Day 36

Worked on extracting some of my code into a new project which is turning into a nice diversion. Mostly learning, not a ton of code.

Day 37

I spent a bit of extra time enjoying my little diversion. It’s requiring me to dig into objective-c and cocoa a bit more, understanding how dates are handled and understanding more about the common date formats. I’m building a category for NSDate to handle conversion of strings to dates for the common date formats; I plan on putting it on GitHub once it’s ready for my own use?

Why go through the trouble of putting something on GitHub?

  1. I found that I kept coming back to this section of code and needing it to be more robust.
  2. Making something “good enough to show” others makes you do it right (or at least what your interpretation of right is).
  3. I’ve been helped by others who’ve shared their great libraries as open source.
  4. I couldn’t find what I needed already (though I was inspired by something coming close).

Anyhow, it should be “good enough to show” soon.