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Category Archives: software-engineering
Using Objective-C on the server
My talk at NSConf was about cross-platform Objective-C. Those people who I talked to after the session will know that my goal is clear. There are plenty of people out there who have learned Objective-C to get onto the iOS … Continue reading
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Confine ALL the things!
I was talking with Saul Mora at lunchtime about NSManagedObjectContext thread confinement. We launched into an interesting thought experiment: what if every object ran on its own thread? This would be interesting. You can never use a method that returns … Continue reading
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How to TDD with CATCH
Plenty of people have asked me about the TDD framework I use. While the book Test-Driven iOS Development has code using OCUnit (for pragmatic, and previously-covered, reasons); I am currently more frequently to be discovered using Phil Nash’s CATCH framework. … Continue reading
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Security: probably doing it wrong
Being knowledgable in the field of information security is useful and beneficial. However, it’s not sufficient, and while it’s (somewhat) easy to argue that it’s necessary there’s a big gap between being a security expert and making software better, or … Continue reading
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On standards in free software engineering
I have previously written on the economics of software insecurity, and I quote a couple of paragraphs from that post below: One option that is not fully explored in the book, but which I believe could be worth exploring, is … Continue reading
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On the economics of software insecurity
This post is mainly motivated by having read Geekonomics: the real cost of insecure software, by David Rice. Since writing the book Rice has apparently been hired by Apple, though his bio at the Geekonomics site doesn’t mention that (nor … Continue reading
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Why your security UI sucks
The principle recurring problem in user experience is creating a user interface that supports the user’s mental model of how an app works, while simultaneously enabling the actions that are actually supported by the implementation’s model of the problem domain. … Continue reading
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Want to hire iamleeg?
Well, that was fun. For nearly a year I’ve been running Fuzzy Aliens, a consultancy for app developers to help get security and privacy requirements correct, reducing the burden on the users. This came after a year of doing the … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Policy, Responsibility, software-engineering
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TDD/unit testing video training for iOS developers
I recently recorded a series of videos on unit testing and test-driven development for iOS developers with Scotty of iDeveloper.tv. The videos and associated source code is now available for purchase and download.
Posted in code-level, iDeveloper.TV, iPad, iPhone, software-engineering, Talk, TDD, tool-support
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On what Marcus said
This post is a response to Why so serious? over at Cocoa is my Girlfriend. Read that. Welcome back. OK, so firstly let’s talk about that damned carousel. Kudos to the developer who wrote a nice smoothly scrolling layer-backed image … Continue reading
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