News
Submit Your iOS 5 Apps Today
iOS 5 is right around the corner, time to submit your iOS 5 and iCloud apps for review.
apple.com
Easy Caching with Parse
Talking of iCloud, Parse is shaping up to be a very nice competitor to it with the added bonus of not needing iOS 5.
parse.com
Tools
Xcode Version Icons
Alternative icons for multiple Xcode versions. Apple should really do this for the beta releases but until that happens this should put an end to the confusion.
gallantgames.com
Xcode 4 Debugging Crash-Course
One for the beginners, this is an excellently written article from Steffen Itterheim with a great look at getting started with Xcode debugging.
learn-cocos2d.com
Code
Automatic Reference Counting
Simply the clearest and best explanation of ARC that I have seen so far. Fascinating.
mikeash.com
ARC, Exceptions and Objective-C
More ARC, this time from Jiva DeVoe who has been looking into ARC and exceptions.
random-ideas.net
Accessing Image Properties Without Loading the Image into Memory
Ole Begemann on saving significant amounts of memory loading images if you just need to get at the metadata.
oleb.net
Avoiding Image Decompression Sickness
This week seems to be image performance techniques week as Oliver Drobnik takes a look at image loading performance. I never thought to run pngcrush on the server, clever.
cocoanetics.com
Syntax of the Future Past
Jamie Montgomerie with a fascinating bit of internet archaeology digging into modern syntax for Objective-C. An old post but it came up this week after a discussion at the NSScotland conference (which was excellent!).
montgomerie.net
I, like all of you am devastated by the sad news earlier this week. I am not going to link to any of the wonderful tributes as I am sure you have seen them all already. A terrible loss but an amazing inspiration and legacy, thank you Steve.
Dave Verwer