Working with REST Index
Article Series, “Working with REST” This post is simply an index, to help navigate through the articles. Working with REST Making a connection using Swift Connecting with C++
Connecting with C++
Connecting to a local server, using C++ Previously … We connected to our local JSON server using a console app, writen in Swift: Making a connection using Swift In this article, we are going to do the same thing, this time using C++. Libraries Swift comes with a large library of functionality, including classes to …
Making a connection using Swift
Previously Part 1, Working with REST In the previous article, we installed a local JSON server, to make testing the app we are about to create in this article, fast. In this article, we are going to create a console app, using Swift. In the following article, we will be doing the same process, using …
Working with REST
An introduction on the server technology and how to connect your app to a web endpoint Intro This is the first article, in a series. By the end of the series, you should be able to connect your app, whether macOS, iOS, console, to a REST endpoint. There are a lot of articles on the …
Rationalizing the expense of attending a C++ conference
In my mind, it is always a win to go to a C++ conference. There are still managers who are against sending developers to conferences, for their own reasons, many of which I disagree with. Not because I myself am a C++ developer, but because, as a community of developers, we do seek the opportunity …
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Android Studio weirdness
Or I should write, macOS and Android Studio not playing well with each other. I updated my installation of Android Studio to 3.4 and something unexpected happened almost every time I brought up the “Find action” menu (Command+Shift+A) where Terminal.app would pop up immediately after the “Find action” menu popped up. Turns out, this was …
USB Overdrive to the rescue
Earlier this year, I took the plunge and bought myself a WASD Code Keyboard, with Cherry MX Green buttons and 0.2mm sound dampeners… it’s oh soooo nice! (http://www.wasdkeyboards.com/index.php/products/code-keyboard/code-104-key-mechanical-keyboard-mx-green.html This keyboard was paired up to my 2017 MacBook Pro; I type a lot for a living and and mechanical keyboards work well for what I do. …
If you want to make your own card game
This site seems like the place to get it done: https://www.blackbox.cool These folks are the creators of “Cards Against Humanity” and to boot, the site looks cool.
Cool terminal app
Sometimes I run really long tasks in Terminal.app. I sometimes wait. I sometimes go somewhere else and forgot that it was running. It would be so cool to have Terminal.app use Notifications to let me know that it is done. Well. Thankfully, someone has done just that and it can be downloaded via homebrew. To …
Perforce DVCS and iCloud Drive
I use Perforce DVCS for almost all of my projects: it’s a great new feature for p4, and I use it on a daily basis, given, I usually away from my home server. Now, there is one DVCS instance I use, which happens to be on my iCloud Drive folder. That seemed to work well …