My previous post contained my first variation for solving Problem 1 of Project Euler. A basic loop was intentionally used to illustrate a brute force method of determining the answer. The solution is easy to understand and the code is very simple. For Variation 2, I decided to simply refactor Variation 1 so that it [...]
Problem 1 on Project Euler was posted on October 5th, 2001 (just days before my birthday). I’m solving the problem nearly 10 years later! And since it’s one of the early ones, it’s quite simple. The problem description is as follows: If we list all the natural numbers below 10 that are multiples of 3 [...]
After reflecting on yesterday’s post on the importance of practice for a little while, I realized that I wanted to start doing some katas. A friend of mine mentioned Project Euler, which I had never seen before. Apparently over 150,000 registered users exist on Project Euler, which tells me there are a LOT of coders [...]
Software developers who wish to excel should be craftsmen. This idea of craftsmanship in software development is not entirely a new concept, but it appears to be making a run around the software blogs. In a succinct but likely overly simplified description, craftsmanship is simply taking pride in your work and striving to be the [...]
Excuse the exceptionally long title of the article, but I just couldn’t figure out how to communicate this very specific example in any other way. In most cases, you want to develop your application once, but have it supported on all of the devices and firmware versions that Apple still supports. You don’t want to [...]
Matt Gallagher over at Cocoa with Love just wrote: Deployment for a Cocoa Mac application normally involves a few common steps: committing code into a repository, updating version numbers and packaging the application as a DMG disk image. In this post, I’ll show you a combination bash/perl/Applescript to handle all these tasks in a single [...]
If you’re a developer, you have no doubt spent time thinking about whether you will publish mobile apps on the Apple App Store or the Google Android Market, and where you will spend a majority of your time. As an indy developer, you know that it’s important to maximize your profits in order to stay [...]
NoSQL databases are becoming immensely popular. They’re the in thing right now. That alone isn’t a good reason to choose to use a piece of technology, but there are a lot of other advantages to using NoSQL in attribute rich data applications. There are already a ton of resources discussing why you should choose NoSQL [...]
I was going through some code in an older Rails application’s code base of mine in order to migrate it from 2.1.x to 2.3.9 and finally to 3.0.0. My primary task at hand was to migrate the code to Rails 3.0.0, so I avoided getting too sidetracked into modifying code that didn’t need it specifically [...]
Several times a week, I find that I need to automate a task to save me considerable amounts of time. The following is an example of this need. I wanted to share the thinking behind the task and the code with you. Improvements and suggestions are welcome. Submit them as comments to this article. This [...]
