I have a need to integrate my iOS development with TFS repository. The dev ops that only use Windows boxes need to be able to build and deploy iOS code to TestFlight and App store mainly accessing remotely a Mac Mini server.<p>My solution was to add some script steps to the scheme and a build script to each project that can be executed from a TFS task accessing the Mac Mini via ssh. I describe my solution in more detail on the url above. I'm wondering to hear other solutions to similar problems and suggestions to improve my solution. Thanks
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I'm really sorry for your loss. I experienced something similar when I lost my son 5 years ago. It can be very dark the place you are right now, but believe me, it will get better. I went back to work after 2 weeks and it was extremely hard. I couldn't do anything and I would go the the restroom to cry, because people around me were feeling uncomfortable with my grief. I found an online support group that really helped me. I was so depressed that I can't even leave the house and meet other people, so the online group was a good starting point. After two weeks of terrible work, my employer agreed with me that I couldn't go on and I took a leave for health reasons. At my job I had disability insurance and profound depression qualifies as disability. You should go see a psychiatrist to have the depression diagnosis in your records and to try some medication. If you are feeling too bad, please, check yourself at a hospital. In my case it took me over a year in disability to recover from my son's loss.
I'm not sure I understood your question. Push notifications have to be originated outside the device. If you want an app running on your device and sending notifications to the device itself, it will be just a regular local notification. If you want to receive notifications from events that will originated outside the device, like the case you mentioned, website downtime alert), some application running running outside the device can use a service like Urban Airship, Amazon AWS, Parse.com and some others. These providers have an API that your app, running on a server somewhere, can use to send push notifications to your iOS device. You would need an app on your device the subscribes to these messages and the app could be launched by the remote notification when the user taps on it. If you are using one of these push notification service providers, your iOS app would have to be linked with their SDK. In iOS, each app that can receive remote push notifications is a topic and the originator of the push notification has to address the notification to a topic/device combination.
I don't think so. Because I might be good at doing the task, but not as good as hiring and managing someone else doing the task and if the quality of the job done by a third party is questionable, you won't be able to raise your price or even selling to the same customer anymore. I don't think it is a black and white decision. Instead I decide to hire someone to do the tasks I can't do, either because of lack of skills or lack of time/resources.
I had the oddest thing happening with me. As soon as I finished reading this story on Tuesday, a co-worker that had started on Monday quit without saying a word to us.
I had a 1 day coworker too. I think the reason he quit was "He missed working from home"... but no where in the interview process would he have been told it was anything but 100% work from office.
But if you know after a few hours that a job is really crappy - hey may as well make it fast. Interviews can never tell you 100% of the story, a few hours at your desk usually can.
