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August 9, 2013 in Learn
Recently, I launched a product with my friend Drew Wilson called Roon. It’s a really simple and beautiful blogging platform. Roon has a web app, iOS app, and API. I thought it would be good to write some about how…
July 9, 2013 in Learn
Part 2 of this SAMGradientView tutorial covers how to make a good open source library. I cover writing a good readme, writing documentation, testing, and publishing a pod to CocoaPods. Check out Part 1 if you missed it before. Links…
July 1, 2013 in Learn
This is a play-by-play screencast of me moving a component out of SSToolkit into its own library. I cover setting up a good open source component, writing Core Graphics drawing code, a bit of low-level C stuff, and some of…
May 13, 2013 in Learn
For iOS development, I don’t use Interface Builder. I haven’t willfully used a NIB (when I say NIB, I mean Interface Builder file, not the specific format) since iOS 2.0. In the past, I’ve worked with a few folks that…
May 6, 2013 in Learn
As a developer, designing is a big challenge. My process is a lot different than “normal designers”. I design much like I code: trial and error. When I’m programming, it’s constantly running the tests to see what failed, trying a…
April 16, 2013 in Learn
Sam Soffes is a iOS and Rails software engineer, musician, wanna be designer, and burger connoisseur. He lives in Lousiville, KY right now, but will be moving back to San Francisco in the fall. He previously worked at Hipstamatic, but…
