XCode: Quick Look for UIViews

Xcode 5.0 introduced an interesting new feature: Quick Look for variables. Basically, it lets you inspect variables and their contents in a graphical way. Xcode 5.1 improves the feature even further with the addition of debugQuickLookObject. This method allows you to provide quick look content for any of your own classes. A bit like debugDescription …

Device-Agnostic

Trent Walton on the term Device-Agnostic: Like cars designed to perform in extreme heat or on icy roads, websites should be built to face the reality of the web’s inherent variability. In my mind this approach addresses the following from the beginning: Hostile browsers, Tiny screens, Slow connection speeds, and Touch inputs Long story short, …

The Shape of your Notes

The Shape of your Notes is a blogpost/project right up my alley. It starts of talking about note taking, but then quickly transforms into a journey into geodata: isolines, GDAL, PostGIS, QGIS, etc. The result is a lovely notebook, with a neat – and correct – print of Iceland’s Eyjafjallajökull on the cover. The Shape …

PHPloy – Git FTP Deployment

; This is a sample deploy.ini file. ; You can specify as many servers as you need ; and use whichever configuration way you like. [staging] user = example pass = password host = staging-example.com path = /path/to/installation port = 21 passive = true [production] user = example pass = password host = production-example.com path …