Using RubyMotion With Xcode's Interface Builder

Executive Summary

RubyMotion is a Mac application that lets developers write iOS apps in Ruby. It’s possible to create the user interface for the app entirely within RubyMotion or with a Ruby gem like Teacup. But what about devs who prefer Interface Builder?

This article will show how to use Xcode’s Interface Builder to create a basic UI for a RubyMotion application.

Clear Innovation

Some organizations are innovative, while others are just lucky. How can you tell the difference? I would submit that longevity is a great divider between true innovators and those who are just lucky. An organization that generates new ideas time after time breaks the statistical rules that define luck. These are the organizations worthy of study.

Theodore Roosevelt's Arena

This is one of my favorite quotes from TR. Pardon the bias toward the male gender. This was written in the early 1900s.

It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done better.

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

~Theodore Roosevelt

10,000 Hours of Practice

In the book Outliers, author Malcolm Gladwell observes that it takes roughly ten thousand hours of practice to achieve mastery in a field. How does Gladwell arrive at this conclusion? And, if the conclusion is true, how can we leverage this idea to achieve greatness in our professions?

Gladwell studied the lives of extremely successful people to find out how they achieved success. This article will review a few examples from Gladwell’s research, and conclude with some thoughts for moving forward.

Four Steps. Five Minutes.

Nine out of ten startups fail in the first year. Why? More important, what can we do to improve the odds? Entrepreneur Steve Blank might have an answer, expressed in his book The Four Steps to the Epiphany. Key points from the book are summarized in this 5-minute video.