I’ve recently integrated Apple Pay for an iOS app. Though I have heard it is very easy to integrate and lot of tutorials available, I could not find overall requirements/activities involved in integrating Apple Pay.

Disclaimer: Yes, I know about the typo “briding” in screenshots, but I’m lazy to redo all, so please ignore and read the article in peace :-)

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.

I was cleaning up my mac before handing it to systems on my last job. I had a couple of days just for the Knowledge Transfer of projects and nothing else. I have always run two or three passive self policing apps like Rescuetime and Timing etc.,

If you did not have enough time to go through the 50G contents from WWDC'13, I highly recommend you to watch the session 228, aptly named “Hidden Gems in Cocoa and Cocoa Touch”.

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.

If you want to quickly disable internet/networking to test offline features. Doing it frequently with System preferences GUI is quite a slow workflow.

Project planning is always a difficult task for me. I could do anything to skip the project planning because for following reasons:

Remember my old post about the TOI - Epub project? Yesterday, I published the source on github. If anyone still interested, go ahead and take a look at the source. Kindly go through the Dev-Notes.txt, as it has all the urls and image path used to inspect their mpaper hiearchy.

Here are the collection of snippets to do CRUD operation with ZKSforce (Force.com toolkit for iOS).

Remember this is a SOAP based API, there is a new alternative library available from salesforce called MobileSDK for iOS.