John Fisher on Atomic Spin

CodeRunner: A Generalist’s Swiss Army Knife

While all of its features, taken separately, are available for free, CodeRunner makes it painless to sit down, choose your language, and just start coding.

Ember.js

Improving Ember-CLI Testing with Sinon.js

How to improve your Ember-CLI app's tests with Sinon.js for both QUnit and Mocha frameworks.

Ember.js

Organizing an Ember.js App with the Awesome {{component}} Helper

The dynamic {{component}} helper in Ember.js 1.11 can help you organize a single page web app by dynamically rendering components based on bound properties.

Personal Optimization

Super Cheap Data Backups with Amazon Glacier Storage

How to download all your Google data and back it up extremely cheaply with Amazon Glacier Storage.

Swift

iOS SpriteKit Physics Tutorial in Swift

In this post I'll cover some major features of SpriteKit's sprite rendering and physics engine by implementing a small iOS game.

Web Apps

Validating & Formatting Credit Cards in AngularJS

Understanding the algorithms behind credit card validation, plus how to implement them for a web front-end using AngularJS.

Developer Tools

Interacting with Git: Cryptic RPC Errors, HTTPS, and SSH

Solving the annoying "RPC failed; result=22, HTTP code = 411" error. This post also discusses using the HTTPS vs SSH protocols with Git.

iOS / OS X

Easy Asynchronous Operations in iOS with ReactiveCocoa

How to easily chain asynchronous operations in iOS using ReactiveCocoa.

iOS / OS X

6 Ways Swift Improves On Objective-C

Swift fixes a lot of the things that bother me about Objective-C. This post discusses 6 Swift features that will make iOS development more efficient.

iOS / OS X

Interpolating Points in iOS with UIBezierPath

Two simple and commonly-used methods for interpolating points in iOS with cubic Bezier curves.

Developer Tools

Xcode Efficiency Tips: Keyboard Shortcuts

Xcode shortcuts for getting around workspace windows, navigating in the editor, building, running, testing, and debugging.

iOS / OS X

Using Multiple Storyboards in iOS Development

How can several developers best work on an app in parallel, using the Interface Builder with storyboards? With an RBStoryboardLink view controller.

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