Martin Kopischke kopischke

Grand Decentral Station – Concept

The concept for Grand Decentral has moved to: https://github.com/grand-decentral-station/concept
Everyone is welcome to join us and help with this idea.

I'm writing in response to events that have recently come to light involving a sexual assault at a tech conference. Background information can be found [here][1], [here][2], and [here][3] as well as on twitter and google.

I've been watching this from the sidelines, and I've been wrestling with several questions that I can't seem to shake and that I really don't have answers to.

I wear many hats, both in the tech community and others. I'm a coder, a speaker, a user group organizer, a conference organizer, and even a boss. Each of those roles colors how I see this, but there's one role that is overpowering in my reaction.

See, I'm a Dad. A dad of two beautiful and innocent girls who are 3 and 2. They have their whole lives in front of them and so the questions I'm struggling with are:

a simple git branching model (written in 2013)

This is a very simple git workflow. It (and variants) is in use by many people. I settled on it after using it very effectively at Athena. GitHub does something similar; Zach Holman mentioned it in this talk.

Update: Woah, thanks for all the attention. Didn't expect this simple rant to get popular.

I don't want anyone to think that I am not a big fan of ReactiveCocoa. I'm a HUGE FAN of it!

But look how LONG it took for something like this to come about. Cocoa is an OLD OLD system, and even though KVO/KVC wasn't there at the birth, it has been there at least a decade. I pretty much gave up on Obj-C in favor of RubyMotion, and look at our landscape: Futuristic, ProMotion, Formotion, Geomotion, Elevate, Teacup - all of these projects bring expressiveness to Cocoa, and RubyMotion is barely a year old.

So what I meant to say is that Obj-C suffers from a lack of expressiveness - this has nothing to do with ReactiveCocoa, that's just my example. To illustrate my point, I will translate the first example of the ReactiveCocoa README. I encourage you to read the ReactiveCocoa source and try and consolidate all the code that is used to handle this function. I will include all of the Ruby code that is necessary for my translation to work.

I do have one qualm with ReactiveCocoa: the names. I'm going to t

OS X Screencast to animated GIF

This gist shows how to create a GIF screencast using only free OS X tools: QuickTime, ffmpeg, and gifsicle.

Instructions

To capture the video (filesize: 19MB), using the free "QuickTime Player" application:

	#!/Library/RubyMotion/bin/ruby -wKUW0
	# if your using MacRuby you might change this to
	# => #!/usr/bin/env macruby -wKUW0

	framework 'Foundation'
	framework 'ScriptingBridge'
	# the original is part of an arstechnica article by Ryan
	# SOURCE: http://arstechnica.com/apple/2011/09/tutorial-os-x-automation-with-macruby-and-the-scripting-bridge/
	# this script with get your favourite songs and create a Evernote Note # German and English

	(function () {

	if (!window.fluid) {
	alert("This script is meant to be run in Fluid! You should disable it.");
	return;
	}

	window.fluid.dockBadge = '';
	setInterval(newNotif, 500);

	# code inspired from http://jainmarket.blogspot.com/2009/05/creating-custom-table-view-cell.html

	class CustomCell < UITableViewCell

	attr_accessor :primaryLabel
	attr_accessor :secondaryLabel

	def createLabels

	@primaryLabel = UILabel.alloc.init

	class Transformer
	def self.withName(name, class:klass, &block)
	if block_given?
	transformer = Transformer.new(&block)
	transformer.build(name, transformedValueClass:klass)
	end
	end

	def initialize(&dsl_code)
	@transform = @reverse = nil

	<?
	/**
	* twitterfeed.php
	*
	* A single file script which serves an authenticated personal Twitter timeline as an Atom feed.
	*
	* To use:
	* 1) Go to https://dev.twitter.com/apps and create a new App
	* 2) Use the Authentication button to create the tokens/secrets needed
	* 3) Copy the results into the appropriate spots below