When accessing a Core Data database, you might notice that the timestamp is not exactly a unix epoch timestamp but an Apple specific one instead. In this post, I explain the difference and how to convert that into the popular Unix timestamp that we all love.

Python is rich with powerful features and expressive syntax. One of my favorites is decorators. In the context of design patterns, decorators dynamically alter the functionality of a function, method or class without having to directly use subclasses. This is ideal when you need to extend the functionality of functions ...

When working with web applications you might run into the need to fetch remote content via Ajax where that content isn't necessarily JSON, such as HTML or config file, or even request JSON content from a remote server that doesn't support JSONP. This is when setting up a ...