Those of us using iPhones and who are on iOS 6.x have seen Apple’s implementation of pull to refresh. Apple has made this control available to iOS developers – starting with iOS 6.0. We’ve all seen various implementations by other …
NSLog is a good debugging tool some of the time. Coming from AS3 I am quite used to trace statements, and even fancy AIR solutions for runtime tracing and variable lookups and tweaking. I realize that NSLog isn’t the best …
Linking up tutorial part 1 of 2 here. Another Ray Wenderlich thing, this time written by Brandon Trebitowski. If you’re tired of displaying things in a UITableView or would like the option to present the same list materials in various …
I’ll admit that this previous Cocoaheads Boston meeting got me thinking about Auto Layout again. I tried it in the past on my own and found it too different from springs and struts that I simply converted my ViewController to …
This week has been a rush of updates and installations for me. Most excellent. Xcode 4.6.1 OS X 10.8.3 Dropbox 2.0 Alfred 2.0 DeskShade MBP Retina update Safari 6.0.3 Feedly Extension for all my copies of Safari
Tonight I took a drive down I-90W and into Boston down to MIT building E51 for a Cocoaheads Boston meeting. I was sweating the intricacies of getting around down there since I’m not exactly familiar with the area, but once …
October 5 National Xcode Developers Day. Spread the word. The date is pretty obvious.
Jonas Schnelli has a good UIColor implementation for Objective-C which will allow you to use Hex colors for UIColor, including alpha values… all by using an NSString implementation. Short, sweet, and it works like a charm. Check the link to …
iPhone UIColor got you down? Try this on for size… Read more »
From 3D Safari Sites (A list of sites known to employ the brand new 3D effects of Snow Leopard’s Safari. Mmm, hardware-accelerated CSS) comes a new entry… the first 3D WordPress theme. Launch using Safari. It’s not really usable at this point, but …
So your SWFs won’t play on an iPhone/Touch or iPad? If Chris Smoak has anything to do about it, they will albeit in another form. Chris has written a Flash Player in JavaScript (called Smokescreen) that takes Flash objects and …
I am simply stunned. Today Apple passed Microsoft’s value of $226.3 billion by being valued at $227.1 billion. While this could change tomorrow morning and this metric isn’t necessarily the best (Apple doesn’t pay dividends, etc.) this all tells me …
Apple is now the world’s most valuable technology company Read more »