Happy New Year - 2019
It is always easy to find fault than fixing. So this isn’t very hard to start this year blogging write a rant. I wish I’d gone through this earlier; if so, atleast I could have asked Flickr to update minimal fixes. Anyway, I would like to record it so we don’t repeat the same mistakes.
This is something I’ve started in Jan ‘15. This is to practice a habit of keeping a log of stuff I do which took me a lot of time to figure out myself (may be I’m not efficient?).
Image slicing option in xcode asset catalog allows you to define resiziable area an image so it can be repeated to fit the object’s height & width.
TDD (Test Driven Development) was introduced to me around 2006 with PHPUnit. As a naive, I couldn’t see the benefits, eg., I saw the pattern of code has been updated very often (growing organically) and frequent failing test. I was like, Why should I write unit test to test my own code? with the same data I used for manual testing? As they say I was seeing the forest for the trees. I failed to realize the failing test is actually the benefit of practicing TDD.
Last Thursday one of my iPad app’s provisioning file has expired. Client brought it to us at the very late moment, the iPad app was distributed internally as an enterprise app. App users are for HVAC technicians, app integrates with their organization’s CRM (Salesforce) so distributing it with App store doesn’t make any sense.
For the first time in history, I am publishing resolution list online, let see if this helps.
Other than this there are quite a lot like perfect pitch training, learn a music instrument, painting etc., I carry from previous years.
I recently started using Git as my revision control tool. Impressed by the use of branching and merging, I create and merge a lot of branches. Our company use SVN and other peers were not aware/interested in Git. So I took the initiative to use svn-git. After months of progress I left with so many branches for features, svn, QA-release and quick-fix for released builds.
Until recently I was not aware of the shortcut _Ctrl + Cmd + C _
It captures the complete content of the iPad simulator to the clipboard, You can save it to a file by File -> New from Clipboard with preview.app
I was planning to write a post similar to this for very long time. My intension is to help beginners to know the jargons and best practices. Please add your comments and I will update.