Unit Testing in iOS
Here’s a few links to help with unit testing on iOS… Tools Specta Expecta OCMockito Cedar OCMock
Author: danny
BaaS
There’s plenty of lists of BaaS offerings out there, but some of them have since disappeared/consolidated. So here’s a list based on my findings as of today:
Swift for the Server – Update
It’s been a year now and Apple has announced that they are open-sourcing Swift. I’d like to take this time to update my previous prediction.
The Social Impact of Uber, Lyft, et al
One of my friends pointed out one of the really unique things about San Francisco was that *everyone* takes public transportation: business people, moms, kids, retirees, college students, and even “hooligans”.
SSL on the cheap
Sometimes all you need is to encrypt your web traffic. Here’s some services that may be useful to you:
Version Control for Big Repositories (git, svn, mercurial)
These days git appears to have won the SCM “wars”. While it’s fantastic for what it was intended (source code), it has some short-comings when you try to use it for large (i.e. >10 GB) repositories.
Simple Backup to Amazon S3
A quick guide to backing up on Amazon S3
Mandrill vs Mailjet – A Very Cursory Comparison
There’s plenty of reviews out there for these two transactional mail services. But here’s a few “at a glance” items that’s not obvious from most reviews I’ve come across.
Using a VPS for email hosting
There’s a number of reasons you might want to how your own email server. For me, it’s mostly about control. I want to make sure I always have access to all my information. And having lived through the early days of the Internet back in the early 90’s, I’ve lived through many transitions away from […]
WebSockets
They’re pretty dumb. But they’re better than nothing.