I find the manner in which programmers vehemently defend and deride coding style preferences absolutely fascinating. I personally feel that dot syntax serves a worthwhile purpose. In fact, I have been refactoring old code to conform to this convention. In the end, I feel these types of debates speak to the health and growth of [...]
I’ve used/repurposed several open source projects for use in my code. If you’re not trying to use someone else’s code as much as possible, you’re not doing OOP. I won’t call this a series, but I would like to showcase some of the great code that is out there waiting to be used. All you [...]
A great opportunity for you to hone your iPhone Dev skills is coming up this fall. Voices That Matter: iPhone Developers Conference is a two day event that will be held in Boston on October 17-18. It will feature talks from some of the most talented and influential iPhone developers, authors, and experts. Speakers include: Bill [...]
If you are like me, you really appreciate those nice, neat classes that make your most tedious work a little more bearable. Billy Gray over at zetetic has done just that with his NSDate+Helper category. if allows you to completely forget about NSDateFormatter and easily format dates in just about any format you need. it [...]
Objective-C 2.0 properties are pretty useful. They not only save you time, but also help “automate” memory management on the iPhone. They save you from screwing up your accessors. Another benefit, is the orthogonal relationship with dot notation. Dot notation short hand makes it extremely quick to change the state of an ivar with minimal [...]
When you begin a new project, you always begin with an immense amount of passion. You work diligently, economically, and with sharp focus. Such ambition, however, can quickly subside after a few snags or if monotony begins to set in. Unlike those that work in a development shop with several employees, we may have no [...]
I sat down at the local Best Buy (unfortunately no local Apple Stores until I move back to Philly) and compared both the 15″ and 17″ MacBook Pros . I currently work on a 13″ MacBook, so the 15″ would definitely be a step up. Extra screen space is not just welcome, it is needed. [...]
If you have done any iPhone development, you are already intimately familiar with table views. They are an integral part of UIKit. They are highly flexible and customizable. However, making table views work smoothly with anything but a small, simple, static data set can be trying, to say the least. Many Cocoa developers have come [...]
If you want to run Clang from a GUI you can using the tool at this site: http://www.karppinen.fi/analysistool/ Not that the scan-build CLI is that intimidating, but if you have any problems getting reports (I just had an issue with a static library), it may help
Now that the 3G s is on its way out along with a new OS, iPhone developers have some new interesting challenges. You can be sure that all iPhones will be running OS 3.0, but we now have 5 devices to deal with, each with 5 different sets of capabilities. If you are like me [...]
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