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Getting Started with LevelDB

Getting Started with LevelDB

LevelDB local database theory, querying and C++ bindings explained with detailed examples for iOS Objective-C and a quick overview for scripting.

2013

Stories

Pinned

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Touchgram

Purrticles and a Belated BuildInPublic

A product design (hurried) story

Sep 13

Screenshot of the XCode Particle Editor settings showing a complex dialog with many controls

Sep 13

Pinned

Andy Dent
in
Touchgram

How Apple broke apps on old phones

Blindsided by Bitcode. Another Apple bug tale, this one almost un-testable, and a bit of a lesson on privacy.

Feb 1, 2022

Four phones representing different OS versions, with crosses and ticks to indicate only iOS15 OK.

Feb 1, 2022

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Sopwith Software Tales

A Reassuring Murmur

How a debugging “comment” became a user feature

10h ago

A Reassuring Murmur

10h ago

Andy Dent
in
Sopwith Software Tales

Boxing up Best Practices

Sysadmin Snippets — a tale of tapes and tangled good intentions.

1d ago

9-track backup tape

1d ago

Andy Dent
in
Sopwith Software Tales

Sysadmin Snippets — Cable Tales 1

Tangles and a kind of debugging

Nov 13

Picture of DB25 serial cable, black with connectors at each end with 25 pins in two rows

Nov 13

Andy Dent
in
Sopwith Software Tales

Sysadmin snippets — Intro

Experiences from when I was not just a developer

Nov 13

Sysadmin snippets — Intro

Nov 13

Andy Dent
in
Sopwith Software Tales

Scientists and Sticky Notes

My useful analogy for XML data, and how it breaks.

Nov 13

Scientists and Sticky Notes

Nov 13

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in
Sopwith Software Tales

Homework helper vs lecturer

Back around 1988 I was mostly working as a VAX mainframe sysadmin, at Griffin Coal Mining.

Nov 9

Grids showing memory layouts as intended by lecturer versus the reality of the HP compiler inserting an alignment byte.

Nov 9

Andy Dent
in
Sopwith Software Tales

It didn’t add up!

A savvy workman knows that sometimes you DO blame the tool

Nov 8

Photo of a Burroughs B20 workstation, an old computer on a desk with green display on left and main unit in front with clipboard built in and holding paper notes. Some computer manuals are to the right of the keyboard.

Nov 8

Andy Dent
in
Sopwith Software Tales

My first professional bug

A tale of lost innocence

Nov 6

Picture of a Durango early desktop computer with built-in printer, keyboard and monitor off to one side.

Nov 6

Andy Dent

Andy Dent

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Touchgram interactive messaging Founder looking for art, sound & advertising partners. GrandDad. Developer, designer & Martial artist 40+yrs. Australian born UK

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