Archive for December, 2009

DocBase Searching

| December 26th, 2009

One thing remained to make my document database at least somewhat useful. We could find documents by document Id, but nothing else, so we’ll fix that now. more »

DocBase – Part 2

| December 23rd, 2009

BRDocBase wasn’t really usable where I left off, so I’ve got a few tasks before it’s at least in a state where I can use it for development purposes.

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DocBase

| December 20th, 2009

So, apparently, I enjoy doing things that have already been done. Perhaps I feel I can do them better, or perhaps I’m just unimaginative and can’t think of anything else to do. Well, what interests me right now is data storage. At this point you could say ‘Dude! CoreData! Get a clue!’ and you’d be right. CoreData is really nice, but I have something a little bit different in mind. more »

Unit Testing in Xcode

| December 16th, 2009

So I’m attempting to blog…again. I think this will be my third attempt. Maybe since all the cool kids have moved on to twitter, I’ll be able make it stick this time. My plan is to mostly journal about a project I’m working, and hopefully blogging about it will help me keep both going.

Before I get started on my project, I’m going to go a bit into unit testing. I admit that I still struggle with writing good unit tests on whatever platform I’m developing for, and really, Xcode doesn’t make it much easier. Things have gotten better in Xcode, but I’m still not really satisfied with the current method for creating unit tests. So I’m stealing a couple of ideas.

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