Was reminded of Paul Graham’s 2009 blog post “Maker’s Schedule, Manager’s Schedule” recently. The article sums up why programmers dislike meetings and if I may add, anything that disrupts their intense train of thought while programming – phone calls, incoming Skype chats, reports, etc. Before I blabber on, let’s play a simple game to help …
Was preparing my personal budget Excel workbook for next year. It contains a Summary worksheet and a worksheet for each month of the year. Copied this year’s workbook, renamed it and thought there must be a better way to clear the month worksheets and set recurring expenses. So I wrote 3 Excel VBA procedures (1 …
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Writing this down after almost pulling my hair out in grappling with the correct syntax as it has been a long while since I coded macros in Excel. To start dabbling with macros in Excel 2013, go to File > Options > Customize Ribbon and tick the checkbox for the Developer tab on the right …
This is a follow-up to Part 1: Creating the app. Forgot to mention that the app was made for iPhone only and not an universal app. I did not want to grapple with sizing on the iPad and besides, we don’t usually carry around iPads during evangelism unlike our phones. This post will talk about …
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Submitted my app to Apple for review a few days ago (Tue 01 Dec 2015). It was programmed in Swift 2.0 using Xcode 7.1.1 on a 12-inch MacBook running OS X El Capitan (version 10.11.1). This post is to chronicle my journey, thought process and workflow, for future reference and in the hope that it …
