Earlier today I hosted Coder Radio with Chris Fisher of Jupiter Broadcasting and in the episode we discussed my reactions as a developer to the WWDC keynote this year (2012). First things first. I did not attend WWDC nor have I installed the iOS 6.0 developer release,...
Programming Pitfalls: NSAutorelease Pools on iOS 4.X
iOS 5 has brought a lot of quality of life improvements in terms of memory management and the general iOS development workflow, assuming you are on the latest tooling. However, nothing is free and there seems to be a little bit of a pitfall that you might hit if you...
Simply Loading TableViewCells from a Nib
UITableViews drive a significant portion of iOS apps. Apple has provided some pretty great tools for developing decent looking apps based on them, but there are times when you might want to do something a little more stylish than what iOS provides. That’s when you...
Objective-C Singletons
A singleton is a way for developers to keep one and only one object of a class in existence for the entire lifecycle of an application; the nitpicky among you will note that there are portions of an app that might not have any instances of a singleton object, since it...
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