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15 Mar

2014

Infinite Scrolling UICollectionView with Asyncronously Loading

By: Jason Jarrett Category:General PostTag: iOS, New Post:

The other day I set out to create an iOS UICollectionView that allowed a user to scroll vertically through an infinite-ish list of items where the data came from a paginated back-end web service. Most of the examples out there deal with synchronous in-memory. I needed an asynchronous paginated example. I’m new enough to iOS […]

1 Mar

2014

rake, psake, grunt, gulp, jake, make, cake, brunch, ant, bash, maven, or fabric. as long as you putOnAHelmet

By: Jason Jarrett Category:General PostTag: Git, New Post:

A standard task I began placing in my projects lately is one that easily integrates with my build tool of choice (rake, psake, etc…) and when run, installs a git pre-commit hook into my local copy of the repo that will run tests before code is committ. I’ve fancied calling the task putOnAHelmet. Come checkout […]

16 Feb

2014

10 Tips for Nailing UI Voice and Style

By: David Starr Category:General PostTag: New Post:

Clearly and concisely articulating oneself through writing can open professional opportunities you never even knew existed. That clarity and conciseness really only comes with practice, but we can all use some great tips to get us started. This quick-tips writing poster came through my email recently and I tracked down it?s creators, Kylie Hansen and […]

12 Feb

2014

Show Us Your Work Boards

By: David Starr Category:General PostTag: New Post:2 Comments

Our team is thinking a lot about work boards right now. By work boards, I mean those information radiators in your hallways and team rooms you use to visualize your work. Work boards could be anything from a formal Scrum Sprint Backlog to a Kanban board to a simple to-do list. Most of them are […]

17 Jan

2014

Awesome talks

By: Jan Van Ryswyck Category:General PostTag: New Post:1 Comment

There are a lot of screencasts, recordings of user group gatherings and conference talks available online. I try to commit myself watching at least two new talks every week, and I’ve been doing this for quite some time now. I created this list of online talks that I really enjoyed watching. I’ll also be updating […]

18 Dec

2013

Format your .Net exceptions to see the StackTrace.

By: Jason Jarrett Category:General PostTag: New Post:3 Comments

TL;DR Check out a dinky little Exception Message Beautifier site I threw together so you can quickly format .net exception messages and easily see the StackTrace. Go to the site: CLICK HERE Background Over the years, I?ve worked on projects where application exceptions were saved to a SQL database. When querying the logs […]

5 Dec

2013

Leave yourself a breadcrumb for tomorrow.

By: Jason Jarrett Category:General PostTag: New Post:3 Comments

Have you ever arrived at work and sat down, not exactly sure what you were working on the day before? You spend some time going through emails. Start looking at your codebase, maybe the last couple commits you made trying to get back into the mental groove you were in the day before. There is […]

29 Nov

2013

Convert an existing WinJS app to use TypeScript

By: Jason Jarrett Category:General PostTag: New Post:

I recently published a little sample project up in the ToTypeScriptD github organization that walks through converting a new Windows 8 WinJS application to TypeScript. It’s intended to show some of the basic first steps it takes to convert a project over to TypeScript and also how you can leverage ToTypeScriptD to help automatically generate […]