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I’ve been doing Objective-C for almost 5 years (woo!), so at this point I think I have a better understanding than most of Apple’s motivations and intentions, with relation to building the language. That said, recently I’ve been loving working with Go, and there’s a few reasons for that. Not traditionally object-oriented With the rise […]
It’s short notice, but I’m giving a talk Stony Brook University tonight about How Startups Fail. So if you find yourself in the middle of Suffolk County, come watch! Joe Fabisevich is an indie developer creating software at Red Panda Club Inc. while writing about design, development, and building a company. Formerly an iOS developer […]
All day every day. if err != nil { } if err != nil { } if err != nil { } if err != nil { } if err != nil { } Joe Fabisevich is an indie developer creating software at Red Panda Club Inc. while writing about design, development, and building a […]
There’s one company I’ve got my eye on in this new year. I don’t necessarily expect them to succeed or fail, but do think that this will be a pivotal year in their history. 2014 is shaping up to be a make or break year for Redmond’s finest. The tent poles of the company being […]
The Good 1. You can’t just get funding for any old idea. Being the financial capital world means that people are wary of giving money to stupid ideas. Ok, ok, less wary, but it still happens. But New York is very grounded with respect to technology, and that gives me [some] confidence in the ideas […]
Last year I spent a lot of time gathering pieces, and in 2014 I’d like to put them together. More server-side programming I’ve been doing iOS now for almost 5 years now. I always want to work on the whole stack, but I never have found myself drawn to a language that’s useful on the […]
Eat as much as you can tonight so you can make your New Years resolution to lose weight easier! Joe Fabisevich is an indie developer creating software at Red Panda Club Inc. while writing about design, development, and building a company. Formerly an iOS developer working on societal issues @Twitter. These days I don’t tweet, […]
As I switched over from Gmail to Fastmail.fm, I was looking for a mail client to replace my beloved Mailbox on iOS. I would have loved to continued using it, but it only supports Gmail, and not regular IMAP, so I needed a new client. Since I now have come to rely on the snooze […]
If you’re writing an iOS app and you need to know the user’s current location, the answer is straightforward: use Core Location. That fires up device GPS (when available). Apple’s A-GPS combines this with things like local Wifi networks and IP addresses to work out the device’s location. All of this, of course, assuming that […]
Over at the Big Nerd Ranch blog, my friend Mark Dalrymple continues his “Inside the Bracket” series with an article on practical uses of Objective-C’s run time introspection. Last time you saw the parts of the Objective-C runtime API that let you query a bunch of the metadata the compiler keeps around once it’s done […]