I’ve recently had the problem of trying to display a progress dialog when executing an asynchronous operation and to dismiss that progress dialog when the operation completes. I wanted to build a way to do this that is generic to my application, [ read more...]
Many people have been asking me about my predictions for the future as far as the mobile platforms go. I thought I would take a moment to write up a blog post detailing out what I think we will see in the [ read more...]
I have a very simple rule, I like to follow that helps to simplify my code. “Don’t validate developer input” This rule simply means that we should not try and validate input that came from a source that is not a user [ read more...]
Are you really sure you want to create the cancel button for your application? You know, I might click it. Not only might I click it, I might click it at the most inopportune time. I might click it right in the [ read more...]
Pay attention young programmers, this is the most important piece of programming advice you will ever hear. Well perhaps not, but it might be the most important piece of programming advice you hear today. “Switching gears is grinding gears.” I’ve been doing [ read more...]
Many programmers seems to get caught up on the idea of refactoring. Most of us are familiar with the Boy Scout rule which says: Always leave code better than when you found it But do you actually apply it in your day [ read more...]