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Atari's Pong, Built With RubyMotion

Atari's Pong, Built With RubyMotion

Atari’s Pong is a classic video arcade game from the 1970s. Seeing Pong always gives me childhood flashbacks. Pong in Objective-C I recently completed the iOS Accelerated course at the Mobile Makers Academy. For one of our homework assignments, we...
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Apprenticeship Patterns

Apprenticeship Patterns

In times of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.- Eric Hoffer, Reflections on the Human Condition Blogger’s Note: This review of...
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Automatic ctags with RubyMotion and Vim

Automatic ctags with RubyMotion and Vim

RubyMotion includes a rake task that generates Exuberant Ctags. To generate tags, run the following in the root directory of a RubyMotion project. $ rake ctags Make Ctags Better With Automation Ctags make writing code more efficient. But we shouldn’t...
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The Vast and Endless Sea

All of us are inspired when we have a big goal to achieve. Antoine De Saint-Exupery expresses the idea well: If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the people to gather wood, divide the work and give...
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Why I Use Vim

Why I Use Vim

My primary code-writing tools are: Xcode for Objective-C. Vim for Ruby, RubyMotion, and everything else. Here are my reasons for using Vim, in priority order:
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Code Pilot for Xcode Navigation

Code Pilot for Xcode Navigation

Code Pilot is a free tool that lets developers navigate quickly between files in Xcode. I was introduced to the tool yesterday by Don Bora, instructor of the Mobile Makers iOS Accelerated course that I’m currently taking. Starting Code Pilot...
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