Dave DeLong

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I'm Dave, and I love Objective-C.

My Projects:

DDMathParser - a library for parsing NSString objects as mathematical expressions and evaluating them
CHCSVParser - a library for reading and writing CSV files
DDUnitConverter - a simple library for converting between units
StackKit - a framework for using the StackExchange API.

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My answers and opinions expressed here are my own and do not represent my employer's views in any way.

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Feb 29	comment	Is there a meta api? +1 I think this is what I was remembering. Thanks!
Feb 21	comment	Sorting the event stream Hm, I seem to have misinterpreted the results of the stream. I'll go play with it and then come back. Thanks for taking the time to explain this.
Feb 18	comment	StackKit: an API framework for Cocoa FYI, I've been putting a lot of work recently into the 2.0 branch.
Feb 13	comment	Events: field request Excellent! Thank you for the clarification.
Feb 12	comment	Events: field request @Jonathan. Thanks; in that light, I've updated my question :)
Feb 12	comment	Events: field request @Jonathan. I thought `event_id` was an identifier for the event itself, and not the thing to which the event refers
Jan 10	comment	API Inconsistencies Thanks for the updates to `Tags` and `inname` usage. What about the values passed to the `sort` parameter?
Jan 5	comment	API Inconsistencies Badge and User have a many-to-many relationship. Proper decomposition mandates that the way to model that correctly with a -to-one relationship on one side (which is what JSON can handle) is with another object, the Awarded Badge. I understand that text searching is expensive. It's just frustrating to think "ok, this had `inname`, that had `inname`, this should to. Wait, it doesn't? wtf?".
Jan 5	comment	API Inconsistencies (Comments in order) I'm willing to let things like `hot`, `week`, and `month` slide as sort values on questions, because there's no way for clients to duplicate the algorithm used to determine the "hotness" of a question. But I maintain that consuming the API is not the same thing as using the site. The API is for us developers, and thus it should be consistent. If I'm sorting by the score of a question, then don't call it `votes`, call it `score`. If I'm sorting by when an object was creation, don't call it `creation`, call it `creation_date`. The sort key should match the object field.
Jan 5	comment	API Inconsistencies @Jonathan. good point on `award_count`, but I definitely think `total_award_count` would be a better name. Making the semantic meaning of a field dependent on the context is a bad idea. Badges, IMO, shouldn't contain any user-specific information, because there's nothing inherent about a badge that has to do with a User.
Jan 4	comment	Documentation sorted by return type Hooray for `status-planned`!!!
Jan 4	comment	filter=total is returning 0? Excellent, thank you! :)
Jan 2	comment	Documentation sorted by return type And to emphasize how much I think this should be done, I will gladly put up the maximum bounty if people need convincing.
Dec 22	comment	StackKit: an API framework for Cocoa Not actively, no. I've been thinking about resurrecting it for the 2.0 SDK, however. We'll see...
Feb 22	comment	StackKit: an API framework for Cocoa FYI, this is now in place on the development branch. You can request the associated accounts of a user via the `SKSiteManager` object.
Feb 20	comment	Any guarantees on JSON string encoding? Awesome, thanks. Just making sure. :)
Feb 16	comment	Enumerated types documentation in 1.1 API Hooray! Thank you! :D
Feb 15	comment	StackKit: an API framework for Cocoa technically the "coredata" branch is experimental. Once I get it to a point where I'm mostly satisfied with it, I'll merge it in to "master". However, it should be stable. If you find issues with it, be sure to let me know.
Feb 15	comment	StackKit: an API framework for Cocoa glad to hear it! to contribute changes, you can fork the repository on github, make your changes, and send me a pull request. Also, the requests are executed on the `SKSite` in the same way that `NSFetchRequests` are executed on an `NSManagedObjectContext`.
Feb 12	comment	Provide a method to search for sites +1 I really don't see the benefit of pagination on the `/sites` results. I'm never going to want only some of the sites; I want all or nothing.