Jordan Schaenzle on Atomic Spin

iOS / OS X

Detecting Drag-Into Touch Events in UIViews

I had several UIViews arranged on a screen and wanted to detect when the user drags a finger into one of the views. Seems straightforward, right?

Workplace

Improving on the Open Office Environment with Slack

At first, we used Slack channels primarily for team-based discussion. But then people started making channels devoted to a particular technology or topic.

iOS / OS X

NSDateFormatter – Proceed with Caution!

My discovery: to avoid bugs, you want to use lowercase "y" for the year component of your date format string in NSDateFormatter.

iOS / OS X

Intro to Modals in iOS

How to get started with iOS modal view implementation, including a list of tools.

iOS / OS X

Transitioning to ReactiveCocoa 4

Differences between ReactiveCocoa 2 to ReactiveCocoa 4 – what you need to know.

Objective-C, Swift

Working with Objective-C and Swift on the Same Project

Converting classes from Swift to Objective-C, and Objective-C to Swift.

iOS / OS X

Continuous Validation for Mobile User Interfaces in iOS

We can automate testing so that our iOS user interface looks the way we expect by taking a screenshot of every view and composing them into a document.

Project & Team Management

Tips for Joining an Existing Software Team

Tips to help you ease the burden of joining a software team that's already elbows-deep in their project.

Objective-C

Bi-directional Data Bindings in ReactiveCocoa with RACChannel

Using RACChannel and RACChannelTerminal to execute bi-directional data binding in ReactiveCocoa for Objective-C.

iOS / OS X

Sunrise and Sunset in iOS using CoreLocation

Combining iOS's CoreLocation framework and the EDSunriseSet cocoa-pod to obtain local sunrise and sunset times.

Developer Tools

Version-Controlled Hardware Design with EAGLE

Two different setups for implementing a hardware design version control system using CadSoft EAGLE.

Personal Optimization

Keeping a Non-Backlog To-Do List with Todoist

Todoist is for what I call minor-miscellaneous items like: “Propose a new time for Greg’s meeting request” or “Ship circuit board to Frank."

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