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Coding Challenge: Detecting Unique Friend Circles in NxN Matrix
Friend Circle. Photo by Margarida CSilva on Unsplash Lately I've been trying to challenge myself by taking a stab at some common coding question...
Coding Challenge: Remove and Rearrange Array Elements In-Place in O(1) Memory and O(n) Time
Lately I've been trying to challenge myself by taking a stab at some common coding questions asked in software engineering job interviews. After y...
Coding Challenge: Implement a Square Root Function
(not the sqrt function) Lately I've been trying to challenge myself by taking a stab at some common coding questions asked in software engineeri...
Coding Challenge: Finding the Longest Absolute Path in an Abstracted File System Display
Lately I've been trying to challenge myself by taking a stab at some common coding questions asked in software engineering job interviews. After y...
Coding Challenge: Converting Integers to Binary String Representations in Ruby
Lately I've been trying to challenge myself by taking a stab at some common coding questions asked in software engineering job interviews. After y...
Coding Challenge: Implementing QuickSort in Ruby
Lately I've been trying to challenge myself by taking a stab at some common coding questions asked in software engineering job interviews. After y...
Coding Challenge: Implementing MergeSort in Ruby
Lately I've been trying to challenge myself by taking a stab at some common coding questions asked in software engineering job interviews. After y...
Coding Challenge: Find Missing Number in Array of 1 Through 100
Lately I've been trying to challenge myself by taking a stab at some common coding questions asked in software engineering job interviews. After y...
How to Setup an Auto-Reconnect Script for an IKEv2/IPSEC VPN Service on Your Mac
So, you've setup an IKEv2/IPSEC VPN service on your Mac, and you want a tool that will keep you connected at all times. Well you've found the right pl...
Introducing Armchair: an App Review Manager in Swift
I just released up a helpful little open-source tool called Armchair. Armchair is a simple yet powerful App Review Manager for iOS and OSX written...
Programmatically Opening the iOS Simulator Data Directory For Your App
When developing an app that downloads data and/or creates a lot of data, it is useful to inspect the simulator's file system to ensure the files are what,...
UAProgressView — Simple, Lightweight and Powerful
Unsatisfied with the current open-source progress view components, today I created my own. UAProgressView is a simple and lightweight, y...
Urban - An Xcode Theme for Xcode 3, 4 and 5
Urban is an Xcode theme that uses a soft dark background, with subtle blue, orange and yellow colors.
Auto-Increment Build Numbers for Multiple Xcode Target Apps
Recently, I launched an App called NYC Bikes. Because it quickly became pretty popular, I expanded on it and created another bike share app for Chic...
UAAppReviewManager Updated to 0.2.0
UAAppReviewManager is a simple and lightweight, yet powerful App review prompting tool for iOS and Mac App Store apps. It's Appirater all gro...
Using Xcode Asset Catalogs with Multiple Targets
A few months ago, I released an App called NYC Bikes that quickly became the most popular non-official Citi Bike app. It resonates with busy New Yorke...
Introducing UAObfuscatedString
What is UAObfuscatedString? UAObfuscatedString is a simple and lightweight category on NSString that allows you to prevent sensitive strings from appear...
How to Make Drobo iSCSI Work Again on OS X Mavericks
TLDR; Install an older version of Java, found here. Despite every registered 3rd party developer having early access to the unreleased versions, ev...
UALogger 0.3 Released
UALogger is a logging tool for iOS and Mac apps. Think of it as NSLog on steroids. It allows you to add information like the file and line number ...
How to Customize Your Dreamhost Dedicated Server While Retaining a Managed Apache2 Configuration
I use Dreamhost to host all my non-major sites. A non-major site, at least in my definition, is a site that doesn't require its own deployment stack. ...
How to Detect When an App is Coming from the Lockscreen or Homescreen on iOS 7
My Hourly News App has different behavior when becoming active from the Lockscreen (locked while active), or becoming active from anything else. The App...
Getting Pow to use RVM’s Ruby Version on Mavericks
After upgrading to OS X Mavericks 10.9 with relatively little friction, I decided to get back to work on a Rails site that needed some love. When deve...
How To Best Resize SMPageControl Indicators to Fit Bounds
I have been working on a new feature for my Hourly News iOS App that allows the addition of custom news sources to the app. While testing out what happen...
Introducing UAAppReviewManager
I just released up a helpful little open-source tool called UAAppReviewManager. UAAppReviewManager is a simple and lightweight App review promp...
App Store Rejection for Not Having In-App Purchase Restoration
My most recent App Store submission for NYC Bikes (iTunes link not active yet) was rejected for what I see as a stupid reason: Not having a "Restore" butt...
Introducing UALogger
I just finished up a helpful little open-source tool called UALogger. UALogger is a logging tool for iOS and Mac apps. Think of it as NSLog on ste...
Recommended Third Party Services/Repos for iOS Development
What third-party plugins, frameworks and projects do you use on your projects? I get asked this question a lot. With the recent iOS open-source...
My Favorite Macros for Objective-C Development in Xcode
Some developers say that macros should be avoided, but I find them very useful to add to my Xcode projects. By simply importing a single file -- UAMacro...
Today is my 2^5 Birthday
Like any good geek, I would be remiss if I did not point out that today is my 2^5 birthday. For all non-geeks out there, let me explain…
How to Setup a Rails-like Asset Pipeline With Octopress
A few weeks ago I decided to use Octopress for my new blog engine when Posterous shut its doors, and I love it thus far. There are a few things I miss f...
How To Map Plex Media Server to Your Home Domain
Being the Über Geek that I am, reaching my home server from anywhere in the world is trivial. I have all the appropriate port-forwarding in place for ss...
A Chrome Extension to Easily Save Images to the Downloads Folder
I am seeing Safari freeze up on me lately. To be fair, I load a ton of concurrent tabs, but Safari cannot handle dealing with that many tabs without gri...
Making Octopress Stylesheets Use A Content Distribution Network
I recently migrated from Posterous to Octopress. When working in development on the site, it is really convenient that all the stylesheets are relative an...
Migrating From Posterous to Octopress
Posterous recently posted a shutdown announcement stating that the service, now owned by Twitter, inc, would be closing up shop on April 30th, 2013. I hav...
If you run a Rails site, you need to update NOW.
Extremely critical Ruby on Rails bug threatens more than 200,000 sites "It is quite bad," Murphy told Ars. "An attack can send a request to any Ruby on Rails...
Automatically Sorting Downloaded Television Episodes From Transmission
If you were to download torrents of television shows frequently, you would probably find that manually sorting the episodes into your media center directorie...
How to Convert Simple Rails 2.3 Style Plugins for Rails 3.2
Upon updating your older project to Rails 3.2, one of the first things you will see is a deprecation notice in your logs: You have Rails 2.3-style plugins in...
UAModalPanel: An Open-Source Modal Panel Alternative for iOS
As seen in Ambiance, UAModalPanel is an alternative modal panel that you can popup in your view controllers to show content that might not ...
How to Cut and Paste a File in Finder Using Keyboard Shortcuts and Automator
I manage a file server with a ton of content. When new stuff comes in most of it gets automagically moved into the right directory, but sometimes I need to m...
I Accidentally Deleted libSystem.B.dylib, Now What?
I was testing the dynamically loaded dependencies of a static ffmpeg binary today, and I saw that libSystem.B.dylib was indeed a dependency. coneybeare $ oto...
How to Determine Which Company Sold Your Gmail Address To Spammers
It happens more than you think. I mean really, have you ever really read the 43 page long terms of agreement that these sites make you agree to before signin...
Custom Coda Theme: “Coneybeare”
I have been using this theme in Xcode and have become quite accustomed to the subtle, light on dark colors of it. It only has 5 colors (KISS) and is easy on ...
How to make an HTML Signature in Apple Mail for Lion OS X 10.7
Looking for Sonoma instructions? Looking for Ventura instructions? Looking for Monterey instructions? Looking for Big Sur instructions? Looking fo...
I Do Mass Quantities Of…
I Do Mass Quantities Of… Coke Code. Yes, those are 1's and 0's on the scale :) A great gift from Aunt Robyn and Uncle Dan Was this page help...
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GoodGuide App Easter Egg
It has been long enough since I worked at GoodGuide that I think I can post this now :) While developing the GoodGuide iPhone app, my part...
Getting A More Accurate Download Count in the Adobe Air Marketplace
Ambiance for the Desktop was released this week and we got some pretty great reviews about it: Gizmodo BoingBoing TUAW These posts drove...
Custom Xcode theme: “Coneybeare”
I have been using this Xcode theme for awhile now and I think its rather nice. If you like it, just copy the line below into terminal ...
Apple tweaked the home screen icon layout in iOS 4.2
I have been using this grid iPhone wallpaper for awhile now and it lined up perfectly until some recent 4.2 build. Notice that in the iOS 4.2 screensho...
Why I no longer worry about minor memory leaks
I have quite a large app out on the app store called Ambiance and have been developing it off and on for about two and a half years now. In the beginning, I ...
Stats on the Ambiance Code Base
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Three20: How to Autoload More Results When You Scroll to the Bottom of a List
Pretty simple setup here. This is setup using a list data source with a TTTableMoreButton as the last item. We just add a hook into the data source for when ...
Public Domain Fail - Whitehouse.gov is blocking access to public RSS feeds and content.
UPDATE: 7/12/10 10:16PM All functionality seems to have been restored. Whether this was a hiccup in the system (probable) or a reversal of the blocking we wi...
Using AudioStreamer with AVAudioPlayer and Avoiding Hardware Locking
In Ambiance, I use some customized AVAudioPlayers to play the apps audio. When possible, these AVAudioPLayers use hardware decoding of the audio files which ...
Edit Google Analytics for iPhone to use a Hidden Database
I use Google Analytics in my iPhone apps to track how my customers are using them. It is very useful for determining the answers to questions such as: - Do ...
What happened with the Ambiance 3.0 failure
The last two days were pretty bad for me. I fucked up bad. I mean really bad. really really bad. As a developer you expect bugs, and even though you do yo...
Getting HTML5 Audio tag and flash fallback to work nicely with all browsers
In implementing the new (yet-to-be-released) html Ambiance audio pages, I wanted to take advantage of modern browsers support of the tag. I loaded it up with...
How to Make Custom Drawn Gradient Backgrounds in a Grouped UITableView with Core Graphics
In iPhone app design, it is important to find a balance between customization and familiarity. Many times, subtle differences are all you need to make yourse...
Overriding -[UINavigationBar drawRect:] to add a custom background image…
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Adding and Saving a Border Around a UIImage with Core Graphics
I recently had to place a border around an image of unknown size and save it back as an image. Here is how: Start with a UIImage: Run it through th...
Proper Alignment of UIImage and UILabel when using UITableViewCellStyleSubtitle
I am working on an iPhone App Project for a client and I decided to use the UITableViewCellStyleSubtitle for one of my views. It was easy to setup and it had...
Custom Ruby Script to Import a Custom Rails Blog to Posterous
Took me 5 minutes. DIRECTIONS: 1) Edit your sql details on line 8 2) Edit for your table columns on lines 11-13 3) Edit your Posterous details on lin...
New Code Blog
After 1 year of non-updates, I am moving my (broken) code blog onto Posterous. Why, you ask? Well, like every Ruby on Rails fanboy, I created my own blogging...
Getting Home With a Dynamically Allocated IP
I recently had my Comcrap Cable shut off for downloading too much. Apparently, my 'unlimited' service did not protect me at all because I use cable. Basic...