Fast Enumeration, part 1
iOS MacFast Enumeration was introduced into Objective-C back in the 10.5 days. It’s the feature that lets you succinctly iterate through a collection:
Tiny Programs, the Atomic Edition
iOS MacReaders of this blog might notice a pattern in my postings. They’re occasionally accompanied by a small program to demonstrate some interesting point.
Read/Write all about it!
iOS MacThis question came up in an IRC channel the other day: “What’s the best way to set up a property that’s read-only externally, but...
Unsafe at Any Speed
iOS Mac__unsafe_unretained. That sounds pretty scary. It’s a new symbol added by ARC that’s used to decorate pointers. It pops up in...
Adventures in Debugging: Keeping a Log
iOS Leveling Up MacI usually encounter two classes of bugs on a regular basis. The first is of the form “I think I know where this...
Peek a View
iOS MacWhen I’m developing new code, my usual habit is to do a lot of small iterations. That gives me a little bit of...
Signings of the Times
iOSYou know that sinking feeling in your stomach. That horrible emotion that you know that something has gone wrong, seriously wrong, and you’re...
Tops in his Field
iOS MacToday is Labor Day over here in the states, with many Nerds are taking a well-deserved break to go out into the Big Room...
It's the endian of the world as we know it
iOS MacCocoaHeads Boise on twitter asked for an elaboration on big vs little endian. In the query was a very interesting statement: ...
enum-num-num
iOS MacAs happens occasionally, an interesting technical discussion ensues in an IRC channel. Earlier this week, this question came up why does Apple do...
About Mutability
iOS MacCocoa has a number of classes that can hold arbitrary amounts of Stuff. Things like arrays, dictionaries, sets, index sets, character sets, strings,...
A Bit on Warnings
iOS MacI like warnings. I really do. It reminds me that the compiler loves me and is looking out for me. (OK,...
