Matt Thomas codecaffeine

Ground Control by @mattt is a great iOS library to remotely configure your iOS app by sending plists from a server to your app and then updating the user defaults values.

I wanted to extend this a bit with the following ideas in mind:

Define the values in a JSON file, instead of uploading an updated plist file to the server
Define values independently for given bundle identifiers, bundle version and language combination, so I can modify e.g. beta and debug versions independently from released apps
Values can be defined in a default language for a bundle version and overwritte on language specific entries like en. You can also only use default or only use specific languages
Return an empty plist for all unknown bundle identifiers or bundle versions
Don't check for config updates on every startup or every time the app becomes active, but only once a day or a remotely configurable amount of days
Right now the server side ph

Tales From a Heroku User

Here are some things I have learned along the way.

Last Updated: 2013-02-08

Original Audience: Hack Reactor

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Locate the section for your github remote in the .git/config file. It looks like this:

[remote "origin"]
	fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
	url = [email protected]:joyent/node.git

Now add the line fetch = +refs/pull/*/head:refs/remotes/origin/pr/* to this section. Obviously, change the github url to match your project's URL. It ends up looking like this:

Accessing an API using CoreData's NSIncrementalStore

Note: the original location of this article is on my blog, however, it is posted here too for better readability.

In this article, we will see how to use Core Data for accessing your API. We will use the Bandcamp API as our running example. I've only been experimenting with this code for a few days, so there might be mistakes in there.

	CGRect CGRectIntegralScaledEx(CGRect rect, CGFloat scale)
	{
	return CGRectMake(floorf(rect.origin.x * scale) / scale, floorf(rect.origin.y * scale) / scale, ceilf(rect.size.width * scale) / scale, ceilf(rect.size.height * scale) / scale);
	}

	CGRect CGRectIntegralScaled(CGRect rect)
	{
	return CGRectIntegralScaledEx(rect, [[UIScreen mainScreen] scale]);
	}

	#define POLL_INTERVAL 0.05 //50ms
	#define N_SEC_TO_POLL 1.0 //poll for 1s
	#define MAX_POLL_COUNT N_SEC_TO_POLL / POLL_INTERVAL

	- (void) testAnAsynchronousFunction
	{
	__block BOOL done = NO;

	//do async on a delay
	float delayInSeconds = 0.5;

	#!/bin/sh

	# Launch application using ios-sim and set up environment to inject test bundle into application
	# Source: http://stackoverflow.com/a/12682617/504494

	if [ "$RUN_APPLICATION_TESTS_WITH_IOS_SIM" = "YES" ]; then
	test_bundle_path="$BUILT_PRODUCTS_DIR/$PRODUCT_NAME.$WRAPPER_EXTENSION"
	environment_args="--setenv DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES=/../../Library/PrivateFrameworks/IDEBundleInjection.framework/IDEBundleInjection --setenv XCInjectBundle=$test_bundle_path --setenv XCInjectBundleInto=$TEST_HOST"
	ios-sim launch $(dirname $TEST_HOST) $environment_args --args -SenTest All $test_bundle_path
	echo "Finished running tests with ios-sim"

	#!/usr/bin/env python

	import argparse, os, re, subprocess

	parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
	parser.add_argument('--sdk', default='', help='OS X or iOS SDK directory')
	parser.add_argument('--no-frameworks', action='store_true', default=False, help='do not print frameworks, only unprefixed classes')
	args = parser.parse_args()

	print_frameworks = not args.no_frameworks