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Peer reviews for the Solo coder

Developing software in a solo environment has its pros and cons. On the upside you have complete reign over the code base (no problems with ownership here), freedom to follow specific designs and an ability to express your creativity. On the other hand, the very nature of the activity can be your down fall; tunnel […]

Virtual Accessors in CoreData

In order to provide the best user experience it often occurs in a UI’s design that the underlying data model doesn’t quite mirror the mental model of the end user. Naturally, as a good UI designer you want to present to the end user what they expect to see and not force upon them your […]

Developer gets DZone’d, thinks it an April fools hoax.

Most mornings I make it a habit to do a quick check of Google Analytics in order to view the stats on this blog. I’m usually greeted with somewhere between 25-35 visitors a day sometimes spiking to 50 or more. So you can imagine my surprise when I saw this:

Yikes! No way. Did Google screw […]