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A side-channel response to my "recent tirade against PHP on BoingBoing".

Subject: Computer language designers, or how to shoot yourself in the foot.
From: CJ <c…@gmail.com>
To: Tim Taylor <tim@tool-man.org>
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 22:15:37 -0500

In your recent tirade against PHP on BoingBoing, you capped your arguments with:

My top gripes are that PHP:

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#!/bin/bash
set -ex

# This scripts allows you to upload a binary to the iTunes Connect Store and do it for a specific app_id
# Because when you have multiple apps in status for download, xcodebuild upload will complain that multiple apps are in wait status

# Requires application loader to be installed
# See https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/LanguagesUtilities/Conceptual/iTunesConnect_Guide/Chapters/SubmittingTheApp.html
# Itunes Connect username & password
USER=bla

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Git config

$ git config --global -e
[merge]
    keepBackup = false;
    tool = p4merge
[mergetool "p4merge"]
    cmd = p4merge "$BASE" "$REMOTE" "$LOCAL" "$MERGED"

keepTemporaries = false

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REGEDIT4
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Keyboard Layout]
"Scancode Map"=hex:00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,02,00,00,00,1d,00,3a,00,00,00,00,00

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# usage:
#   perl xml-decode.pl FILE

use XML::LibXML;

binmode STDOUT;

my $parser = XML::LibXML->new();
my $doc = $parser->parse_file($ARGV[0]);

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if [ "$PS1" != "" ] ; then      # Interactive shells only
    case "$TERM" in
        xterm*|vt100|screen|ansi)
            export PS1="\[\033[0;36m\]\u@$(hostname):\$($HOME/.shortpwd)\[\033[0m\]\$ "
            ;;
        *)
            export PS1="\u@$(hostname):\$($HOME/.shortpwd)\$ "
            ;;
    esac
fi

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#import "Kiwi.h"

@protocol Proto <NSObject>
- (void)beep;
@end

@interface Conformer : NSObject <Proto>
@end
@implementation Conformer
- (void)beep {}

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@interface Any : NSObject <HCMatcher>
@end
@implementation Any
- (BOOL)isEqual:(id)object { return object != [KWNull null]; }
- (BOOL)matches:(id)item { return YES; }
@end

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The programming environment for iOS and OS X — shorthand Cocoa — is a fascinating mix of polished, mature tools and immature or non-existent tools. This shows in the relative recency of official testing support, lack of official library dependency management, and the new growth of projects in the Cocoa ecosystem to fill these gaps. Mature in terms of getting products to market, the iOS developer community is just now walking around on its feet when it comes to practices Rubyists, for example, take for granted.

Demonstrated through building a new Cocoa Touch app, I will show what modern iOS development looks like using mostly Open Source tools and frameworks:

• CocoaPods for managing library dependencies
• Kiwi BDD for RSpec style testing
• Frank/Cucumber for automated specification testing of the UI
• Jenkins for Continuous Integration
• Test Flight for over-the-air Continuous Delivery

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#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>

@interface NSString (DLStringUtil)
- (BOOL)DL_isNotEmpty;
- (BOOL)DL_isNotBlank;
@end