Static Cling
iOS MacI was hanging out on the #macdev IRC channel on Freenode the other day when someone asked a question: “static has different meanings based...
We Got So Much Power, That's Ridiculous
iOS MacInstruments is a cool tool. There is a lot it can do beyond “simple” things like profiling your application’s execution time or finding...
Spelunkhead
iOS MacYou can find all sorts of interesting and useful stuff in Apple’s header files. Don’t be afraid to explore them. I usually troll through...
The Write Stuff
Leveling UpIf anyone would have told me 30 years ago that I’d actually enjoy writing, that I’d look forward to writing something new, that I’d...
The Ranch at CocoaConf/DC
Conferences iOS MacJust got back from the DC area, where some fellow Ranchers and I went to CocoaConf. If you’re not familiar with CocoaConf, it’s a...
Incremental Arrayification
iOS MacSimple questions can be fun. A friend in the Pittsburgh CocoaHeads said “Hey MarkD. We’re having a discussion at work on the right way...
Hooked on DTrace, part 4
iOS MacI lied. Sorry. I thought this dive into DTrace would be a three-parter, but here’s a part 4, on static probes, suggested in a...
Hooked on DTrace, part 3
iOS MacAs you’ve seen before, DTrace can give you a huge amount of visibility into the guts of your computer. You saw the syscall...
Hooked on DTrace, part 2
iOS MacThe other day I was chatting with one of my colleagues at the Ranch and he asked me where I get my blog ideas....
Hooked on DTrace, part 1
iOS MacThis is the first of a four-parter. You can find the other parts here: two, three, four
Hijacking for Fun and Profit
iOS MacLast fall I took a week off to escape from the world. I assigned myself three tasks for that time: disappear and recover...
dispatch_once upon a time
iOS MacGrand Central Dispatch, a.k.a libdispatch and usually referred to as GCD, is a low-level API known for performing asynchronous background work. dispatch_async is its...
