I had the opportunity to experiment with Cassandra at one point and figured it was worth sharing my experience with
getting started on it. There's a good amount of documentation on it, but figured my distilled learnings here could be
helpful for others. At the very basic, I think Cassandra is great, it's a key value store has some origins from the
Dynamo paper. I've also worked a lot with DynamoDB so it's interesting to compare, though they aren't
completely the same.
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While working on an iOS project, I encountered the realization that a massive storyboard was a bad idea.
It is simple and very easy to implement everything in one storyboard, but a large storyboard has many
drawbacks such as being slow to load, it is difficult to get a complete picture of what is going on, and
if you work with others it can be difficult to deal with version control. In this tutorial, I will
discuss how I separated out the main storyboard into multiple ones and how to get it to work specifically
with a TabBarController. At the end, I will discuss why I approached it the way I did and why I felt it
was a good way to do it, feel free to correct me or suggest other ways as I am still learning Swift and
iOS development!
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Update: June 29, 2015: Added a clarifying example for MyApp name and a template on how the custom configuration
would look like.
Was working on a Rails 4 side project when I realized that I should make a configuration file for a constant that I
wanted. I knew there was a way to do configuration in Rails, but wasn't sure what best practices were so I looked it up.
It turns out that as of Rails 4.2 there is now a configuration
x namespace for you to provide your own custom
configurations!
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While learning iOS programming, it was interesting to try and figure out building a custom Segmented Control
and programmatically adding it to a view. It gives an interesting experience to see how the pieces work
together. Just a disclaimer, I am still learning Swift and iOS programming and these may not be the best
practices but I hope it provides some interesting insights for others who are learning!
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I am currently learning Swift and iOS development and it is quite an interesting ride. There is so much out there
that I pretty much feel like I have been thrown into the ocean. Anyways, I was learning Core Data and was trying
to figure out how to have a text field be multiple lines for a "Notes" section on a To Do list application that
I am using to learn. You need to use a Text View to have multiple lines. Unfortunately XCode doesn't include an
easy way to change the border style!
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