We haven’t had much low level content here in a while but this Friday Q&A should make up for that. Mike Ash takes an in depth look at the buggiest of all functions, objc_msgSend.
Ever wanted to know what the Gunning Fog score for a piece of text was? This is a niche one but this NSString category by Ryan Nystrom implements Dave Child’s text-statistics which gives various readability statistics.
Logan Collins with a little experiment to visualise the face detection features available as part of Core Image. It’s easy to forget that we have access to this powerful feature.
It seems it might be niche week on iOS Dev Weekly this week with Graham Lee for iDeveloper TV takes a look at developing a privileged helper app for OS X. Not something you will need to do every day but it’s always good to learn something new.
I love this implementation of a standard OS X style preferences window from Vadim Shpakovski. Just drop it in and create view controllers for each preference tab, could you ask for anything simpler?
Nice analogy from Vlad Lokshin.