If you’re writing a performance-focused app, it’s nice to be able to time how long various pieces of code take to execute. Below is the class I use (called StopWatch) and a really simple example of how I use it.
Something I noticed as a general trend with modern technology (especially in mobile development) is a trend away from shiny, glossy UI elements like icons and buttons to a more flat, conservative style.
Here’s a really interesting discussion I found about the subject on the UX stackexchange site http://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/35576/what-explains-the-current-shift-from-glossy-uis-to-matte-uis
I recently came across a neat piece of software that maps out your mouse movements and creates artwork out of them. Check out the image below - it’s a graph of my mouse movements on my left monitor over a 9 - 5 working day. Click to see full resolution.
Imagine a scenario where you have a git repo with 2 branches; master, the production-ready branch and dev, the branch where all the development occurs.
Now imagine that you accidentally made a commit on master, when really it should have been on dev. If you have not yet pushed to a remote repository (like Github), you can undo that commit using git reset like so:
