Ty's Cubical

This is pretty much a place where I can reblog and say random thoughts I have been thinking. I would also like to tell you that this is just one of the many blogs I have.

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Bankers in Action (1962), Remedios Varo / Bloodbuzz Ohio (2010), The National

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Also this sums up Sherlock and other people.

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Ty’s Tuesday Tech Teach - Proc

Proc are objects in Ruby. In Ruby everything is an object is true, unless you are trying about blocks.

Proc objects are blocks that have no home. They don’t fall under any classes and they are on their own. They are bound to be used on local variables only. 

Most common use case for a Proc file is if you have a specific method in multiple classes but you do not want to continuously repeat yourself. You can set up a block inside a proc and reference it from multiple places when you need it.

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Ty’s Tuesday Tech Teach - Methods

General knowledge comes in handy for multiple reasons. The two biggest reasons that I can think of is a) you are able to talk about code questions or something you are doing or any general voice explaining the process of something and b) to show that you know your shit in an interview, using all the right terms and making sure the person across the table understands too. 

Method: a group of expressions that can be referred by name with arguments and associated with one or more objects. 

def ...... end

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Crowdfunding Post - Font Awesome 5

I knew this would get funded a bunch of times over. It is an awesome video and great way to to market it. I backed this the day it went live but I haven’t gotten around to posting about it. It will be pretty great when it is complete. Font Awesome is everywhere. I have used them in every single project since 2014

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Crowdfunding Post - ECLIPSE 

So happy to back this awesome project, I am considering changing it to two from one. Thanks Native Union, I am currently looking into your AppleWatch stands too.

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Behance Block Working on some new and exciting projects. This has been a long time coming but I can successfully say I'm on track to releasing my first iOS application. It should be in the App Store by the beginning of new year, this is a mock up of one of the screen.

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Ty’s Tuesday Tech Teach -  Learn LESS, learn SASS

Over the last couple of years there has been an increase in both LESS CSS preprocessor language and SASS. SASS has been taking over however and has not slowed down either as there is more focus on language and push changing actively. The new Bootstrap 4 version is a lot of SASS. But there is still a lot of presence in the LESS world too.

If you don’t know about each of them, this is how I will describe them in easy ‘get to the point’ points. 

LESS is a JS library which means it is processed client-side.

SASS on the other hand runs on Ruby and is processed server side. 

But if I was going to learn one or the other, I would work towards SASS right now and if it had to come to it, I would be willing to learn LESS since it has a solid library of documentation for the language. 

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On An iPad - ApplePay

One of the greatest convinces is auto filled forms. Whenever you go to any website that you have already been on and sign in on on your Mac or iPhone will save to iCloud which allows you to access that data on any of your devices. The convince trumps everything and that is exactly what ApplePay does for payments

The validation when purchasing on an iPad is your finger, not the credit card that is downstairs or not in arms length. It’s right there and it’s simple.

Incorporation is happening too, as ApplePay is now in 11 counties and there is a number of applications that support it. And with the new integration into the web, it is now present not just in applications but while surfing on Safari on your iPad.

1996 - Pay with Cash 2006 - Pay with Visa 2016 - Pay with ApplePay

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Ty’s Tuesday Tech Teach - SaveRecord in CloudKit

CloudKit is pretty new for most developers. I have been working with it for one of the applications I am building and I was really struggling with just saving a record to the database. It was such a simple thing looking at the answer and I took way too long on trying to figure it out. 

I ended up posting a question on stack overflow and it was the right answer and I am really happy.

       let itemRecord:CKRecord = CKRecord(recordType: "MyList")        itemRecord.setObject(tAdd.text as CKRecordValue?, forKey: "item")        db.save(itemRecord) { (record: CKRecord?, error: Error?) -> Void in            if error == nil {                print("Record saved")                OperationQueue.main.addOperation({() -> Void in                    self.tAdd.text = ""                })

           }        }

The highlighted line I had wrote multiple ways and every which way threw a specific error on it. It changed how is all displayed in Swift 3.0 and that is what I was struggling with the most out of the whole process. 

Version control and learning what has changed is important when learning Swift because it is changing very fast from the first version to now. 

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On an iPad => Split-View with Twitter

Split-view was introduced in iOS8 for iPad last year. Allowing developers to support split view on apps, making productivity and getting things done faster by displaying two apps at any given time. But what is also is good at is multitasking everything.

When using applications that pull you out of the app to reroute you to safari. I have never surfed Twitter so easily. Any social media with links always end up pulls you out. Even if the general information of the article is there, if you want to read more, especially in the 140 character world of Twitter, you inevitably have to use click throughs to a web page. However in split-view instead of pulling you out of your app and into the safari one, it just switches sides and loads the page. Allowing you to continue to surf and continue to read. Switching back and forth right beside each other.

The best way to surf Twitter is to have Safari opened in split-view

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Behance Post - 6 Core Disciplines of User Experience

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Crowdfunding Post - Prepd Pack

I have wrote about this wonderful box before. But it has caught my eye since they are now selling them and have deal on the pack. They started as a kickstarter project but has expanded and now you are able to buy them direct. Which I would like to just say is pretty awesome for a company which started from the bottom to create such a nice platform for themselves. Some with most of the designs I back, they have turned into something bigger. 

Lunchbox for the 21st century, with complete dishes, snap seal and designed incredible for a lunch box. It also pairs with an iPad application which gives you meal ideas that fill the containers. 

I did not consider purchasing in the past because of the high USD to CAD but since they have deals on the products and the price has came down to a some what reasonable price, I am considering it.