February 2012
4 posts
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This post is inspired by Marco’s excellent piece: Right versus pragmatic. I grew up in a small village. When I was 13, I didn’t really have money to buy music, but I still saved up and went to the record store so I could buy Americana. When I was 15, I got my first computer-job (as a php programmer). One month, I even made 1000 guilders (which was a lot for me). On Saturdays, I would...
Feb 27th
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Accessing an API using CoreData's...
Note: I’ve also posted this article on github as gist, for better readability of the code: nsincrementalstore.markdown. In this article, we will see how to use Core Data for accessing your API. We will use the Bandcamp API as our running example. I’ve only been experimenting with this code for a few days, so there might be mistakes in there. One of the problems with accessing an...
Feb 18th
I Use This
I was inspired by people writing about their setup on The Setup, so I decided to write about my own setup. Hardware I use a Mid 2010 Macbook Pro 15” with an SSD. I only switched last week, when my old hard drive was about to die. I don’t use any external screen, keyboard or mouse. Because I travel a lot and work from pretty much everywhere, the HD display is really convenient. I...
Feb 13th
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Becoming a better programmer: Test-Driven...
As I’m enjoying programming again (and more so every week), I started to think consciously again about improving myself as a programmer. After a recommendation of breun I started reading Clean Code, which I can definitely recommend. One of the things I have always felt bad about professionally is not doing Test-Driven Development. Back when I was programming Haskell a lot I did do a lot of...
Feb 8th
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