WebSockets
They’re pretty dumb. But they’re better than nothing.
Software Development
Swift for the Server?
There’s been a lot of chatter this week about Swift, Apple’s big bomb on the developer community at this week’s WWDC. It’ll be interesting to see how things play out on the desktop… whether Objective-C give up its title to the new contender. But my speculation is that Swift is eventually going to make a […]
User Feedback Systems
A cursory glance at user-feedback systems for iOS right now:
Singletons in Objective-C with ARC
Automatic Reference Counting (ARC) simplifies a lot in Objective-C, including singletons. Here’s a template for you:
XCode 4.1 crashes on startup in Lion
Did you just install OSX Lion and XCode 4.1? Does it crash on you as soon as you try to launch it?
Removing Settings.bundle from an iOS application
XCode4 is an extremely well designed development environment for iOS. But once in a while you hit upon a few quirks. If you’re developing an application and are experimenting with a Settings.bundle, then later decide to remove it, you may be pleasantly surprised to continue to find it in the iOS Simulator and on your […]
Auto-Incrementing Build Numbers in XCode
When getting feedback from your users, it’s important to know what version of your software they’re having problems with. Here’s a simple way to have an always incrementing build number in your project.
Singletons in Objective-C
Here’s the fullest implementation of a Singleton pattern for Objective-C.
Multi-Line Macros in C
The correct form of a multi-line macro is:
#define run_and_test() do { run(); test(); } while(0) /* Note: no ending semi-colon */