code-level, Responsibility, software-engineering, Talk, TDD, VTM
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On my own competency
There was a question on programmers.stackexchange.com about whether to put your Stack Overflow reputation in your CV. I don’t, and answered as much: there’s no point in writing for its own sake, unless you want to be a writer. If … Continue reading
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On NSInvocation
I was going to get down to doing some writing, but then I got some new kit I needed to set up, so that isn’t going to happen. Besides which, I was talking to one developer about NSInvocation and writing … Continue reading
Posted in Foundation, iPad, iPhone, Mac, software-engineering
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On comment docs
Something I’m looking at right now is generation of (in my case, HTML) API documentation from some simple markup format. The usual way to do this is by writing documentation markup inline in the source code, using specially formatted comments … Continue reading
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