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Blog Archive

2016

 Apr 25 Updating an Objective-C library for Swift
   
posted in Swift, Objective-C, iOS, idiomatic,
 
  Apr 20 Avoiding Swift's [Any] by using functional patterns
   
posted in Swift, iOS, Array, Any, functional, Haskell, enum, sum types, flatten,
 
  Apr 19 Unexpected behaviour with Swift's [Any]
   
posted in Swift, iOS, Array, Any,
 
  Mar 7 Type erasure with AnyError
   
posted in Swift, iOS, Type Erasure,
 
  Mar 7 NADocumentPicker - Swift document picker UI
   
posted in Swift, iOS, Cocoapods, UIDocumentMenuDelegate, UIDocumentPickerDelegate, iCloud,
 
  Mar 4 NACommonUtils - Swift utilities on GitHub
   
posted in Swift, iOS, Apps, App store,
 
  Feb 19 iDiff View available on the app store
   
posted in Swift, iOS, Apps, App store,
 
  Feb 10 Profit from Futures
   
posted in Futures, Promises, async,
 
  Feb 2 Superpowers / obfuscation with map & flatMap
   
posted in Swift, iOS, Future, map, flatMap, functional-composition,
 
  Jan 28 Zip3
   
posted in iOS, Swift, functional-composition, gist,
 
  Jan 22 iPhone .PortraitUpsideDown
   
posted in iOS, Swift, iPhone, PortraitUpsideDown, gist,
 
  Jan 20 Searching for a Swift Future library
   
posted in Swift, iOS, Futures, Promises, async,
 
  Jan 13 Popovers on the iPhone
   
posted in iOS, Swift, iPhone, popover, gist,
 
  Jan 5 Status bar colour matching
   
posted in iOS, Swift, gist,
 

2015

 Dec 4 Swift libraries
   
posted in Swift, iOS,
 
  Nov 27 Productivity in Swift vs Objective-C
   
posted in Swift, iOS, Objective-C, static,
 
  Nov 22 Configuring Jekyll
   
posted in Jekyll, blog,
 
  Nov 10 Changing blogging platform
   
posted in Pier, Jekyll, blog, life-hacking,
 
  Jun 12 SVN to Git
   
posted in Git, GitHub, SVN,
 
  Mar 2 Unix shell configuration
   
posted in DevOps, Unix, Linux,
 

2013

 Apr 12 Shake to debug
   
posted in iOS, Objective-C, async, gist,
 

2011

 Jul 1 Step 4: File upload as a pluggable component
   
posted in Nginx, file, upload,
 
  Jul 1 Step 3: Using Nginx upload progress module
   
posted in Nginx, file, upload,
 
  Jul 1 Step 2: Hidden iframe for ajax-like file upload
   
posted in Nginx, upload,
 
  Jul 1 Step 1: Nginx upload module
   
posted in Nginx, upload, Seaside,
 
  Jul 1 File upload using Nginx and Seaside
   
posted in Nginx, upload, progress,
 
  Jul 1 Compiling Nginx to add extra modules
   
posted in DevOps, Nginx, devops,
 
  Jun 13 Understanding Pier's PRContext
   
posted in Pier, Smalltalk, Seaside,
 
  Jun 10 Setting the order cron jobs execute
   
posted in cron, DevOps,
 
  Jun 5 Using google as your MTA from Seaside
   
posted in DevOps, MTA, Seaside,
 
  Jun 3 Finding whats eating my disk space
   
posted in DevOps,
 
  May 15 Continuous Integration With Jenkins for Smalltalk
   
posted in DevOps, CI, Smalltalk,
 
  May 12 Installing Ubuntu 10.04.1 on VMWare
   
posted in DevOps,
 
  May 3 Could the Mac App Store ease a transition from Intel to ARM?
   
posted in punditry, Apple, Mac, OSX, ARM, Intel, ISA, SoC,
 
  Apr 26 Running server specific conditional code
   
posted in DevOps, Seaside, Gemstone,
 
  Apr 9 Using Monit to keep your site up
   
posted in DevOps,
 
  Apr 3 Automating Gemstone backups
   
posted in Gemstone, Seaside,
 
  Apr 1 Serving Seaside requests without the application name in the URL
   
posted in DevOps, Nginx, Seaside,
 
  Mar 31 Simplifying SSH command lines
   
posted in DevOps,
 
  Mar 28 Command-line image tips
   
posted in devops,
 
  Mar 19 Thinking in Gemstone
   
posted in Gemstone,
 
  Mar 17 Setting default ec2 region
   
posted in EC2, DevOps,
 
  Mar 15 Changing the default Gemstone timezone
   
posted in Gemstone, DevOps, Seaside,
 
  Mar 10 Wireshark on OSX
   
posted in DevOps, OSX,
 
  Mar 9 reloadApplications
   
posted in Seaside,
 
  Mar 8 Administrating Gemstone with topaz
   
posted in Gemstone, DevOps, devops,
 
  Mar 8 Understanding Nginx location matching and redirects
   
posted in Nginx, DevOps,
 
  Mar 6 Intel vs ARM the battle commences
   
posted in punditry, ARM, Intel,
 
  Jan 2 OSX and remote X11
   
posted in X11, Mac, OSX, GemTools, Seaside, Gemstone, Remote Cloud,
 
  Jan 2 Create a reusable Amazon machine instance
   
posted in EC2, Cloud,
 
  Jan 2 Screencast: Create a Seaside/Gemstone EC2 instance
   
posted in Gemstone, EC2, screencast,
 
  Jan 2 Deploy your Seaside app in 10 mins for free using Amazon EC2
   
posted in Gemstone, DevOps, EC2,
 
  Jan 2 Installing Gemstone on an Amazon EC2 Linux instance
   
posted in Gemstone, DevOps, EC2,