[QuickTips] Git Ignore....

This is going to be a blazing fast tip. We all have had problems with .gitignore files not being properly setup or not being the way we wanted them to be.

Along with that comes the fact that we maintain lots of notes about each technology we use to determine how the file should be filled.

But then there is those kind-hearted souls who decided to give us a boost

First I wanted to reference the github repository named gitignore containing templates like Objective-C.gitignore and VisualStudio.gitignore and many more.

Last but not least is the site that remembers Google, just a search field and a click of distance to access lots of .gitignore templates: gitignore.io.

That's it for now, enjoy a new world without the troubles of those lovely files.

Quick Tips - IOS Dev - Documentation Shortcut

This tip was given me by @marcolindoso, one of my co-workers and friend at Parsec Digital.

Most of the times Apple documentation is very useful but we have to copy the code and go to google or the Apple site, so instead of doing this we can use xcode sdk docs. Ok nice idea but the shortcut its too dificult to remember or even to guess if you don't look for it in preferences.

So let's change this:
With XCode opened enter in Preferences (Type: command + ,)
Open key bindings and type "Documentation" in the search field, now you gonna see a list and in that list is the key binding "Search Documentation for Selected Text", select it and type enter
When the key binding open for editing input command + D

Done, now you have easy to remember shortcut for documentation access, to use it put your cursor over any piece of apple documented code and use the shortcut.

Happy coding....

Quick Tip - IOS DEV - UIColor

This is a good fast tip for ios newbies (like me)....I was trying to use UIColor to create a color with RGB values like this:

But this natural approach is wrong and if you read Apple class reference here (as I did) you probably will realize that each color must be between 0 and 1....what a damn confusion uh Apple...

For those that didn't realize it before just divide it by 255 and everything goes well:

That's it folks!!!