Author Archives: Scott Densmore

About Scott Densmore

A transplant from Seattle to Florida trying to bring some community love to the sunshine state. And don't call me a hippie.

Build Numbers in Xcode

Posted on August 9, 2011 by Scott Densmore

Working on a Mac / iOS projects, I have been trying to come up with an easy way to bump versions when it goes out the door for testing or production. Mostly I have been working it out manually, yet … Continue reading →

Posted in Apple, Cocoa, iOS, Xcode | 2 Comments

An Agile Approach to Building a Mac Application

Posted on July 19, 2011 by Scott Densmore

I have written quite a bit of articles on iOS and Mac applications using agile techniques (unit testing, continuous integration, etc) and in this post, I am going to put it all together. We will go through how to setup … Continue reading →

Posted in Apple, iOS, iPhone, Xcode | 4 Comments

Mac and iOS Custom UI Component Database

Posted on June 1, 2011 by Scott Densmore

After yesterdays post on my Dev Toolbox on the Mac I realized I left out a couple of good things: Custom UI Component Database for iOS and Mac OS X Windows Azure Toolkit I have been playing around with the … Continue reading →

Posted in Apple, Cocoa, iOS, iPhone, Xcode | 15 Comments

Mac and iOS Development Toolbox

Posted on May 30, 2011 by Scott Densmore

I have been building for the Mac and iOS for the last couple of years and the list of tools I have ben using has been growing (and shrinking).  There is a great development community around the Mac / iOS. … Continue reading →

Posted in Apple, Cocoa, iOS, OSS, Xcode | 11 Comments

Unit Test Logging for Builds with Xcode 4 and Team City

Posted on April 5, 2011 by Scott Densmore

One of the things I wanted to do after getting comfortable with the iOS/Mac platform(s) was trying to take my “agile” ways to the platforms (for this post specifically testing). I started learning all this in the Xcode 3 days. … Continue reading →

Posted in Apple, iOS, Xcode | 1 Comment

Debugging Unit Tests for the iPhone/iPad

Posted on July 24, 2010 by Scott Densmore

Update 8/17/2010 I changed the Environment Variable arguments to make it easier and remove the unnecessary quotes around the directories. I now just use the SDK_ROOT for both DYLD_FRAMEWORK_PATH and DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH variables. I have been working my way through a … Continue reading →

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There can be only One RoleEntryPoint

Posted on June 7, 2010 by Scott Densmore

Last week we were finalizing the production of Windows Azure Architecture Guidance Part 1, when we came across a problem with the code. We had a few machines that were failing when trying to start the WebRole for the project. … Continue reading →

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MonoTouch Comparison with Apple Tools

Posted on October 20, 2009 by Scott Densmore

I have been playing around with MonoTouch trying to figure out if I liked the new approach to building Cocoa Touch apps. I decided to take a couple of the samples built using MonoTouch and build them for the Cocoa … Continue reading →

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Orlando .NET User Group Talk – 12 Practices to be a Better Developer

Posted on September 24, 2009 by Scott Densmore

Last week I gave a talk at the Orlando .NET User Group on Practical Software Craftsmanship – 12 Practices to be a Better Developer. Most of these 12 are just things I have learned over my years of development. I … Continue reading →

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Singletons Are Evil Part 2

Posted on August 14, 2009 by Scott Densmore

A while back I wrote a post about why singletons are evil. I still agree with that statement, yet after my comment on twitter today, I think I need to show how you can solve this problem differently. The first … Continue reading →

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