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Re: Every Dyson Product We’ve Tested, Ranked

Sam Soffes — Thu, 20 Jun 2019 10:32:41 -0000

"Every Dyson Product We’ve Tested, Ranked"

Re: Context Transforms - NSScreencast

Sam Soffes — Mon, 24 Jul 2017 21:23:24 -0000

Ya, it was mainly for clarity. You could concatenate most of the transforms here.

Re: 开发问题 | 点滴生活

Sam Soffes — Sun, 12 Feb 2017 22:37:15 -0000

Thanks so much! I had added a framework's Info.plist to my app by mistake. Removing that fixed it.

Google Translated:

非常感谢！我已经添加了一个框架的Info.plist到我的应用程序错误。删除固定它。

Re: CocoaPods vs Carthage

Sam Soffes — Mon, 12 Sep 2016 17:17:54 -0000

Carthage is indeed great. My favorite part is it doesn't mess with your project like CocoaPods. That said, local development of a dependency is pretty cumbersome with Carthage. Pros & cons. (I exclusively use Carthage.)

Minor nits: it's "Xcode" not "XCode". Also shouldn't that be "carthage bootstrap" instead of "carthage update" as someone joining a project?

Re: Lawsuit accuses Skully co-founders of looting company

Sam Soffes — Tue, 09 Aug 2016 23:48:35 -0000

That would be great, but I seriously doubt they made anything other than that video.

Re: App of the Week: Seesaw - Cocoa Controls

Sam Soffes — Mon, 20 May 2013 14:38:46 -0000

Here's everything we use: https://gist.github.com/sof...

Re: Why I Don’t Use Interface Builder

Sam Soffes — Tue, 14 May 2013 10:43:05 -0000

For me Storyboards have been a huge waste of time. Pushing stuff onto a navigation controller or showing modals is one line of code. Depending how you present things, you can't always go back. So now you have code to go one direction and not the other.

Personally, I find the visual map of my app really useless. Even for simple apps, it's usually more complicated than a simple Storyboard.

Anyway, if you are productive using IB or just Storyboards, have at it. If you're productive doing it in assembly, have at it. I think trying without IB is a good learning experience, but everyone should do whatever works for them. Personally, I think if you're using IB or Storyboards, you have the opportunity to be more productive.

Re: Why I Don’t Use Interface Builder

Sam Soffes — Tue, 14 May 2013 10:35:56 -0000

Exactly. It's a shame more resources don't start you off in code. It's much simpler in my opinion.

Re: Why I Don’t Use Interface Builder

Sam Soffes — Tue, 14 May 2013 10:35:10 -0000

I usually open up Photoshop (but something like Acron, etc will totally work) to measure stuff from the designs. I often take screenshots of the simulator and measure that as well to avoid guessing.

Re: Why I Don’t Use Interface Builder

Sam Soffes — Tue, 14 May 2013 10:34:07 -0000

Exactly :)

Re: How I Design for iOS

Sam Soffes — Mon, 06 May 2013 13:23:04 -0000

Good stuff. The tools don't matter that much. I find Fireworks' color picker maddening, so I still use Photoshop. I like the idea of everything being vector though. Sketch is also really neat. I'm really slow in it though.

Re: How I Design for iOS

Sam Soffes — Mon, 06 May 2013 13:22:09 -0000

Thanks for you kind words :)

Re: Products, Design, Software, Life • littlebigdetails: Dropbox - iOS app...

Sam Soffes — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 23:26:59 -0000

Pretty great

Re: Yours vs. Mine, a UI Conundrum

Sam Soffes — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 18:53:23 -0000

I always go with your. It's not my website (well it is actually mine, but you know what I mean).

Re: Reachability With RubyMotion

Sam Soffes — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 13:25:10 -0000

Why not override init in ServerClient and have it call setupReachability? Your AppDelegate shouldn't have to know about that implementation detail.

Re: My thoughts on BlackBerry 10

Sam Soffes — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 13:30:09 -0000

Spot on.

Re: Customizing the iOS keyboard

Sam Soffes — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 21:59:35 -0000

Do you know if it's possible to customize the insertion point color?

Re: Push Pop Press updates Our Choice for the iPad Retina Display

Sam Soffes — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 20:32:59 -0000

Very cool. Those guys are awesome. I'd love to see some Facebook stuff come out that is this high quality.

Re: http://blog.tannerherriott.com/post/21476559657

Sam Soffes — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 00:15:27 -0000

So hot.

Re: The Apps are Too Damn Big

Sam Soffes — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 00:15:03 -0000

Love it. It's really hard to keep universal apps small, especially if the design is pretty custom with lots of full screen textures. It would be great if Apple came up with a better solution. Eventually, everything will be @2x and this solves that problem too.

Re: Sinatra VS Rails

Sam Soffes — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 03:12:23 -0000

I agree with @Kaspar Schiess Rails is definitely harder, but it will talk to a database, handle migrations, do view inheritance, and tons of other stuff that requires tons of work or external libraries. There are lots of books, screencasts, blog posts, etc on Rails. The number of stuff on how to cobble together a bunch of gems and Sinatra is way less.

Don't get me wrong, Sinatra is great for simple stuff. I definitely think Rails has it's place, even for a beginner.

Re: http://chriseppstein.github.com/blog/2011/06/05/my-daughters-first-pair-programming-session

Sam Soffes — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 02:13:58 -0000

That is really awesome. That must have been so great!

Re: Concept: Decentralized Zero-Conf VPN

Sam Soffes — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 20:00:53 -0000

Sounds awesome! Please build it :)

Re: Why Doesn’t Facebook Look Like This? Because Twitter Does.

Sam Soffes — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 22:05:46 -0000

#newtwitter is overwhelming for a lot of users. There is a lot of data on the screen for your eyes to take in. For power users, that's fine. For people like my mom, they just want the old one back.

I think multi-column Facebook would be cool, but for 90% of their users, it would be too complicated.

Re: http://blog.bradgarland.net/post/581752061

Sam Soffes — Sat, 08 May 2010 17:33:19 -0000

That was excellent! Conan is awesome.