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Re:5 key learnings after 8 years of iOS development on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @07:47AM (#14138036)
Interesting to hear your view on Storyboards. I know what many developers agree with you althought I have never really understood why :) Good that it works for you. And thanks for sharing your thoughts on the article!
Re:5 key learnings after 8 years of iOS development on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @07:38AM (#14137979)
Appreciate your thoughts on this! Core Data is far from trivial but can also be incredibly powerful. I actually think a lot of apps can benefit from the persistence and advanced notification system it offers.
Re:5 key learnings after 8 years of iOS development on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @05:49AM (#14137488)
Thanks for your reply! I don't agree that concurrency is a mess with Core Data, it has good support for this. Of course you need to be careful to get things right, but this goes for whichever technology you are using. As for upgrading the app, if you are doing anything else than a lightweight migration you need to know what you are doing, but that problem doesn't at all go away if you roll your own database layer. I believe Core Data is actually of great help in solving those pretty complex problems.
Re:Show HN: Jason – A new JSON Library for Go on Thursday December 04, 2014 @07:40AM (#8698952)
Seems very handy! Thank you
Re:Show HN: Jason – A new JSON Library for Go on Tuesday December 02, 2014 @11:44AM (#8687998)
Haha, okay. Yes, I just really like the name since it originates from an email sent from one of the project managers at our office: "Don't worry. We can handle both XML and Jason".
Re:Show HN: Jason – A new JSON Library for Go on Tuesday December 02, 2014 @11:37AM (#8687941)
Thanks for your feedback. I created the library simply because it just fits my use cases better. I have used encoding/json quite a lot, and for instance, I think golang's strict types makes it inconvenient to dig through arbitrary maps in a quick way.

That's what the Get-method in Jason is trying to solve. Similar to how bitly/go-simplejson does it, but with some fine tuning.

Estinate.com – Time estimation for developers

Posted by antonholmquist on Wednesday March 19, 2014 @02:34PM
from the self-post dept.

Estinate is a hobby project that I've been working on for some time. As a developer, I'm often asked for time estimates, but I've been struggling to find a tool I like for the job.I really just wanted some simple way to make nested lists and estimate each individual item and share it with project managers and clients.So I set out to create the tool I wanted myself. At the same time I learned...

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