From Total Newbie to App Store in Six Months
Editor’s note: In just six months, Scott Smith went from Big Nerd Ranch student to developing TapAMap, now available for iPhone and iPad.
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....
Experiments as play
The humanities scholar in me rebels when I hear the word “experiment.” To me, an experiment is a big, formal thing with a hypothesis...
Hooked on DTrace, part 1
iOS MacThis is the first of a four-parter. You can find the other parts here: two, three, four
Have you heard the news?
We’ve been making headlines lately:
Cocoa UI Preservation Y'all
MacMac OS X Lion introduced sudden termination, an opt-in feature for Cocoa apps that allows the system to terminate apps that aren’t in use...
Getting to Know Big Nerd Ranch
I recently became our Developer Evangelist. In this role, my goal is to make the best developers in the world want to work with...
Monsters from the id
iOS MacSometimes things aren’t as simple as they appear. One of my former students was asking what id * meant. This seemed straightforward enough, but...
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...
Creating View-Centric Interfaces with the Decorator Pattern
Back-End Full-Stack WebOccasionally in the life-cycle of an application we find that we need two distinct domain objects to quack alike, even if their underlying structures differ greatly....
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...
What would you say ya do here?
Since joining Big Nerd Ranch in April 2011, I have grown by leaps and bounds as a software developer and consultant, and I’m surrounded...
