Posts Tagged ‘development’

Performs Ruby method in background


2009
04.29

The easy of use I encountered when I first looked at Cocoa and Objective-C was overwhelming. I have to say that my first development environment was Windows 95 with its cryptic BitBlt function which was the only way to fast draw an image on screen. Five years after I had that experience and just before the advent of . Net Windows hackers had still to resort to the BitBlt function, or start using Direct X which is over kill for a simple app.
Than I met the beauty of Cocoa, where simple stuff is kept simple and complicated stuff gets really complicated! But Cocoa stays consistence with its logic and its way of providing solutions to programmers.
Today I want to take a little piece of Cocoa knowledge to ruby. The ability to spawn new threads like “performSelectorInBackground:withObject”.

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Aspect the Ruby way


2009
04.28

The main purpose of this file is to be able to split the development code from the debugging code. Exploiting the fantastic ability of meta-programming in ruby, there is a way to write less and code more. Following the ruby way of not repeating code everywhere let’s start with this simple showcase:

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Start date chosen


2009
04.24

At this stage of development everything is up and running(thanks a lot to wordpress, php, opensource… but more to it later.

Before I start posting, I have to decide on important matters that will lay out the future direction this blog will take. 

The planned start date is the 1 May.


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