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Animating Interfaces with Core Animation: Part 2
This is the second in a series of posts I’m writing on animating iOS interfaces using Core Animation. In the previous post I created a planetary orbit demo using nested CALayer objects. This time I’m...
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Animating Interfaces with Core Animation: Part 3
This is the third in a series of posts I’m writing on animating iOS interfaces using Core Animation. In the first post I created a planetary orbit demo using nested CALayer objects. The second post...
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Animating Interfaces with Core Animation: Part 4
This is the fourth in a series of posts I’m writing on animating iOS interfaces using Core Animation. In the first post I created a planetary orbit demo using nested CALayer objects. The second post...
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Back To Basics: Positioning UIViews
These days I’ve been working on some fairly advanced iOS development techniques on my various projects: I’ve taught myself (badly) about Core Audio, I’m learning OpenGL, I’m developing a series of...
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Back to Basics: Simple UITableViews
Following up on my previous post in this series, I’m going to continue talking about beginner topics that I and many other developers take for granted. So for this entry in my “Back To Basics” series...
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Back to Basics: Using KVO
One of the things I like most about Apple’s iOS SDK is the consistent and easy-to-use API they provide. Across all their different frameworks there’s a pattern at work that makes using their classes...
View ArticleUsing GCD and Blocks Effectively
With iOS 4.0 Apple introduced two new technologies to the iOS platform: Grand Central Dispatch, and blocks. Simply put, it is to multi-threaded programming what fire is to a barbecue. Sure you can do...
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Building a static library with Jenkins
One of my pet peeves is Open Source iOS libraries distributed as just a collection of Objective-C classes, rather than being bundled as a static library. I know a lot of people prefer it that way, but...
View ArticleDocset Viewer: Resuming large downloads with NSURLConnection
As I’ve shown in my previous post announcing Docset Viewer, I want this series of posts to be more than me talking about my new app. In keeping with the instructional nature of my site, I’m going to...
View ArticleDocset Viewer v1.2 and how to customize iCloud backups
I’ve recently released version 1.2 of Docset Viewer, which fixes a number of bugs people experienced with the previous version. If you had problems with the previous release, please give this one a...
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