Issue 10

7^th October 2011

Written by Dave Verwer

Comment

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Code

Automatic Reference Counting

Simply the clearest and best explanation of ARC that I have seen so far. Fascinating.

ARC, Exceptions and Objective-C

More ARC, this time from Jiva DeVoe who has been looking into ARC and exceptions.

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.

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.

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!).