Yearly Archives: 2012

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Defensive UIDocument Coding, Part 1

Apple’s UIDocument class is almost mandatory if you are going to be interacting with iCloud. Although, in theory, you can get by without using, there are a lot of file locking and other related concerns that it handles for you. Even if you’re not using iCloud, it makes for a nice way to save and […]

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Code Quality and the Agile Team

In one of my recent reads, the authors tossed out a sentence that first struck me as provocative:

From a business perspective, creating clean and well-written is very hard to justify.
My first reaction was probably the same as yours - "Say what?!?" Fortunately, they immediately went on to clarify exactly what they meant by that.

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Welcome to Silver Bay Technologies!

When Kevin and I started Silver Bay Software back in 2008, the revolution in iPhone apps was just beginning, and so we decided to try our hand. Kevin had already established himself as a successful freelance developer and I had been running my consulting practice, “The Durst Group,” since 2005. The results of that first […]

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