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Is developing software only good (or excellent) knowledge of a programming language? Of course not. There are many things, but one of the most important is to know patterns. It might be not obvious when you develop elementary apps at the beginning of your journey, but it becomes necessary when developing decent packages for professional
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To use the correct tools to implement a task is so important. When playing with IoT applications, you will inevitably touch: MQTT, for handling easily the messaging, InfluxDB database, to store the data in a timestamped fashion (time-series arrays), and Grafana, to visualise the data This is good, but do you mean that I need
Test-Driven Development (TDD) is a popular approach in developing code bases and there is a good reason for that. There are many books that explain the way and the advantages of adopting an approach like that. In today’s post, I’m not going to explain that again. An amazing book that I can suggest is the
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This content has 9 years. Please, read this page keeping its age in your mind.The radiation mapping application has been developed using the directions of the experienced Interface Analysis Centre (IAC) researchers. It is a very specific application and in order to be useful and a real tool in the hands of the user, it
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This content has 9 years. Please, read this page keeping its age in your mind.The radiation mapping application was developed based on the iPhone 5 screen dimensions. Consequently, the layout and the size of the elements are adapted to this device. The minimum supported iOS version is the 7th. The implemented application consists of three
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This content has 9 years. Please, read this page keeping its age in your mind.This mobile application constitutes an important part of this project since it is directly related to the radiation mapping visualisation. Up until now the radiation mapping is a procedure which is conducted offline. To illustrate, the operator could carry a hand
This content has 9 years. Please, read this page keeping its age in your mind.The implementation of the application was based on three UIViewControllers embedded in navigation controllers (fig.1). The navigation between the screens was accomplished using segues. In the projects’ workspace, three external libraries have been imported, namely: SocketRocket RBManager MKMapView As long as
This content has 9 years. Please, read this page keeping its age in your mind.One of the popular and traditional methods of tele-operating a quad copter is using a Remote Control (RC). It is a well-established and tested method, which has its origin before the era of the UAV. Nowadays, advanced UAVs are equipped with
This content has 10 years. Please, read this page keeping its age in your mind.There are some times that you want to have two targets from a cell. One solution is to navigate to different UIViewController when you tap in the UITableViewCell and to a different when you tap to its detail disclosure button. I’m
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This content has 12 years. Please, read this page keeping its age in your mind.OK, the case is that in your application take advantage of the appearance proxy (iOS 5) for presenting a custom UI for your app. In AppDelegate.m you have and everything is working fine until??? Until the moment that you decide that
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