Submitted by matt_eaton
on Sat, 04/29/2017 - 04:46 PM
This year my employer, LexTech Global Services, offered to sponsor my trip to WWDC 2017 if I was lucky enough to win a ticket in the lottery - and I did! I am very lucky to have received such a generous gesture on behalf of LexTech and it is very exciting from a technology perspective to be attending my first ever WWDC live and in person for many different reasons.
Submitted by matt_eaton
on Sun, 04/23/2017 - 12:57 PM
Recently, I was working on some Python code where I needed to keep track of an ordered list of functions to where I could call these functions again at any given time based upon a numeric index. Think of this situation like a list keeping track of an object by index, but instead, I wanted to keep track of a functions by index. My first thought was to try and create some sort of generic object that could manage all of these functions and the specific ordering that I needed.
Submitted by matt_eaton
on Mon, 04/03/2017 - 02:45 AM
How and why Swift started at Apple is still a bit of a mystery to the outside world and has been the focal point of many rumors and speculation over the years. If I had to pick one place where there is solid evidence of Swift’s roots at Apple, it would have to be with Chris Lattner. Chris Lattner is the internal founder of the Swift language at Apple, with a claim from Lattner on his personal website that the language dates back to 2010 internally at Apple.
Submitted by matt_eaton
on Sat, 03/04/2017 - 08:33 PM
Designing server architecture to support multiple applications can be a very tricky and intimidating task to take on. So many different things need to be considered when designing your first initial implementation that often times engineers will find themselves over engineering an achitecture all at once instead of building for their immediate needs and planning to scale over a period of time.
Submitted by matt_eaton
on Sun, 02/19/2017 - 03:18 AM
I was recently asked in a computational project to generate prime numbers to be used in public key hashing routines. The idea was that I needed to write an algorithm that finds prime numbers between a specific range and then those prime numbers would be randomly assigned to a list and then multiplied together in sequence to produce large complex numbers that would then, in turn, be concatenated together to form variations of public keys.
Submitted by matt_eaton
on Sun, 10/30/2016 - 03:57 AM
A topic that I have been hearing a lot about lately is the MVVM design pattern. MVVM stands for Mode-View View Model and is intended to solve some of the concerns that have resulted from using the MVC design pattern - specifically in the context of iOS. While MVVM is certainly not an iOS specific design pattern, I did conduct some further research into MVVM using iOS as my research platform because I I wanted to try and figure out if MVVM could be a design pattern that fixes some of the issues that I have run into when developing large MVC iOS applications.