computer engineer's stream of consciousness
Many app nowadays display badges over either a tab bar icon or navigation bar button but unfortunately , though quite common, this is not a feature provided by UIKit. Since I needed such feature for a small project I’ve been … Read More »
The reason I have been slacking in blog posting recently is because I received a Raspberry Pi 2 for Christmas and this triggered something within me. I have been so absorbed by a project based on it that I didn’t find … Read More »
In October I attended to Pragma Conf 2015 and there was a talk about “library-oriented” programming that really struck me. The talk was about trying to generalise as much as possible the code and collect it into libraries to be … Read More »
When, with the advent of iOS 7, NSURLSession was introduced to take the place of NSURLConnection the developer community welcomed joyfully the change… unfortunately despite being a big step forward in terms of Networking API NSURLSession is lacking something its ancestor … Read More »
I’ve read many articles recently that were trying to shed light over the use of map and flatMap in Swift… some tried to explain it through plain examples whereas other used a more academical approach introducing the concepts of Functors … Read More »
Recently I’ve started developing an app for OS X to automatically download videos’ subtitles (mostly because that app I was using before stopped being free and started asking for 19,99$ to keep using it) and thus had to deal with … Read More »