Linked List Archive - Cocoa Manifest

June 2014

The Paradigms of Swift Thursday, June 12
New O'Reilly Videos For iOS (with Yours Truly) Sunday, June 08
Unit Testing with Swift Friday, June 06
Where The Metal API Could Be Headed Tuesday, June 03

March 2014

Our Sprite Kit Book Now In Beta Wednesday, March 05

February 2014

Yes, *that* Brent Simmons Thursday, February 27
NSUserDefaults - Not Just For Persistent Settings Wednesday, February 26
Don't Write Off Tinkering In The Garage Tuesday, February 25
Apple's Secure Coding Guide Monday, February 24
Security Is Code Formatting Monday, February 24
DTrace - Lightning Stolen From The Unix Gods For Use By Mere Mortals Wednesday, February 12
strace - Tool of The Unix Gods Monday, February 10
Solving The Huge View Controller Problem Wednesday, February 05

January 2014

The Failures of Teaching Test Driven Development Monday, January 27
The Early Bird Gets The CocoaConf Monday, January 27
TaskPaper Source Code Released Thursday, January 09
Generate Screen Shots Compatible With iTunes Metadata Uploader Thursday, January 09
So, You Want To Write A 2D iOS Game? Wednesday, January 08
My CocoaSlopes Talk On XCTest Friday, January 03

December 2013

"It Might be Good, But It Might Not Be Good Enough" Tuesday, December 24
Since You Can Compile Anything to JavaScript... Tuesday, December 24
Properties vs. ivars: Final Round Monday, December 23
Running Quartz Composer Patch Files on iOS Saturday, December 21
Design UI Interaction With Facebook's Origami Saturday, December 21
If Only We Had The Smalltalk IDE... Wednesday, December 18
"But if it’s a year or two, you need to be making a different game." Thursday, December 12
Because Garbage Collection Is Still A Thing Elsewhere Wednesday, December 11

November 2013

Computer History Museum Releases Apple II DOS Source Tuesday, November 12

October 2013

Just Because Some CEO Said So Thursday, October 10
NSHipster, The Novel Wednesday, October 02
Mike Ash's Final Word On ARM64 Tuesday, October 01

September 2013

A Simulation Of Newton's Cradle With UIKit Dynamics Monday, September 30
Modifying The isa Pointer on 64-bit ARM, or, I Didn't Have Enough Headaches This Morning Tuesday, September 24
Full Text Searchable Transcript Of WWDC Sessions, Seriously Tuesday, September 24
That's All It Took To Weaken The Encryption Monday, September 16
A Fingerprint Is Still Just A Single Factor Monday, September 16
Bwoken 2 - Command Line Workflow For UI Automation Friday, September 13
How Dropbox Resolves Conflicts, Or Not Thursday, September 05
First Time Users Wednesday, September 04

August 2013

What's With The Crazy Objective-C Block Syntax Thursday, August 22
UIAuto - Simpler CLI Interaction with UI Automation Wednesday, August 21
Long Live the King Wednesday, August 21
Feeding a Map View With NSFetchedResultsController Tuesday, August 20
Ben Scheirman's iOS Developer Tools List Extravaganza!!! Tuesday, August 20
The Future of Programming Tuesday, August 06
On Comparing iOS and Android Development Tuesday, August 06
Why Use CGRectMake and Friends? Monday, August 05
Using Class Clusters Instead of If-Statements To Support iOS 7 Monday, August 05

July 2013

Software Engineering is a Social Science Thursday, July 25
Objective C Generics Implemented Entirely At Compile Time Wednesday, July 24
RubyMotion Implements Retain Cycle Detection Tuesday, July 23
You, Too, Can Kill Patents of Software Monday, July 22
Apple Developer Portal, and The Perils of The Modern Age Monday, July 22
Apparently, URL Encoding/Decoding Is The Third Hardest Problem In Computer Science Friday, July 19
What Was That About Sufficiently Smart Compilers? Wednesday, July 10
Core Data for the Curious Rubyist. Or, Look Ma', I Spoke In Belgium! Tuesday, July 09
Eero hits v2.0 Tuesday, July 09

June 2013

What Can We Learn From Languages Without OO Inheritance?!? Friday, June 28
More On Why Objective-C Is The Way It Is Tuesday, June 25
Commercial Lisp for iOS Compiled Through LLVM Sunday, June 23
So, About That Unit Testing Thing... Saturday, June 22
WWDC 2013 Hidden Gems Wednesday, June 19
Usability vs Security: Wifi Hotspot Password Edition Wednesday, June 19
James Dempsey and The Breakpoints Live Near WWDC 2013 (With Yours Truly) Monday, June 03
Apple Radar Gets Gradient Toolbars, Still Opaque Saturday, June 01

May 2013

Operational Transforms And Core Data, In The Wild Friday, May 31
Remember How Pre-rendering With Core Graphics Was Better? Friday, May 31
SQLite's Atomic Magic Tricks...I Mean, Illusions Wednesday, May 29
"How Do I Learn All Those Details?" Tuesday, May 28
Or, Do I Wish The Objective-C Compiler Was Sufficiently Smart? Tuesday, May 28
Not All Programming Languages Are Created Equal (Duh!) Tuesday, May 28
Patents On Algorithms, Historical Edition Wednesday, May 22
Building Bridges To JavaScript Wednesday, May 15
How to Build Scar Tissue (Or, a fascinating approach to solving iCloud/Core Data) Tuesday, May 14
TICoreDataSync Hits 1.0.2 Tuesday, May 14
Now, *This* is A Bug Report Friday, May 10
RubyMotion: Now For OS X And With Weak References! Thursday, May 09
No More Patents on Software In New Zealand Thursday, May 09
SQLite: The File Format Of The Future Thursday, May 02

April 2013

GSAutomation - Simple Test Runner For UI Automation by the Hulu Tech Team Friday, April 26
Expert Beginners Tuesday, April 23
Codea, Lua IDE for iPad, Now Exports as Xcode Projects Monday, April 22
Run UI Automation Tests in the Cloud with cisimple Friday, April 12
Self Compiling Objective-C Files Monday, April 08
A Secure Incremental Store For Core Data Tuesday, April 02

March 2013

Particle Playground - Generate Core Animation Particle Emitter Code Tuesday, March 12
A Visual Regular Expression Debugger Monday, March 04
"Introspection And Attention To Details" Monday, March 04
"Use Autolayout Only When You Need To" Sunday, March 03
Prototype GLSL Shaders, *On The iPad*, With Codea Saturday, March 02

February 2013

Why Is Objective-C Like That? Friday, February 22
Why Is UITableView Like That? Friday, February 22
Back To The Futures Monday, February 18
"Good Ideas Are Contagious" Monday, February 18
PaintCode 1.3 Converts PSDs to Core Graphics Code. Seriously. Monday, February 11
Delighted Users == Viral Marketing Thursday, February 07
Switch Between Device and Simulator With Keyboard Shortcut in Xcode Wednesday, February 06
Brennan Stehling's Huge Library of Xcode Snippets Wednesday, February 06
Know Your Objective-C Blocks Wednesday, February 06
Want To Build Your Own Language On LLVM? Tuesday, February 05
Daniel Steinberg's iOS Storyboards iBook Saturday, February 02

January 2013

Running iOS Unit Tests From the Command Line Thursday, January 24
Bet You Didn't Know The Xcode Debugger Could Do That Wednesday, January 23
A Great Case Study of Retain Cycles, ARC, and Blocks Monday, January 21
SuperDB - F-Script based iOS remote console debugger Wednesday, January 16
CocoaConf '13, The Gathering Tuesday, January 15
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of C Monday, January 14
The Leaky Abstraction Known As Objective-C Monday, January 14
Google's iOS Development Workflow Saturday, January 05

December 2012

RubyMotion Pragmatic Programmers Book Sunday, December 23
Overwhelmingly Thorough Custom Layout Tutorial for UICollectionView Wednesday, December 12
`instancetype`, or How to Sneak Type Inference Into The Room Tuesday, December 11
Recognize Any Unistroke Shape With A Gesture Recognizer Tuesday, December 11
Real-time, inter-app audio pipes on iOS Monday, December 10
CocoaPods + Cocoa Controls = Slick Discovery For Third Party Libraries Monday, December 03

November 2012

Adding Modules To C Monday, November 26
Generate A Web Service On Heroku...From Core Data Models Wednesday, November 21
Automating iOS With Pythonista Sunday, November 18
Handling Keychain data with NSString Tuesday, November 13
So, You Want to Run Objective-C In The Cloud... Saturday, November 10
Concurrent HTTP Connections in Mobile Apps Thursday, November 08
The Original Mac Monkey Friday, November 02

October 2012

CaptureRecord - User+Screen Recording Library Wednesday, October 24
libextobjc - Objective-C Extended Friday, October 12
Remote View Controllers And XPC On iOS Thursday, October 04

September 2012

XVim - vim modes and bindings for Xcode Thursday, September 27
PSTCollectionView - A UICollectionView For iOS 4.3+ Wednesday, September 19
Yet Another Reason Why You Want The Source For Your Third Party Libs Monday, September 17
The Weaknesses of Objective-C Sunday, September 16
The Assumptions Behind Patents of Software Saturday, September 15
MiniXcode - Plugin that hides the toolbar Friday, September 14
Fingertips - Show off Touches When Mirroring on iOS Thursday, September 13
Continuous Integration and iOS in Depth Tuesday, September 11
ColorSense - Inline Color Picker and Editor for Xcode Monday, September 10
RubyMotion Team is Growing Thursday, September 06
AXElements - Like UI Automation For OS X Wednesday, September 05

August 2012

Breakpoint on "Unrecognized Selector Sent To Instance" Tuesday, August 28
Essential C Tuesday, August 28
Konami Code iOS Gesture Recognizer Thursday, August 23
Avoiding Merge Conflicts With Storyboards Tuesday, August 21
What Does That Have To Do With The Price Of Apps In The App Store? Monday, August 20
Acceptance Testing iOS Applications With Frank Monday, August 20
iOS Debugging Magic Wednesday, August 15
Security Risks And iTunes Connect Scraping Services Saturday, August 04
NSHipster - Weekly Journal of "Overlooked Bits" Thursday, August 02
OS X 10.8 Components Open Sourced Thursday, August 02
New Command Utilities in Mountain Lion Wednesday, August 01

July 2012

Cheddar for iOS Is Now Open Source Monday, July 30
Programming with Objective-C - Apple Style Monday, July 30
Pythonista - Powerful Python REPL on iPad Monday, July 16
iOS Hierarchy Viewer - Firebug for UI Kit Saturday, July 14
AFIncrementalStore Gets Core Data To Speak to REST Endpoints Friday, July 13
Simperium Sync Services Announces Pricing and Open Source Strategy Thursday, July 12
Cupertino - A Command Line Tool To Access Apple Developer Center Thursday, July 12
CocoaConf Coming Back To Columbus, OH Wednesday, July 11
Watch WWDC Videos From 2004 to 2008 Monday, July 09
If Objective-C and Python Had a Baby Sunday, July 08
View Controller Functional Testing in RubyMotion Saturday, July 07
Premature Optimization Is Like Drawing Conclusions From Sound Bites Wednesday, July 04
For That Newbie iOS Dev In Your Life Monday, July 02

June 2012

Core Data Sync Through Dropbox, or...Anything Friday, June 29
Yojimbo's Rough Transition to iCloud Wednesday, June 27
Getting Answers To Your Questions Monday, June 11
LLVM: Apple's Lesser Known Big Bet Sunday, June 10
Snippet Edit for Xcode Snippets Friday, June 08
Summary of One More Thing 2012 Tuesday, June 05
Oracle Sues to End Lodsys Monday, June 04

May 2012

iOS Security Thursday, May 31
RubyMotion Will Not Cure Ignorance Saturday, May 19
Core Data Transaction Logs Friday, May 18
Migrating Core Data in Code Thursday, May 17
Core Data and iCloud Woes in Depth Wednesday, May 16
On Market Value Tuesday, May 15
Ruby Script To Grab ID of Plugged In iOS Device Monday, May 14
Simperium - An iCloud Like Sync Layer That Supports Core Data Friday, May 11
Logging Without NSLog Tuesday, May 08
iOS Application Insecurity Friday, May 04
RubyMotion - Finally a *native* Ruby for iOS Thursday, May 03

April 2012

Indie Developer Lab - the underground WWDC Saturday, April 28
Bwoken - CoffeeScript Compiling Workflow for UI Automation Friday, April 27
Embedding Ruby on iOS Thursday, April 26
How To Write an iOS App In Pure C Tuesday, April 24
Game built entirely on iPad with Codea Monday, April 23
Automatic Boxing Friday, April 20
Test Driven iOS Development (book) Friday, April 13
Apple Can Defend App Devs Against Lodsys Friday, April 13
LayerCake - Taming those PSD assets Friday, April 06
Novocaine - Block Based High Performance Audio Library Wednesday, April 04

March 2012

iOS 5 Hardening Guide (pdf) Friday, March 30
Test Studio for iOS Thursday, March 29
Installing Mountain Lion Preview on VMWare Wednesday, March 28
You're Selling it Wrong? Wednesday, March 28
lolcommit Tuesday, March 27
Paid Upgrades Tuesday, March 27
iOS 5 Programming Pushing The Limits (book) Monday, March 26
Vector vs Bitmap in a Retina World Monday, March 26
Limit on JPG Dimensions in iOS Webkit Friday, March 23
Debugging iCloud Core Data Friday, March 23
RESTful API Design Thursday, March 22
PaintCode - Vector Drawing Tool For Core Graphics Wednesday, March 21
Collections and Enumerations in Objective-C Tuesday, March 20
Codesigning With the Apple Developer ID Gotchas Monday, March 19
Accessing Web Services Through NSPredicates Monday, March 19
This American Is Impressed Monday, March 19
Apple Devices Broadcast Recently Seen MAC Addresses Friday, March 16
MacRuby, Xib file outlets, and Xcode 4.3 Thursday, March 15
ActiveGS by the Free Tools Association Wednesday, March 14
Dictionary with Keys For Values Tuesday, March 13
Test Driving iOS Development with Kiwi (book) Tuesday, March 13
On Patents: The Myth of the Sole Inventor Friday, March 09
Disable iPad Home Button Thursday, March 08
So You Wanna Be An iOS Developer? Thursday, March 08
Fix Radar or GTFO Wednesday, March 07
Unix as IDE Wednesday, March 07
Sandboxing and Applescripts Tuesday, March 06

February 2012

Your Move, Apple Wednesday, February 22
GPUImage Framework Tuesday, February 21
So, How Much Will It Cost To Build This App? Sunday, February 19
Time To Rethink Your Class Design Saturday, February 18
More Common Ground Friday, February 17
Common Ground Thursday, February 16
Hacking and Securing iOS Applications (Book) Thursday, February 16
The JSON Saga Wednesday, February 15
NSScreencast Wednesday, February 15
Tale of an iOS Freelancer Tuesday, February 14
Making Love to Webkit Monday, February 13
It Is Possible To Do Object Oriented Programming In Objective-C Thursday, February 09
Unit Testing Cocoa with MacRuby Saturday, February 04
QuickLook Plugin For Provisioning Profiles Wednesday, February 01

January 2012

SOPA and PIPA Wednesday, January 18

December 2011

Real Software Engineering Wednesday, December 28
"Cheap" and "Customizable" Monday, December 26
Zucchini: Promising Cucumber-like Front End for UI Automation Friday, December 23
Apple Lossless Decoder...Written in JavaScript Friday, December 23
Repeat Text Actions Like Vim In Any Cocoa Text Field Thursday, December 22
Yours Truly on the NSBrief Podcast Friday, December 16
Overwhelming List Of Good Cocoa Literature Monday, December 12
GAJavaScript - Objective-C bridge to Javascript running in a web view Saturday, December 10
Remotely Debugging UIWebViews From The Desktop Thursday, December 08
Want MacRuby on iOS? Tuesday, December 06
Siri API May Be Far Off Friday, December 02

November 2011

So, What's A Good Practice With Groups And Directories In Xcode? Wednesday, November 30
Xcode 4 Keyboard Shortcuts Tuesday, November 29
Browser Debugging Tools: Bonus Features Tuesday, November 29
Rapture XML Saturday, November 26
Developing on an iPad with Vim Saturday, November 26
Exception Backtraces in Xcode 4.2 Wednesday, November 23
How Xcode Optimizes PNGs Tuesday, November 22
How Would You Do That In Lisp? Monday, November 14
Hues - Invoke the Color Picker Anytime Tuesday, November 08
Quickly Find Any UIColor Tuesday, November 08
Debugging NSMutableURLRequests Monday, November 07
AFNetworking Friday, November 04
Write Lua on the iPad Thursday, November 03

October 2011

Avoiding View Controller Spaghetti Monday, October 31
Automatic Reference Counting Tuesday, October 25
Think You're An Advanced iOS 5 Dev? Friday, October 21
Debug Your UIView Hierarchy Thursday, October 20
Namespacing Hack in Objective-C Monday, October 17
New Features in GCD Friday, October 14
Dennis Ritchie Thursday, October 13
Who Are You? Tuesday, October 11
Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns Sunday, October 09

September 2011

UTF-8 All The Way Down Wednesday, September 21
A Pausable, Persistent Operation Queue Tuesday, September 20
A "URL" Router for Objective-C Tuesday, September 13
Privacy Policies Tuesday, September 06
Destroy All Software Thursday, September 01

August 2011

The Architecture Of Modern Browsers Monday, August 29
Smalltalk Running on Javascript Tuesday, August 23
Google Drops a Load on Lodsys Saturday, August 20
Aspect Oriented Programming with Proxy Objects Wednesday, August 17
Nimbus, Rebirth of Three20 Monday, August 15
Another iOS Developer's Perspective of Android Sunday, August 07
Text And Graphics Layout with CoreText Thursday, August 04
Banding Together Against Lodsys Thursday, August 04
Amazon App Store Woes Wednesday, August 03
Hack Mac Password Through Firewire Port? Tuesday, August 02
Lion Security Model Tuesday, August 02
PhoneGap goes 1.0 Monday, August 01

July 2011

How the Editor of A Windows Magazine Became an Apple Fanboy Tuesday, July 26
Generate Colored Icons From Image Masks In Objective-C Monday, July 25
Lodsys Sues Angry Birds Over Patent Suit Thursday, July 21
Full Disk Encryption Without Erasing Data in Lion Thursday, July 21
State of Test Driven Development on iOS Wednesday, July 20
Analysis of Apple's International App Price Adjustment Friday, July 15
Patents and the Independent Developer Wednesday, July 13
Design Evolution of an iOS App Monday, July 11
What Manner of Dark NSPredicate Magic is This? Wednesday, July 06
MacRuby Presentation By A Core Contributor Tuesday, July 05
Leaving Old iOS Versions Behind Friday, July 01

June 2011

I'm Speaking At CocoaConf 2011 (Columbus, OH) Thursday, June 30
How Much Is Each iOS User Worth To Apple? Thursday, June 30
What's In An App Name? Tuesday, June 28
Android and the Open Web Monday, June 27
Native Scrolling in Web Apps on iOS 5 Monday, June 27
WWDC 2011 Videos Thursday, June 23
gdb Tips and Tricks Tuesday, June 21
Dev's Eye View of iOS and Android Monday, June 20
Git Immersion Monday, June 20
Mustache HTML Templating in Objective-C Wednesday, June 15
Apple and The Mobile Web Monday, June 13
Automating Ad Hoc Builds From The Command Line Friday, June 03
Balancing the Network Activity Indicator Thursday, June 02

May 2011

Lodsys Gussies Up Poker Face Tuesday, May 31
HockeyApp for Distributing Ad Hoc Builds Tuesday, May 31
Manaing Multiple Resolutions of Images Thursday, May 26
Evernote's Architecture Tuesday, May 24
Apple Responds to Lodsys Monday, May 23
Deploy AdHoc Builds with Dropbox Monday, May 23
Building Twitter's Layered iPad Interface Monday, May 23
Flash, Meet Hype Friday, May 20
Native-like Web Scrolling on iOS Friday, May 20
A Programmer's Job Is To Delete Code Thursday, May 19
App Store Reviewers Are People, Too Wednesday, May 18
FAQ For Lodsys Software Patent Suits Tuesday, May 17
iPad Interfaces: Doing Them Right Tuesday, May 17
Advertising Your Product To The Right Audience Tuesday, May 17
Core Data Model Woes Monday, May 16
Android 101 for the iOS Developer Sunday, May 15
App Store Trademark: What Goes Around Comes Around Friday, May 13
iOS Devs Sued for In App Purchases Friday, May 13
Building Xcode 4 Projects From The Command Line Friday, May 13
One Line Core Data Fetch Tuesday, May 10
Xcode is to Internet Explorer as... Monday, May 09
Cocoa Controls Sunday, May 08
Think You're A Hotshot? Friday, May 06
Nothing to Hide Tuesday, May 03
Apple stops iTunes reviews for apps downloaded with promo code Tuesday, May 03
Live Crash Reporting with QuincyKit Monday, May 02

April 2011

Use Your Own Fonts with FontLabel Saturday, April 30
Beware The Allure Of Cross Platform Toolkits Friday, April 29
Git Workflow Friday, April 29
What's The Value of a Free App? Friday, April 29
Show Only Currently Active Apps in the Mac OS X Dock Thursday, April 28
ArcGIS API v1.8 Released Thursday, April 28
"Native" Javascript on iOS Wednesday, April 27
Location, Location, Location Wednesday, April 27
Smartphones on the Toilet Tuesday, April 26
They Still Made Typewriters? Tuesday, April 26
One Finger Rotation Gesture Recognizer Tuesday, April 26
Apps, The New Medium Monday, April 25
MIDI Dock Port Connector for iPad Monday, April 25
Detailed Analysis of consolidated.db Thursday, April 21
Appcelerator or Phonegap Revisited Thursday, April 21
You Already Agreed To Be Tracked Thursday, April 21
Boldly Marketing Your Apps Wednesday, April 20
How Apple Tracks Your Location Without Consent Wednesday, April 20
iPhones Record Your Location History in Unencrypted File Wednesday, April 20
Security Doesn't Have to Trump Usability Wednesday, April 20
The Paradox of Lisp Monday, April 18
What App Developers Want Saturday, April 16
Javascript Has Jumped The Shark Friday, April 15
Subclassing NSInputStream Friday, April 15
PUT vs POST: A Field Guide Friday, April 15
Appcelerator Titanium: A world of hurt Thursday, April 14
iOS Upgrades Are Part of the Value Chain Wednesday, April 13
Open Source Continual Speech Recognition? Yup Wednesday, April 13
iLuaBox - iOS IDE for Lua Tuesday, April 12
Demo Your iPhone App In A Browser Tuesday, April 12
Push Notifications Without the Headache Monday, April 11
Realism in User Interfaces Monday, April 11
Why Estimating Development Time is Hard Sunday, April 10
Kiwi From Scratch on Xcode 4 Thursday, April 07
Lucid Code Thursday, April 07
iOS Beta Testing: The Easy Way Wednesday, April 06
Cocoa with Love Wednesday, April 06

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