Justin DeWind on Atomic Spin

Breaking Your Budget into Categories

A budget can be made up of many different components—some of which have nothing to do with actively creating features and are instead for upfront processes.

Objective-C

Replacing the Objective-C “Delegate Pattern” with ReactiveCocoa

Objective-C's delegate pattern isn't flexible and spreads out one particular concern into multiple areas. Here's a way to replace it using ReactiveCocoa.

Ruby Motion

Breaking Cyclical References in RubyMotion with Proc#weak

RubyMotion team has addressed the cyclical reference issue with Proc#weak!, which ensures that a weak reference of self is kept by the lambda.

Ruby Motion

Working around RubyMotion’s Memory Management Limitations

The memory semantics in Objective-C are not available in RubyMotion, so extra care needs to be taken when dealing with lambdas and cyclical references.

Objective-C

ReactiveCocoa & Complex User Interfaces

I had an opportunity to truly leverage the power of ReactiveCocoa when I found myself facing a complex user interface that took a multitude of user inputs.

Ruby Motion

ReactiveCocoa: The Future of Cocoa Programming

ReactiveCocoa will improve the structure and reduce the complexity of your code. Most importantly, it removes the need for keeping track of state.

Project & Team Management

The Three Layers of Management

Completing a product on time and on budget doesn't guarantee its success. Because we give a shit about the stuff we create, we've expanded our responsibilities to include other asp

Web Apps

System Testing a Java Web Service in Jetty

There weren't any tools to create and run automated Java system tests, so we created one. It's configurable, instrumented, and available on GitHub.

Web Apps

Guice AOP and the Java Persistence API

Guice's built-in support for Aspect-oriented programming can eliminate the need to repeatedly address the concerns of the database and Java Persistence API.

Functional Programming

What I Learned on the Way to Clojure

My top three Clojure lessons: sequester mutable state; think functionally and be idiomatic; and practice, practice, practice.

iOS / OS X

iOS Mirroring and Programmatic Airplay Selection

iOS Mirroring and Programmatic airplay selection can be done using private APIs in the MediaPlayer.framework.

Web Apps

Node.js and Asynchronous Programming with Promises

Using promises in Node.js development can help you avoid callback hell when you inevitably have to deal with I/O bound operations.

Justin DeWind

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