Sibling Squabble over Regular Expressions
I was working in Java yesterday to parse a URL that had a somewhat flexible format, so I set up my unit tests, wrote the code in a declarative fashion using indexOf() and substring(),...
Monthly Archive: September 2010
Users Don’t Read? They Don’t Listen, Either!
The company I work for, Availity, LLC, provides (among other things) a web application that allows healthcare providers to submit transactions to insurance companies and get responses, all in real time. Users learn just...
How to Write a Chapter a Week
When Michael Privat (@michaelprivat) and I signed up to write a book for Apress, we both gulped at the schedule: one chapter due each week. He gulped because, despite being a book virgin, it...
We Got a Cover!
Every so often I search Amazon for Pro Core Data for iOS, which I did this morning. Last time I checked, we didn’t have a cover image, but now we do! Look here. I...
From Ablog to Grailbox
After some discussion with Apress, I’ve decided to move my blog from there to here. Many thanks to Apress for hosting my blog all these years. We must still like each other, too, because...
How to Set Up a New MacBook Pro for Development
I recently purchased a MacBook Pro and got a new MacBook Pro at work, so I had two machines to set up. Here are the steps I went through to make these machines tuned...