Tools
How do iOS programmers develop applications using Vim?
With Xcode stability hitting what seems like an unfortunate all time low, this is an interesting question on Quora on using vim for day to day editing of your Mac and iOS source.
quora.com
Code
QuickDialog
Who has got themselves in a mess while writing a tableView:cellForRowAtIndexPath: method for a settings or form entry style table view? You might want to check out QuickDialog.
github.com
All About OpenGL ES
Not published this week but I came across this excellent guide to beginning OpenGL ES on my travels this week. Well worth a read.
db-in.com
Online Session Code for Big Objects (Plus a Warning)
Jeff LaMarche on why you should always pay attention to documentation!
blogspot.com
Using blocks for drawing to avoid subclassing in Objective-C
I am not sure whether I am a big fan of this but I thought the technique was interesting. David Hamrick on using blocks to create a generic custom drawn UIView.
davidhamrick.com
Design
Pttrns
An excellent resource for checking out how other apps have coped with common UI challenges on iOS. This is not a new site but I noticed it had been updated significantly this week with several new patterns.
pttrns.com
Business and Marketing
Where to begin
An interesting suggestion from Mike Lee to create your promo video as a way to really analyse your idea before starting to build it. I can't sum it up any better than Mike himself "By the time your video is finished, you’ll know what you’re building, what it looks like, and how it works.". Great Idea.
mu.rs
Where To? – Three exciting years
Another tap tap tap post, another beautiful infographic. The story of "Where To?" since it was acquired back in 2008, a remarkable success story with it having done over $500,000 in sales since the $70,000 acquisition.
taptaptap.com
Freemium Mobile Gamers Spend Most Money on Items They Don’t Keep
Following on from last weeks article, more analysis of in app purchases from Flurry.
flurry.com
Google Steps Up to Defend Android Developers From Patent Lawsuit
Not specifically an iOS story but the Lodsys story trundles along again this week with Google joining Apple in the line up of big guns attempting to prevent these in app purchase patent claims.
wired.com
Not so many links this week but I think you would rather that than if I padded it out! If you have any links you would like to suggest for future issues then please tweet me with them or reply to this mail.
Dave Verwer