Fotogroep Waalre app goes open source
The Swift source code of the Fotogroep Waalre app is now in a GitHub repository. This allows software developers who are interested in photography to join in.
The Swift source code of the Fotogroep Waalre app is now in a GitHub repository. This allows software developers who are interested in photography to join in.
Standard text localization When you create apps for the Apple ecosystem, you may need to support multiple languages. This is a key part of what is known as localization. It comes down to creating an English version of text strings – say the label of a “Submit” button -, and providing translations of “Submit” to…
The Fotogroep Waalre app (called “Photo Club Waalre” in English) has a new version on the Apple App Store. Starting with v2.1.0 the app’s source code is now also available on a public GitHub repository. This was a matter of conforming to GitHub conventions (like having a markdown readme file). But it took quite some…
Github contributors have a page with a well-known graphic showing how active they were in, for example, the last 12 months. The horizontal axis is weeks, the vertical axis is within the week (Sunday is the top row). The intensity shows how many “contributions” they made to any public repository on Github. The color scales…
The iOS app formerly-known-as Photo Club Waalre (and Photogroep Waalre) has been renamed to Photo Club Hub. This applies to the code repository on Github, and to version 2.4.0 and above on Apple’s App Store. The name change emphasizes that the app is no longer tied to any single photo club. Since version 2.0 the…
I started work on a MacOS app that is a companion to the Photo Club Hub app for iOS. It generates static web pages with members of photo clubs. Both apps read the same JSON data. See the README on Github.
Git, Linus Torvald’s version control system, is pretty unescapable nowadays. I methodically installed Git in a basic Xcode Swift project, along with Git-Crypt. The latter allows you to encrypt certain of the files that you published using Git. Publishing source code while encrypting a file or two may sound like a strange combination. But it…