Jaybles

//
//  UIDeviceHardware.h
//
//  Used to determine EXACT version of device software is running on.

#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>

@interface UIDeviceHardware : NSObject 

- (NSString *) platform;

atduskgreg

/* Scrub a video based on mouseX. */
import processing.video.*;
Movie myMovie;

void setup() {
  size(640, 480, P2D);
  background(0);
  // Load the video and pause it
  myMovie = new Movie(this, "station.mov");
  myMovie.pause();

hellerbarde

Latency numbers every programmer should know

L1 cache reference ......................... 0.5 ns
Branch mispredict ............................ 5 ns
L2 cache reference ........................... 7 ns
Mutex lock/unlock ........................... 25 ns
Main memory reference ...................... 100 ns             
Compress 1K bytes with Zippy ............. 3,000 ns  =   3 µs
Send 2K bytes over 1 Gbps network ....... 20,000 ns  =  20 µs
SSD random read ........................ 150,000 ns  = 150 µs

Read 1 MB sequentially from memory ..... 250,000 ns = 250 µs

gdavis

#pragma mark - Phone Number Field Formatting

// Adopted from: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6052966/phone-number-formatting
- (BOOL)textField:(UITextField *)textField shouldChangeCharactersInRange:(NSRange)range replacementString:(NSString *)string
{
    if (textField == self.mobileNumberField || textField == self.homeNumberField || textField == self.workNumberField) {
        int length = [self getLength:textField.text];
        
        if(length == 10) {
            if(range.length == 0)

dergachev

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:

mayoff

#import <UIKit/UIKit.h>
#import <ImageIO/ImageIO.h>
#import <MobileCoreServices/MobileCoreServices.h>

static UIImage *frameImage(CGSize size, CGFloat radians) {
    UIGraphicsBeginImageContextWithOptions(size, YES, 1); {
        [[UIColor whiteColor] setFill];
        UIRectFill(CGRectInfinite);
        CGContextRef gc = UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext();
        CGContextTranslateCTM(gc, size.width / 2, size.height / 2);

larryaasen

# Open the existing Xcode project
project_file = product_name + '.xcodeproj'
project = Xcodeproj::Project.new(project_file)

# Add a file to the project in the main group
file_name = 'Message.m'
group_name = product_name
file = project.new_file(file_name, group_name)

# Add the file to the main target

Moligaloo

+ (void)saveImage:(NSImage *)image atPath:(NSString *)path {
   CGImageRef cgRef = [image CGImageForProposedRect:NULL
                                            context:nil
                                              hints:nil];
   NSBitmapImageRep *newRep = [[NSBitmapImageRep alloc] initWithCGImage:cgRef];
   [newRep setSize:[image size]];   // if you want the same resolution
   NSData *pngData = [newRep representationUsingType:NSPNGFileType properties:nil];
   [pngData writeToFile:path atomically:YES];
   [newRep autorelease];
}

jebai

// Create a UIImage from sample buffer data
- (UIImage *) imageFromSampleBuffer:(CMSampleBufferRef) sampleBuffer
{
    // Get a CMSampleBuffer's Core Video image buffer for the media data
    CVImageBufferRef imageBuffer = CMSampleBufferGetImageBuffer(sampleBuffer);
    
    // Lock the base address of the pixel buffer
    CVPixelBufferLockBaseAddress(imageBuffer, 0);
	
    // Get the number of bytes per row for the pixel buffer

jvns

A lot of these are outright stolen from Edward O'Campo-Gooding's list of questions. I really like his list.

I'm having some trouble paring this down to a manageable list of questions -- I realistically want to know all of these things before starting to work at a company, but it's a lot to ask all at once. My current game plan is to pick 6 before an interview and ask those.

I'd love comments and suggestions about any of these.

I've found questions like "do you have smart people? Can I learn a lot at your company?" to be basically totally useless -- everybody will say "yeah, definitely!" and it's hard to learn anything from them. So I'm trying to make all of these questions pretty concrete -- if a team doesn't have an issue tracker, they don't have an issue tracker.

I'm also mostly not asking about principles, but the way things are -- not "do you think code review is important?", but "Does all code get reviewed?".