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Good Thinking – Good Products
Apr 9th
Quality and Efficiency
The Toyota Way has two main pillars: continuous improvement and respect for people. Respect is necessary to work with people. By „people“ we mean employees, supply partners, and customers. … We don’t mean just the end customer; on the assembly line the person at the next workstation is also your customer. That leads to teamwork. If you adopt that principle, you’ll also keep analyzing what you do in order to see if you’re doing things perfectly, so you’re not troubling your customer. That nurtures your ability to identify problems, and if you closely observe things, it will lead More >
Unit test Your Cocoa Application with GHUnit
Mar 21st
In the last years I have good experiences with Unit testing. It gives you more safety that your software meets your behavioral requirements. So I searched for some frameworks to make tests for my Cocoa application. I found GHUnit. A preoject started by Gabriel Handford. The source is available on GitHub.
Recomened Books for learning Objective-C and Cocoa
Mar 20th
Since some time I keep busy with learning Objective-C to program on my Mac. There are several good resources in the web. But I like to read books. So I find a very good book to learn the concepts ob Objective-C. It’s Programming in Objective-C from Stephen G. Kocham. If you go further with programming on a Mac you will reach something called Cocoa (pronounced [ko:ko:]). It’s some thing like a rich framework (in deed there are several) which makes it easy to you to program nice (desktop) applications. This is the hardest part because Cocoa covers a very large and powerful API. More >
Nice Objective-C 2.0 Tutorial
Mar 19th
Scott Stevenson posted a nice tutorial about new Features in Objective-C 2.0 in Mac OS: A Quick Objective-C 2.0 Tutorial and A Quick Objective-C 2.0 Tutorial: Part II.
Failure Modes in Scrum
Mar 18th
Nice speak from Jens Østergaard about failure modes in Scrum. What failures can happen and how to fix them.