Author:
Mark Dalrymple
If you’re an iOS programmer who only programs CocoaTouch, I want to encourage you to give desktop Cocoa a try. I’ve primarily been shipping iOS software for the last two years, but I’ve also been doing a fair amount of Cocoa programming on the desktop during that time, either writing helper tools or implementing parts of the iOS app on the desktop.…
Author:
Chris Kelly
Highgroove Studios is proud to be helping Collective Idea bring Finish Weekend to Atlanta this June:
We’ve all heard of startup weekends. Many of us have participated in one. Coming up with a new idea is easy, so is getting started.…
Author:
Mark Dalrymple
Every now and then I get a question about an idiom I use for looping through a collection of literal structures. This is handy for little lookup tables, or using pre-defined data to populate another data structure.
This is all generic C stuff, so you can use it in Objective-C too.…
Author:
Patrick Van Stee
As the web continues to mature, JSON APIs (and XML if you’re into that) have become increasingly important. But if you’ve tried to use Rails to write an API recently, you know there are a handful of competing methods and gems focused on making this better.…
Author:
mike
Highgroove sent me, Jonathan, and Patrick to RailsConf 2012. I’ve been learning a lot by going to some great talks and enjoying talking to my fellow Rails developers. If you see any of us, feel free to say hello!…
Author:
Mark Dalrymple
An idiom used by some Objective-C programmers is prefixing instance variable names with underscores. You do see this with explicitly declared instance variables:
@interface BNRSoapBubble : NSObject {
float _viscosity;
NSString *_detergentBrand;
}
@end
Or via properties when you synthesize them:
// soapbubble.h @property (whatever) float viscosity; @property (whatever) NSString *detergentBrand; // soapbubble.m @synthesize viscosity = _viscosity; @synthesize detergentBrand = _detergentBrand;
These synthesizes tell the compiler that each property should be backed by an instance variable whose name is prefixed by an underscore.…
Author:
Charles Brian Quinn
Startup Weekend in Atlanta kicked off last night with over 116 participants, and 48 pitches, eventually forming into 18 teams. The concept behind Startup Weekend is to start something up — a concept, business, or idea, over the weekend. It’s centered around technology, with people dividing themselves into categories like: “business folk”, “designers”, “developers”, and other niches.…
Author:
Jon Woodroof
The Beltline Bikeshop App, Bike Spot, is LIVE and available to install on your iOS device!
If you know us, you know we love bikes here at Highgroove. Any cyclist in Atlanta has encountered the ‘parking’ headache of looking for a spot, much less a rack to lock to while getting around on two wheels.…
Author:
Andy Lindeman
Sunspot, a Ruby interface for Solr usually backed by ActiveRecord objects, recently introduced native geospatial searching capability in the master branch (currently a 2.0.0 prerelease).
While the functionality has not been released as a stable version yet, I felt that a blog post introducing the features is appropriate with the hope that folks will try it out and give feedback!…
Author:
Mark Dalrymple
One of the directions Apple is taking in Objective C that I’ve come to really like is the migration of stuff out of header files. I’m a firm believer that header files should only contain the public programming interface, along with any bookkeeping the compiler absolutely has to have And nothing else.…