Chris Boyd
From the monthly archives: October 2011
The Pew Research Center’s Journalism.org released an interesting survey today that centers around news consumption on tablet devices. Amongst the numerous findings, they report that 11% of US adults now own a tablet-based device. That’s pretty impressive for a device that didn’t even exist 2 years ago.
Today we’re going to delve into using the awesome NSOperationQueue method. You’re going to want to sit down for this, because it’s going to blow your mind. You can follow along with the demo project on Github, or build your own step by step.
Being from Louisiana, I have a certain affinity for hip hop and rap. It’s a part of our culture, like Cajun food or Mardi Gras. Even if there’s a track I’m not necessarily familiar with or wouldn’t purchase myself, I can appreciate the modern day poetry and lyrical craftsmanship that goes into it. Rhyming is hard, rhyming fast is even harder. Rhyming well, even harder. Anyone that can do that and keep a crowd entertained at the same time gets my vote.
I first became an Apple fanboy at the age of 12 when I saw a Nirvana b-sides album in a promotional photo for a Macintosh in the Apple catalog. Microsoft wasn’t cool enough to know about good music, and had never done anything like that at the time. From that moment on I was a huge fan of this computer company that was also hip, understood youth, and seemed to be so much further ahead of everyone else in the nerdy realm of personal computing.
I went to the first annual Jenkins User Conference yesterday, and all the Jenkins talk inspired me to do a step-by-step guide as a follow-up to my original Jenkins post, which many of you requested. If you’re an iOS developer working with a team of people, especially a team of beta testers, you’re going to want to get into this. Quickly.
