Phil Mills (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
philkmills) wrote2012-01-11 05:49 pm
philkmills) wrote2012-01-11 05:49 pm
Risk Analysis
The main part of today's programming adventure was testing various ways of creating a custom 'skin' for an iOS application. This is connected to my previous post about things that the development kit doesn't want to let a developer do...but it's also something that's done repeatedly. The trick is not so much in finding a way as in finding a way that is less likely to break than others.
The nice thing about my current choice is that, if it breaks because of changes in a future iOS release, the failure will almost certainly show up as a user interface that looks like the non-customized one. Some of the other candidates could have failed in ways that affected functionality.
Since Dreamwidth now has the ability to send a user's reading list to a client in a similar format to LJ's friends list, I've started fixing the 'bug' related to that not being shown for a DW account.
The nice thing about my current choice is that, if it breaks because of changes in a future iOS release, the failure will almost certainly show up as a user interface that looks like the non-customized one. Some of the other candidates could have failed in ways that affected functionality.
Since Dreamwidth now has the ability to send a user's reading list to a client in a similar format to LJ's friends list, I've started fixing the 'bug' related to that not being shown for a DW account.