Unicode Symbol as Text or Emoji

Unicode symbol as text or emoji Append https://codepoints.net/U+FE0E to make a Unicode symbol render as text.

April 23, 2015 · Matthias Lüdtke

When tech is fully adopted, it disappears.

When tech is fully adopted, it disappears. — Mobile Is Eating the World

November 2, 2014 · Matthias Lüdtke

Alfred: UIColor from Hex

Being tired of manually creating UIColor instances from hexadecimal representations (and not always having a category on UIColor handy for this) I finally hacked together this humble Alfred script to do just that: E voilà, we now have this string waiting in the clipboard: [UIColor colorWithRed:19.0f/256.0f green:55.0f/256.0f blue:66.0f/256.0f alpha:1.0f] Download Workflow from GitHub: UIColor-from-Hex.alfredworkflow

October 16, 2013 · Matthias Lüdtke

Incremental Development — No Silver Bullet

Incremental development — grow, don’t build, software. I still remember the jolt I felt in 1958 when I first heard a friend talk about building a program, as opposed to writing one. In a flash he broadened my whole view of the software process. The metaphor shift was powerful, and accurate. Today we understand how like other building processes the construction of software is, and we freely use other elements of the metaphor, such as specifications, assembly of components, and scaffolding. ...

May 20, 2012 · Matthias Lüdtke

Marco Arment on 'interesting' features

Geeks like us are always tempted to implement very complex, never-ending features because they’re academically or algorithmically interesting, or because they can add massive value if done well, such as speech or handwriting recognition, recommendation engines, or natural-language processing. These features — often very easy for people but very hard for computers — often produce mediocre-at-best results, are never truly finished, and usually require massive time investments to achieve incremental progress with diminishing returns. ...

January 26, 2011 · Matthias Lüdtke

Fowler on Craftmanship

The software shouldn’t be at the center of a programmer’s world, instead a programmer should focus on the benefit that the software is supposed to deliver. – http://martinfowler.com/bliki/CraftmanshipAndTheCrevasse.html

January 21, 2011 · Matthias Lüdtke

Fowler on Productivity

I assert that any true measure of software development productivity must be based on delivered business value. – http://martinfowler.com/bliki/CannotMeasureProductivity.html

November 21, 2010 · Matthias Lüdtke

Fowler and Rebecca Parsons on DSLs

http://www.drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/228200852 Good overview, Q&A style. Remember to keep your DSL simple (otherwise it might morph into just another L)

November 21, 2010 · Matthias Lüdtke

Advanced Regular Expressions

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/05/06/introduction-to-advanced-regular-expressions/ I always forget about word boundaries and back references. Source: stackoverflow.com

November 16, 2010 · Matthias Lüdtke