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iOS Development

How to easily animate updates of a tableview in Swift

Currently I work on a side project that uses a lot of UITableViews for all the different settings within the app. Whenever you change the the datasource of your tableview you need to update it. Here I want to show … Read the rest

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Electronics Raspberry Pi

Connect AM2320 temperature and humidity sensor to Raspberry Pi

This year I wanted to grow a lot of vegetables in the garden behind our apartment. The last few years I already grewed tomatoes and cucumber on my balcony. Of course a garden is so much better to grow stuff … Read the rest

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iOS Development

Draw graphs and charts in Swift easily with CareKit

Did you ever want to use Swift to draw simple graphs and charts in your iOS app without using some 3rd party library? Also you did not want to reinvent the wheel with CoreGraphics? I thought that was not possible … Read the rest

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Raspberry Pi

Minimal setup of Raspberry Pi Zero W with ssh over wifi connection.

Update July, 2023:

Nowadays, I would recommend using the “Raspberry Pi Imager”. You can download it here: https://www.raspberrypi.com/software/. It’s much faster than doing all the manual work. Just make sure that you select as OS the minimal version without … Read the rest

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iOS Development

Fix crashing when opening projects in XCode 11.3

Today I had some problems with a project that I wanted to continue working on today. Yesterday everything went fine but today XCode crashed everytime I tried to open it 🙈

Luckily there is a fix, that I found in … Read the rest

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iOS Development

How to play sounds when Unit Tests in XCode finish with success or failure

Currently I work on a project that has a lot of tests that take some time to finish. Usually I switch to working on something else while the tests are running in the background. Sometimes I deep dive into the … Read the rest

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iOS Development

Customizing your app’s navigation bar titles buttons and background

The default navigation bar you get when implementing a UINavigationController does it’s job but often you want to customize it because it just does not look so fancy.

To customize the background of your UINavigationBar you set its backgroundImage property … Read the rest

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iOS Development

How to use new iOS 13 system fonts like New York

At the WWDC19 there was introduced a lot of font related cool stuff for iOS13. One great thing is the new serif system font NewYork which can be used in your apps.

To initialize a UIFont with this or any … Read the rest

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Wordpress

How to solve failing installation of wordpress plugins

I wanted to install a wordpress plugin via the wordpress panel and I failed due to missing FTP rights. An alert window appeared asking me for FTP or SFTP credentials. I pasted them in there but, this did not work.… Read the rest

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Uncategorized Wordpress

Hello, this is Michael! 😃

Today I started my first blog. 🥳

In this blog, I will collect stuff that I found interesting to share while becoming a better iOS developer.

FYI: If you want to install a wordpress blog on your webserver as well,

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