Tag: debugging

• August 23, 2017

  This Old App: Another Bug, Another Day

  

  One of the biggest hazards of indie developers is getting full of themselves. You’ll do things that you think are right or you found on StackOverflow from some other indie developer the looks like good code. Then someone comes along and tells you otherwise. The story so far: A few months ago, Apple removed my app […]
• August 7, 2017

  This Old App: There is Always One More Bug

  

  A few months ago, Apple removed my app Interval RunCalc from the App Store for being too old and not updated. In this series of articles I’ll document what I did on rebuilding and improving the app. Last time, I got the app working. It calculated intervals and used those for bigger measurements. I loaded the app on […]
• June 13, 2016

  How to Debug Programs and Life

  

  For several reasons related to WWDC2016, I’m breaking up the sequence I’m doing on XML. We’ll continue that next week, but this week I’m giving you the article I wrote from this week’s Slice Of App Pie podcast on debugging. I’ve had several questions on the issue. this is the first of several responses. Look […]
• April 22, 2014

  SlippyFlippy 1.1: The Bug Hunt

  

  Since my last post I got my first one-star review of SlippyFlippyPenguin. The Hard Mode bug  did it. Someone else can’t start the game in hard mode. In my last entry, I set up  a timer to fix what I thought is a user-related problem with the game. In the process, I found the real bug. […]