Things I Made

Apps, sites and projects of mine. 6 posts.

Little Bites of Cocoa 🍫 ▸

September 8, 20153 min readThings I Made, iOS Development

I suppose it’s about time I wrote about Little Bites of Cocoa. I’ve been having a blast with it. Here’s a little about how it came to be: The idea was simple. Daily bite-sized (get it?) tips and tricks to give readers a brief overview or explanation of a particular concept, technique, or tool. I… Read more of Little Bites of Cocoa 🍫 →

atom-spotify ▸

March 1, 20141 min readThings I Made, Open Source

I’ve been really loving Github’s new Atom editor. I’ve also been blown away by the number of packages that have already been published only a few days after the project went public. Like most developers, I often like to crank the music while writing code. My music service of choice (at the moment… Read more of atom-spotify →

Say Hello to my new Minimalistic Weather App, Conditions for iOS! ▸

February 21, 20132 min readThings I Made

I’m extremely happy to announce that my all-new minimalistic weather app, Conditions for iOS, is now live on the App Store! Seriously, Another Weather App? I wanted a beautiful app that would give me a quick answer to the question of What’s the weather like?… Read more of Say Hello to my new Minimalistic Weather App, Conditions for iOS! →

Create Static Content Screens with Ease! ▸

July 26, 20124 min readiOS Development, Open Source, Things I Made

I often find myself needing to create what I call “static content” UITableViewControllers. Whether it be a “Support” or “About” screen, or possibly a simple “Login” or “Settings” screen, I find myself writing a ton of annoying, repetitive, boilerplate code… Read more of Create Static Content Screens with Ease! →

Save Time and Code With JMWhenTapped

April 27, 20111 min readiOS Development, Open Source, Things I Made

I’ve just released a new little helper library for iOS development. It’s called JMWhenTapped. It’s is a simple little syntactical-sugar addition to all UIView objects, as well as any class that inherits from UIView. It allows you to assign touch-up, touch-down, and tapped (touched down then up)… Read more of Save Time and Code With JMWhenTapped →

Introducing: JMImageCache

February 19, 20112 min readiOS Development, Open Source, Things I Made

Today I’m open-sourcing a small project I use to do remote image downloading and caching on iOS called JMImageCache. It uses an NSCache based remote-image caching mechanism that can be easily integrated into any project. It is very light weight and isn’t meant to be a replacement for UIImageView… Read more of Introducing: JMImageCache →