December 2014

Transient Properties of the Realm

By Tim Bugai

Realm is a good alternative to CoreData for your iOS apps. Setting up properties to be stored in the database is as simple as defining them in a model. But what about those properties that you don’t want persisted?

Quickly Test Slow Uploads

By Daniel Morrison

How do you test a slow file upload? Force it to be slow.

A Not-So-Bad-Reminder to Blog More

By Spencer Toth

Reminding and motivating your team to write blog posts can be hard. Constantly nagging them won’t help much either. With a slightly more constructive approach, we hope to increase our blog posting to once per week by scheduling months in advance and sending a simple reminder if we get off track using this quick and automated “Recipe.”