Author Archives: zaph

An answer from StackOverflow by a “Senior iOS Developer”: I just ended up taking two keypairs. One of them I used to encrypt the other one. Then I broke up the encrypted form into many shards and stashed them all … Continue reading →

“I honestly didn't think you could even USE emoji in variable names. Or that there were so many different crying ones.”

Headphones are the new office.

With the new literals in Xcode 4.4 (and presumably a version for iOS) returning multiple objects from a method becomes almost as easy as in Python. The last example below returns a tuple with very little ceremony in a manner … Continue reading →

A month ago my wife was bitten by a stray cat. A series or Rabies shots was found necessary so we went the hospital for treatment. The initial treatment was a series of shots followed by subsequents shots at 3, … Continue reading →

Today I wanted to edit a file on my server. I tend to use Fetch so I fired it up, navigated to my WordPress directory, selected a .php file and clicked on the edit icon. Now I usually use BBEdit … Continue reading →

The impetus behind this sort timing test is from the Coursers “algo” course and in particular the Quicksort section. One comment was that sorting was so fast that the cost need not even be considered. It seem that on an … Continue reading →

Notice the size of the “Play/Pause” button relative the the “Previous” button (outlined in red). From this it seems obvious that the more important of the two is the “Previous” button. Also notice the close proximity of the two buttons … Continue reading →

Sinage video (2 minutes) as great UX, excerpt from the BBC documentary The Tube This is a great example of well thought-out UX policy that is completely focused on the user with an overall benefit to the users as a … Continue reading →