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Open source typeface “Hack” brings design to source code
Sweet spot is 8px-12px, but you can tell the difference between I and 1 at 6px.<p>The days of coders being shackled to Monaco or Courier New ends now. …
This app is everything OS X Finder wants to be
Maybe it’s just me, but Finder is one of the default Mac apps I find most annoying. Even though Apple introduced tabs to the default experience a few years ago, Finder still makes it harder than it should to move files from one folder on your computer to another.<p>Commander One, a Finder alternative …
OS XBest smartphone cameras: Galaxy S7 vs. iPhone 6s vs. Nexus 6P vs. Lumia 950
Samsung vs. iPhone, Nexus vs. Lumia. It's time to find out who makes <i>the best</i> smartphone camera.Recently a new smartphone waltzed onto the scene, …
iOS 9: Staying Organized with Storyboard References
Even though storyboards have been around since iOS 5, many developers are reluctant to use them in their projects. A typical remark is that …
iOS 9: Getting Started with UIStackView
Like every iteration of iOS, iOS 9 brings forth a lot of new features. UIKit changes with every release of iOS, but one particular addition in iOS 9 …
Using the ASP.NET OAuth providers without ASP.NET Identity
IntroductionI think very few ASP.NET developers realise that the ASP.NET authentication providers and ASP.NET Identity really have nothing to with …
Swift asserts - the missing manual
<b>assertion</b> - a confident and forceful statement of fact or belief. Something declared or stated positively, often with no support or attempt at …
Adding a Fixed Header to a UIScrollView
I'm currently working on an iPad application which uses a custom calendar control to display a lot of appointments. Similar to Apple's own calendar …
Swift From Scratch: Variables and Constants
In the first article of Swift From Scratch, you learned about Xcode playgrounds and wrote your first lines of Swift. In this article, we'll start …
Storyboards Tutorial for iOS: Part 1
Storyboards, Scenes and View Controllers<p><i>Update note:</i> This tutorial has been updated for Xcode 9, iOS 11, and Swift 4 by Nicholas Sakaimbo. The …
Storyboards Tutorial for iOS: Part 2
Storyboards, Segues and Static Cells<p><i>Update note:</i> This tutorial has been updated for Xcode 9, iOS 11, and Swift 4 by Nicholas Sakaimbo. The original …
DARPA funds $11 million tool that will make coding a lot easier
DARPA is funding a new project by Rice University called PLINY, and it's neither a killer robot nor a high-tech weapon. PLINY, named after Pliny the Elder who wrote one of the earliest encyclopedias ever, will actually be a tool that can automatically complete a programmer's draft -- and yes, it …
Tech Retrospect: Amazon listens with Echo and Office mobile apps go free
When officers in "Star Trek: The Next Generation" spoke up and asked the omniscient computer for directions to a place, an answer to a question or simply for a cup of hot tea (you know what kind), our reaction was simple: Wow, I want that. Now, 20 years after the series went off the air, Amazon is …