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 [...]
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
I’m not at WWDC this year, but in light of the announcements, I figured I would chime in on a few things. I’ll first get my AT&T hatred out of the way. This isn’t exactly developer related, but it is annoying enough that I feel compelled to address it. I usually have few complaints about [...]
Getting started in Cocoa can be hard. Just learning the frameworks is a challenge. Once you get to that point, most or your journey still lies ahead. If you were like me, you probably learned a lot about iPhone programming from online tutorials and books. Then one day, after your 16th tutorial and 3rd book, [...]
After Scott Stevenson put out this question on Twitter and his subsequent blog post, it got me thinking. When I really started digging into Cocoa, I remember staring at UIViewController and UITableViewControler for hours, maybe days. Figuring out what all of those methods did seemed impossible. In retrospect, I can see these classes represent some [...]
Until recently I have been, for lack of a better work, selfish in my use of Stack Overflow. I asked many questions, but but gave few answers. I was a good citizen in that I at least searched for answers before I posted a new question. If i did post an answer, It was usually [...]
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