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My App Store release checklist 23 Apr 2012 | 07:30 am
For the longest time it seemed that releasing an update to an iOS app was a random whack-a-mole process that I’d invariably get wrong in some way. It was maddening, especially since iTunes Connect ha...
Logging with CocoaLumberjack and TestFlight 5 Apr 2012 | 08:39 am
Consider the following situation that happens far too often in mobile app development: You’ve just released an app that works perfectly for you, and you’ve tested it extensively. You’re proud of your ...
Docset Viewer v1.2 and how to customize iCloud backups 22 Mar 2012 | 03:23 pm
I’ve recently released version 1.2 of Docset Viewer, which fixes a number of bugs people experienced with the previous version. If you had problems with the previous release, please give this one a tr...
Docset Viewer: Resuming large downloads with NSURLConnection 17 Mar 2012 | 08:27 am
As I’ve shown in my previous post announcing Docset Viewer, I want this series of posts to be more than me talking about my new app. In keeping with the instructional nature of my site, I’m going to s...
Announcing Docset Viewer v1.1 for iPad and iPhone 10 Mar 2012 | 06:39 pm
Over the years my blog has transformed from the usual “Wordy geek ranting about first-world problems” content toward more educational and informative posts on what I do for a living: developing awesom...
Core Graphics isn’t scary, honest! 2 Jan 2012 | 08:20 pm
For anyone who’s developed exclusively with UIViews on iOS may take the title of this post a bit oddly. “WHAT?!” they might say, “Are you insane? Core Graphics is not only a C-only API, but has confus...
Back To Basics: Simple debugging tips in Xcode 22 Dec 2011 | 10:13 am
As developers we spend most of our lives dealing with broken and barely-functional software: our own software. We do our best to make the applications we develop somewhat less broken and try to add fe...
Building a static library with Jenkins 27 Sep 2011 | 04:07 am
One of my pet peeves is Open Source iOS libraries distributed as just a collection of Objective-C classes, rather than being bundled as a static library. I know a lot of people prefer it that way, but...
Using GCD and Blocks Effectively 2 Sep 2011 | 12:39 pm
With iOS 4.0 Apple introduced two new technologies to the iOS platform: Grand Central Dispatch, and blocks. Simply put, it is to multi-threaded programming what fire is to a barbecue. Sure you can d...
Back to Basics: Using KVO 30 Jul 2011 | 09:38 am
One of the things I like most about Apple’s iOS SDK is the consistent and easy-to-use API they provide. Across all their different frameworks there’s a pattern at work that makes using their classes ...
