Author: Mark Brownsword

I've been working as an enterprise developer for more than 15 years, always using .NET platform and recently building for iOS with Swift. My degree is in Business Studies, majoring in information systems, where I learnt the fundamentals of software engineering for building systems for business.

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Animating Hello Cocoa!

October 8, 2012October 10, 2012 Mark BrownswordLeave a comment

From my early days of software development I've had a passion for layout and building the harness that loads views…

More Hello Cocoa!

August 29, 2012September 3, 2012 Mark BrownswordLeave a comment

This is the second iteration of a Hello World Application in Cocoa, enhanced with a sidebar typical of many Mac…

Hello, Cocoa!

May 10, 2012August 30, 2012 Mark BrownswordLeave a comment

My approach to learning a new programming language involves reading and hands on practice, combined with a clear objective of…

Thank God the French exist

April 22, 2012September 9, 2012 Mark BrownswordLeave a comment

For the past decade I have been bombarded with the advice that web technology (HTML, CSS & Javascript) is the…

Evaluating OS X Lion

January 6, 2012 Mark Brownsword1 Comment

My Summer challenge has been to evaluate OS X Lion as a computing platform, from the perspective of both a…