iOS / OS X • Oct 30, 2014 Exploring iOS Core Bluetooth: Read Requests Logging and packet sniffing to learn more about how Core Bluetooth's readValueForCharacteristic method behaves.
UX/Design Techniques • Oct 29, 2014 Turning a Sequence of PNGs into a Basic Animation with Flash How we created fluid, natural-looking animations in Flash using a series of PNGs.
Development Practices, DevOps & System Admin. • Oct 28, 2014 Test-Driven Infrastructure (TDI) Many of the benefits of Test-Driven Development can be applied when managing infrastructure as code by pursuing a Test-Driven Infrastructure approach.
Evolving the Industry • Oct 27, 2014 If Your Users Are Unhappy, It’s Broken "Better software" is software that makes our users' lives just a little easier. If it doesn't meet that goal, it's useless. Sometimes worse than useless.
Growing as Makers • Oct 26, 2014 Extending Your Network through Groups & Meetups Exposure to different ideas, roles, and problems can be useful for new ideas for testing products.
Developer Tools • Oct 25, 2014 Unwind Segues in iOS Storyboards An example of how to use iOS Unwind Segues, which give you a way to “unwind” the navigation stack to a particular view controller.
.NET / WPF • Oct 24, 2014 Accessing a .NET Virtual Machine Application from a Host Machine This is a guide to enabling a .NET application on a virtual machine to be accessed from the host machine.
Growing as Makers • Oct 23, 2014 “Progressive F# Tutorials” |> Reflections Reflections on the Progressive F# Tutorials event and learning in groups / with examples versus presentations.
Ruby • Oct 22, 2014 Dependency Management with Rubygems & Cocoapods Just because your dependency doesn't contain Ruby or Objective-C doesn't mean you can't use Rubygems or Cocoapods to manage shared code.
UX/Design Tools • Oct 21, 2014 6 Helpful Sketch Shortcuts Useful Sketch keyboard shortcuts: presentation mode, view all artboards, group layers, view/hide layout, move layers back/front, and color picker.
Web Apps • Oct 20, 2014 What You Should Already Know about JavaScript Scope The basics of JavaScript Scope — lexical scoping, closures, and ways to control the context through call(), apply(), and bind().
Growing as Makers • Oct 19, 2014 7 Nuggets of Inspiration from BoSC 2014 Mike Marsiglia's top 7 nuggets of inspiration from BoSC 2014.
