For all you Vi using, Emacs haters out there, I will fight you!

I was just reading this article posted on CNET news Apple’s tablet: It’s all about developers and thought to myself, it’s a great day to be a software developer.  This quote from the article got me exceptionally excited.

“Never have developers mattered more. As Apple readies its tablet announcement party for later Wednesday morning, the big question remaining is whether developers will join, or whether they’ll join Google’s Android and Chrome initiatives.”

With the success of the Apple App Store, it seems that everyone is wanting  a piece of the pie.

Amazon is now looking to throw their hat into the ring and is releasing their own dev kit for their ever so popular Kindle.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/?ie=UTF8&docId=1000476231

It appears that big name game developers Electronic Arts is also getting involved (WTH?!?!)

This just seems like it will be an epic fail.  Who really wants to play video games on their Kindle?  Maybe they can port Kirby’s Dreamland from the original Game Boy .

When in XCode on a MacBook Pro, doing a 3-finger swipe up will switch between the .h and .m files.

⌘-option-up will do the same thing

Productivity++

Ok, so this should seem obvious and if I am insulting your intelligence by stating it, I am sorry. One of the main reasons I want to discuss this is, I was asked this exact question in a job interview for Lockheed Martin.

So, I though I’d start this series called Programming Tip Of The Day to write about useful things I come across in programming. Both to educate my readers and as a personal archive of ideas and tips.

I will kick it off today with a quick rant about the ternary operator. I <3 the ternary operator. It’s quick, efficient and saves a lot of ugly code.

99% of students that were in my CS degree program

Image taken from abtrusegoose

The publishing that I’m writing the book for is having a huge Friday the 13th sale. They are offering a $13 discount on all of their books. For those of you who don’t know, Manning publishes all of the “In Action” books.