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Hound Supports Swift

Announcing Swift support for Hound.
Jake Craige
March 7, 2016
- Hound
- News
- Open Source
- iOS
Building iOS Interfaces: A Custom Button

It’s about time to apply what we’ve learnt so far to implement a custom button and introduce some new concepts along the way.
Reda Lemeden
March 3, 2016
- iOS
- Design
- Mobile
- Swift
Building a Ping Pong Scoreboard

How we built a scoreboard for our ping pong table as a hack day project.
Dan Barber
March 1, 2016
- Web
- Ruby
- JavaScript
- Hardware
- Hack Day
- Project
- Ping Pong
Markoff: A Free Markdown Previewer for OS X

We are happy to announce Markoff, a lightweight Markdown Previewer for OS X.
Reda Lemeden
February 29, 2016
- OS X
- Markdown
- App
- News
Send A Patch To Someone Using `git format-patch`

Use Git’s built-in functionality for sharing a patch without a centralized server.
Prem Sichanugrist
February 25, 2016
- Git
Brace Yourselves, Rails Upgrade is Coming

How to prepare your Rails application so you won’t get left out in the cold.
Prem Sichanugrist
February 23, 2016
- Ruby
- Rails
- Web
To gem, or not to gem

Writing software is an active, thoughtful practice. Choosing gems requires as much consideration as writing code.
Elle Meredith
February 19, 2016
- Rails
- Web
Building iOS Interfaces: Views

Views are the cornerstone of iOS app interfaces. Let’s take a look at what they are and how they work.
Reda Lemeden
February 3, 2016
- iOS
- Design
- Mobile
- Swift
Maintaining Open Source Projects: Versioning and Releasing

On release frequency and version numbers for your open source library.
Tute Costa
February 2, 2016
- News
- Open Source
- Books
Creating Custom Xcode Templates

Sometimes Xcode doesn’t work how you want, custom templates let you control how files are created.
Jake Craige
January 22, 2016
- iOS
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