by Marc Maset
After almost two years of ’stay at home’ vacation this year my wife and I went to Egypt and Jordan. I forgot how great is to travel, meeting new people, learning new cultures, visiting new places… It was an extremely enjoyable trip, but more importantly, it helped recharge batteries and come up with new ideas. …
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When I choose the backend code for NewsWave several years ago I went with PHP after listening Marco’s recommending it due to its reliability and stability. After several years I can confirm. Apparently a lot of other fellow developers think the same looking at the latest data from Ars Technica. If you’re planning a new project, …
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Today I’ve been working on sorting tasks, as I’m using swiftUI and CoreData I use a FetchRequest with the following SortDescriptor: NSSortDescriptor(keyPath: \Task.targetDate, ascending: true) The idea being it will sort based on the task due date from smallest to the largest, meaning you’ll see the ones you should act on first at the top. …
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Today I worked on the search functionality for the upcoming Product Management app. Given that this app will contain lots of long notes, having good search is essential. In most cases & for most apps, a simple one to one comparison will do the job great -like in the above image-. Here’s how a predicate implementation …
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As I continue working on the new product management app, I was trying to get a quick CoreData count. To be precise, I needed to get the count for how many of its relationships met a given criteria. There’s quite a few approaches but none as clean as “the filter”: Using it for boolean arguments: …
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If you’re working on a new app using the latest Xcode & macOS Monterey betas be aware of a bug that leads to SceneStorage failures appearing on the console: Failed to restore SceneStorage with key selectedTaskId. at SwiftUI/SceneStorage.swift:105[…]Failed to restore SceneStorage with key sidebarSelection. at SwiftUI/SceneStorage.swift:105Binary[2571:23261] Checked for defaults IMKUseDistributedObjects. result is 0Binary[2571:23261] IMK will …
Very interesting article from the NY Times on the ‘downfall’ of IBM’s Watson. Maps quite well with what Steve Jobs said many years ago: “I have my own theory about why the decline happens at companies like IBM or Microsoft. The company does a great job, innovates and becomes a monopoly or close to it …
“How I built this” is a podcast where successful entrepreneurs are interviewed in a very candid way. The ups and downs, the complexities, the long nights… Today I listened to Rich Barton, the creator of Expedia, Zillow and GlassDoor. Both the show, and this specific episode are great: https://overcast.fm/+YsraNZ6eo On a related note, here’s some of …
Good refresher on the key difference between Important and Urgent, good article by David Parks. Here’s the link, worth a read. Marc
For the upcoming app I’m working on I need a way to easily detect dates the user may have typed at the end of a line. It was time to re-visit old faithful regex. After lots of readings and tests I ended up settling on this beauty: “.*[0-9]{2}/[0-9]{2}” Here’s what it does: The …
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