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  • David Worth
    Cast aside that debugger and use your test-suite
    David Worth Back-End | Leveling Up
    Apr 10, 2012

    Tools on pegboard 2012-04-03 09.26.50

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  • Mark Dalrymple
    Protocols, part 1 : Why?
    Mark Dalrymple Mac | iOS
    Apr 9, 2012

    A comment from a reader of Objective-C Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide came through on the forums, asking about Objective-C protocols. Specifically, why do we need them? Why do they exist?

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  • Steven Harman
    Reasonable RSpec Config for Clean, and Slightly Faster, Specs
    Steven Harman Back-End
    Apr 6, 2012

    Database-bound tests are a drag. Inconsistent tests are a pain. Database-bound, inconsistently failing tests are the worst!

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  • Mike Skalnik
    vim-vroom
    Mike Skalnik Back-End
    Apr 3, 2012

    Vim logo

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  • Steven Harman
    Weekend Update: Open-Source Software Contributions
    Steven Harman Back-End
    Apr 2, 2012

    Weekend Update

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  • Jon Woodroof
    Staying in the Groove at Highgroove!
    Jon Woodroof
    Apr 2, 2012

    Aping the FitDesk courtesy: @twotoneatl

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  • Mark Dalrymple
    Checking Assumptions: -measuring isEqual[ToString]: performance
    Mark Dalrymple Mac | iOS
    Mar 29, 2012

    The last post about isEqual: vs isEqualToString: included some timings I made to test the performance of those two calls, along with compare:. That posting mentioned going down a rabbit hole, verifying commonly held beliefs of about isEqualToString:. The other rabbit hole I went down related to the performance tuning. A couple of commenters on the post asked some good questions relating to the timings, especially about literal strings.

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  • Daniel Rice
    Highgroove Made Me Super Efficient And All I Got Was This Lousy Free Time???
    Daniel Rice
    Mar 27, 2012

    Time Warp

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  • Mark Dalrymple
    isEqual: vs isEqualToString:
    Mark Dalrymple Mac | iOS
    Mar 26, 2012

    _TL;DR: When to use isEqual: or isEqualToString:? There’s no meaningful performance difference between the two. For convenience use isEqual:. For a modicum of type safety use isEqualToString:, but it’s not as safe as you might believe. If you have unicode strings with different normalizations, use compare:. Be careful if nils are involved. _

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  • David Worth
    The anti-meetings - The Weekly Huddles
    David Worth
    Mar 26, 2012

    Empty Meeting room

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