Getting Started with RubyMotion Book
I'm happy to announce I've written and released my first published book. I've been published in 2600 Hacker Quarterly twice, and this lovely micro-book adds another great notch of my written works!...
View ArticleA Clear Win of AngularJS over jQuery Example
If you're like me, you love math, but you always want a real world experience to make it concrete. The days of using jQuery for all your javascript needs are starting to show age and people are...
View ArticleDeveloping for Ruby on Rails in the Cloud
So you want to develop from anywhere...Many of us want to have a persistent development environment as we move around from machine to machine (or device) or location to location. In my opinion the best...
View ArticleImplementing Social Framework Facebook and Twitter with RubyMotion
Since iOS 6, there has been a new way to implement Social sharing in your apps. This blog post shows you how to move away from the old TWTweetComposeViewController and towards the new...
View ArticleCreating RubyMotion 2.0 Templates
As you know we're Ruby enthusiasts. Along with the territory is a good healthy dose of love for RubyMotion. I guess if it's not obvious from our constant blog posts on this matter, or that we have...
View ArticleMotion Meetup
Are you a fan of Mobile development?Are you a fan of iOS and OSX development, or Ruby? Are you interested in learning more?Iconoclast Labs is happy to host the first ever Motion Meetup, where we cover...
View ArticleIntroducing motion-rubberstamp.
It's been a while since I've blogged anything, but today I'd like to announce my new gem for RubyMotion, motion-rubberstamp. In short, this gem adds a few new rake tasks to your RubyMotion project that...
View ArticleMotion-Awesome: Amazing Icons In Your App
No longer do you have to re-create your commonly defined icon to make it royalty free, and then resource mash it into place so you can change your mind and start the process all over again. Icons are...
View ArticleEasy Crowdsourcing with Mechanical Turk
Soylent Green is PEOPLE! OK... so? The Mechanical Turk is people, too! You might enjoy this blog post if:You have no idea what the Mechanical Turk is. You have some tedious data manipulation,...
View ArticleConversation Stoppers - Flavorful Language, Tasteless App
The speed we were able to write Conversation Stoppers was great. The app is purely a novelty idea, and garners a good laugh amongst adults. The real magic is that we were able to completely finish...
View ArticleRubyMotion Template
As you may have noticed, we've been busy at Iconoclast Labs. But we've got our goals outlined, and we're back in business. So we're here to show you our latest open source project, our RubyMotion...
View ArticleInvading Windows - Simplifying Legacy Code With Rails - Part 2
Now that you've read Part 1, and you know how to connect to SQL Server with Rails, it's time for Part 2. This is where we dig down and finally use Rails to clean up those disgusting problems we listed...
View ArticleInvading Windows - Simplifying Legacy Code With Rails - Part 1
There's a whole lot of horrible .NET code out there. Hell, I put some out there myself. I originally learned web programming by writing classic ASP and actually upgraded by learning PHP. Just...
View ArticleFairly Funding Startups - Slicing Pie Book Review
Why I am reviewing Slicing PieIf you've ever had the pleasure of being in a startup for a company, you've probably ran into the old issue of balancing work, risk, and profit. My first ever company...
View ArticleIntegrating Stripe Payments Into a Rails Site
Payment Processing is HardPayment processing isn't NP-Complete hard, but if you were trying to build everything yourself from scratch, let's call it "the bar down the street from the same ballpark"....
View ArticleUpgrading to Rails 4 - Parameters Security Tour
Are you ready for Strong Parameters in Rails 4? In this blog post, we're taking a look at what's going to change for controller parameters from Rails 3 to Rails 4, along with an opinionated dose of...
View ArticleIcon Haiku - Rails Rumble 2012
The Battle is CompleteThey say a developer is an organism that can convert caffeine into code, and nothing is more true after this weekend's bout in the Rails Rumble.The quick and dirty of the whole...
View ArticleIconoclast Labs and Rails Rumble
For you Ruby on Rails enthusiasts, there's really no reason not to take a weekend to try and flex your RoR acumen in fierce and fast-paced competition. Practicing what we preach, Iconoclast Labs will...
View ArticleiPhone Splash Screen with RubyMotion
We're all familiar with what a splash screen is, it's that aesthetic but pointless moment of zen for the app you love, and the annoying billboard of spam you wish you didn't need to wait for for lesser...
View ArticleIconoclast Labs Goes to RubyConf Again!
It's official! We're happy to announce that a tradition as old as this company (i.e. stretching the definition of "tradition") will continue as we pack up and head to Denver, for RubyConf 2012. We're...
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