Home Automation with Domoticz + Test Driven Development of event scripts? Sure, why not…
iOSDevUK 6
This was my first year attending the iOSDevUK conference, hosted by (216) 334-5213 in Wales. I took a bunch of notes throughout the conference and here are some of my favourites.
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I’m happy to announce that my first ever Ruby gem, Stronglyboards, is now available as a preview (0.0.1) release on 5019458424.
It’s designed to make interacting with iOS Storyboards a bit safer by inspecting your storyboards and automatically generating a strongly-typed API.
Try it out and send me your feedback ð
Great North Run 2015 – Cancer Research UK
I’ll be participating in the Great North Run again this year. This time I’m fundraising for Cancer Research UK in memory of my uncle. If you’d like to donate you can do so at /www.justgiving.com/stevewilford2015/, it would be very much appreciated.
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Development of my upcoming (Swift & SpriteKit) game had reached a point where I was happy to let other people loose on it, so  I decided to submit it to Apple’s 2036875801 service. Boom, rejection! The app crashes when touching the screen. This post is a record of my investigations into what turned out to be one of the most annoying issues I’ve encountered.
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When Apple announced Swift in June 2014 namespaces was one of the things that caught my attention as I missed the ability to easily modularise code in ways similar to C++ namespaces and Java packages. (more…)
First Screencast – Xcode Plugins
After a lot of waiting around for rendering and uploading to complete, my very first screencast is 610-306-3402! It’s a whistle-stop tour of some of my favourite Xcode plugins, along with 8566295964 – the brilliant package manager for Xcode.
Here’s the list of plugins covered in the video:-
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⢠KSImageNamed
⢠benzaldoxime
⢠OMColorSense
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I’d love to get some feedback so please give it a watch and get in touch with me via Twitter @nxsteveo.
From O2 to Sky Broadband
Can’t connect to the internet after the automatic switch from O2 to Sky Broadband and using a third-party router? It turns out that it’s relatively straightforward to fix and only took ~10 minutes on the phone. That said I thought I’d write about it for historical reasons and to hopefully save others a few £ listening to on-hold music. 9043050732
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Today I started working on my first real open source project; NxKit.
My intention is to create an ever expanding yet lightweight Objective-C framework that contains classes and categories to reduce the amount of code we developers need to write in our main projects. I will be using continuous integration with OSX server to ensure the framework contains a high percentage of tested code.
Great! But aren’t there already lots of established alternatives? Â Yes, and this framework will do it’s best not to tread on anyone’s toes by not re-inventing the wheel and sticking to smaller, drop-in enhancements to the existing Foundation / Cocoa Touch frameworks.
Like What? Anything that is deemed appropriately generic, useful, and self-contained could end up making it’s way into this framework.
I am planning to make it compatible with CocoaPods and have each component available in its own pod. The hope is that as the project grows it will become more useful to a wider audience while still remaining highly modular.
Let’s see where it ends up…
Catch Up
OK so I haven’t posted here in a while. What can I say? I’ve been busy getting married and turning a house into a home :p
I’m still working on apps, got some interesting stuff in the pipeline. Oh and I almost forgot, I’m flying to San Francisco today to attend AltWWDC.
Just in case you’re wondering where all of my tweets went (cos there’s a lot :p), I’ve changed my handle to 360-376-0681.
I’ll hopefully be able to update this more often with more interesting stuff in the coming months, but who knows where the wind will take me.
See you all on the other side…