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Build Docker images with GitLab CI on AWS ECR

by | Feb 12, 2019 | Code

GitLab CI is a great way to automate testing, building and deploying of almost any application. Recently we came across the requirement to setup a repository with several definitions of Docker container images. For sure we wanted to use GitLab CI to also automate the...

Action Cable on specific page within Ruby on Rails

by | Aug 19, 2017 | Code

Using page specific action cable functionality within ruby on rails comes in very handy sometimes. It allows you to target given functionality to specific pages and controllers. Furthermore, it reduces the number of open web sockets, which again reduces your server...

Set default values for has_one association

by | Feb 17, 2015 | Code

Sometimes you simply want to set some default values for an associated model within ActiveRecord without thinking too much of creating possible side effects when overriding methods like build_association or add model callbacks. The following example demonstrates the...

5 easy steps to integrate HealthKit

by | Nov 8, 2014 | Code, Process

Whether you want to create a new HealthKit-enabled app or update your existing fitness or health app, this tutorial shows you how to easily integrate the new HealthKit API. This allows you to use all benefits of the iOS Health app, including storing your health and...

Creating iOS UITableViewCell animations

by | Nov 4, 2014 | Code

Today I gonna show you how you can easily animate your UITableViewCells  with UIKit  and QuartzCore out of the box functionality. This allows you to create smooth animation during state changes like adding or deleting some rows or sections of your table view....

Sprite flip animation with Cocos2D 3.1

by | Oct 28, 2014 | Code

After removing CCActionOrbitCamera from the Cocos2D framework our flip animation within on of our games did no longer work. We used it to simply flip cards with a nice visual effect. After searching for another approach for a while, we thankfully found something easy...

Porting Cocos2D game to OSX using SpriteBuilder

by | Sep 17, 2014 | Code, Process

So you finished and polished your game for iOS by using Cocos2D and SpriteBuilder? Wouldn’t it be nice to publish your game on the Mac AppStore too? These tools and frameworks make it really simple to accomplish this project successfully. However, there are some...

Pause scene with cocos2d an SpriteBuilder

by | Aug 20, 2014 | Code, Process

Often games need something like a pause scene to pause the current game and to provide further options like quitting or restarting the current game. So as you may think this isn’t a big deal, right? Well the simples approach may be the following: 1) Create the...