Monthly Archives: April 2009

User accounts removed

Posted on April 25, 2009 by Steven Fisher

I originally required registration to comment to cut down on spam, before Akismet was easy to use. It was a crappy requirement, who wants to register with a random blog just to leave a comment? So I turned it off, … Continue reading →

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How to manipulate a developer

Posted on April 20, 2009 by Steven Fisher

Hint: We like being manipulated, as long as it’s being manipulated correctly. inessential.com: How to manipulate me (or, Tuesday Whipper-Snapping) Imagine you’re in my shoes: you’re me, for a minute. Think about feature requests, for example—you have a list several … Continue reading →

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Another iPhone programming gotcha, this one involving UIImage’s imageNamed: method. Worth noting for later.

Posted on April 16, 2009 by Steven Fisher | Comments Off

Keeping optimal autorelease pools

Posted on April 4, 2009 by Steven Fisher

Martin Pilkington on autorelease pools: However, a problem arises when you’re creating a lot of objects at once. The obvious solution is to initialise and release objects by hand in this case, but sometimes it isn’t possible. A lot of … Continue reading →

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