As an AWS Advanced Consulting Partner, Metal Toad helps our clients identify their cloud solutions. However, one question I frequently hear is, “If...
A few years ago, I had the good fortune to travel to London to visit some friends. But before I talk about my trip, there is something you must know...
"Grove Park Traincare Depot and sidings" (CC BY-SA 2.0) by train_photos
Swift Talk #1 and #8 introduces an approach (hereinafter al
Recently I've been designing a few mobile apps. The first app was designed from scratch for both iOS and Android.
Ever since Grace Hopper came up with the A language programmers have been trying to create new languages and processes that make it easier to do work...
When you’re making a basic, edge-to-edge UICollectionView in interface builder, Xcode has a habit of describing it using
Now that WatchOS 2.0 is released we have more than just frame animations in the SDK. It now has animation support for moving things around on-screen.
Previously, we published a script to work around the opaque iOS Simulator folder structure on Xcode 6.
This past week, a couple of us at Metal Toad traveled down to San Francisco for WWDC and AltConf.
Every once in a while, Mac OS X gains new features that require us to change code. It doesn't happen often. The last time was for retina displays.
First I explored Force Click on the Mac. Now it is on the web with javascript in Safari.
Note: This is outdated. See our update for Xcode 7
Faux Pas is a OS X app that analyzes your source code for possible bugs and stylistic issues (among many, many other things).
I spend all week programming at Metal Toad so you would think I'd want to spend my weekend doing anything but. Yet, instead of enjoying the...
In part two (part one) of a series on iOS automation, we'll discuss continuous deployment.
The goal is to create a project with SpriteBuilder and then not use the nice GUI and ccb files that it
In 1989 I sat down at an Apple II E to write my first bit of code in BASIC.
Many of our readers have asked for an update to the mobile device diagram. Rather than diagramming what handset makers are selling, I thought it...
Updated Oct 19, 2015: Added updates for OS X El Capitan. Updates highlighted in yellow.
Whenever a programmer and a designer get together they need to agree on a common language. That often involves mock-ups, aspect ratios, points,...
I’ve been using the Apple OSX suite of productivity tools (Safari, iCal, Mail) for as long as I’ve been using Macs (PowerBook G4 in ‘03).
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The latest version of the jQuery Lazy Load plu