CodeWithCoffee

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Programming Thomas, iOS and Android developer

http://programmingthomas.com

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Comment · 10 years ago

You can download Xamarin Studio for OS X or Visual Studio with Xamarin here https://www.xamarin.com/download

Comment · 10 years ago

A quick check of the stories on the front page suggests this is the case; editorial content and news covering yesterday's events is all /19 (today) whereas today's news and online content (for tomorrow's paper) is all /20 (tomorrow).

Comment · 11 years ago

> Only numeric variables are supported (no strings, no matrices)

Basic.hpp defines LET as:

    #define LET double [1]

Perhaps this would allow for a broader range of types, seen as C++11 is being used:

    #define LET auto

[1]: https://github.com/rollbear/basicpp/blob/master/basic.hpp#L8...

Comment · 11 years ago

Link to the documentary for those in the UK: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0074rxx/horizon-199519...

Android M Developer Preview and Tools android-developers.blogspot.com

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Comment · 11 years ago

App Store link, for anyone that's interested: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/lisping/id512138518?mt=8

Comment · 11 years ago

Their about page lists the licenses for several native iOS libraries (AFNetworking, etc) which suggests it is mostly native.

Comment · 12 years ago

Over the years it seems there have been a fair few 'Hacker News for X' (see https://hn.algolia.com/#!/story/forever/prefix/0/hacker%20ne...). Presumably each time people implement the whole site from scratch (users, commenting, ranking, etc). Have there ever been any open-source attempts at creating a generic Hacker News style site that people could self host for specific topics? The only thing that I can think of is self-hosting your own copy of reddit.

Comment · 12 years ago

OP: There's a typo in the title for ReadKit:

> ReadKit RRS reader

(should read RSS).

Comment · 12 years ago

What's more, you can't get the current properties of the interface objects (e.g. the position on screen, or text content). You can only write to them: https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/ios/documenta....

Comment · 12 years ago

> Also you can use smart pointers to do automatic garbage collection.

Not quite. Smart pointers do automatic reference counting, which doesn't use a garbage collector.

Comment · 12 years ago

For iOS developers that want to use the new PDF image catalogs in Xcode 6 (which automatically generate the @1x, @2x and @3x images so you don't have to add them individually) I have forked the repository and added them at https://github.com/programmingthomas/material-design-icons.

Comment · 12 years ago

Steve Jobs blogged on Apple's main site https://www.apple.com/hotnews/, including the famous Thoughts on Flash article https://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/.

Comment · 12 years ago

Objective-C uses Automatic Reference Counting (Garbage Collection has been deprecated - and ARC works a lot better than the GC implementation), and as Swift had to uses Objective-C's memory model it must also use ARC.

Comment · 12 years ago

Furthermore, Apple did bring up a slide during the Platform State of the Uniform (slide 56 in the PDF) saying source compatibility wouldn't be guaranteed (but that converters would be provided) because the language will evolve. I can't imagine that they'll introduce dramatic changes that will break code generated by PaintCode, but it would be a pain if you have to completely regenerate your all rendering code with each update to Xcode/Swift.