Monthly Archives: July 2009

Apple’s developer documentation website is horrible

Posted on July 22, 2009 by Steven Fisher

Isn’t anyone at Apple even mildly embarrassed about how poor the ADC search results are? Like everyone other Mac developer (at least, those not using a seed… no comment otherwise), I’ve been bit by the Mac OS X 10.5.7 bug … Continue reading →

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Wade Cosgrove (Panic): Developer Color Picker. Copy colors from the picker as a [UIColor initWithRed:green:blue:alpha:] sequence.

Posted on July 17, 2009 by Steven Fisher | Comments Off

Custom Google Search: iPhone reference library search. Slightly less annoying than crashing Xcode, also slightly less annoying than just using Google search.

Posted on July 17, 2009 by Steven Fisher | Comments Off

Palm doesn’t need iTunes to sync music to the Pre

Posted on July 15, 2009 by Steven Fisher

Palm’s USB trick to get iTunes to load the Pre was a clever, if unethical ((Yes, I mean unethical. Of course it’s unethical to promote a feature you have no control over that could disappear in instant. And especially when … Continue reading →

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A long essay by Craig Hockenberry on the good and the bad of the App Store.

Posted on July 10, 2009 by Steven Fisher | Comments Off

I knew about Quartz Debug.app , but hadn’t heard of NSShowAllDrawing. Sounds more practical.

Posted on July 10, 2009 by Steven Fisher | Comments Off

Justin Williams: Die you damn, dirty tab bar.

Posted on July 8, 2009 by Steven Fisher | Comments Off

John Casasanta (Tap tap tap) on the impact of the iPhone 3GS RAM increase. Pretty memory usage graphs.

Posted on July 8, 2009 by Steven Fisher | Comments Off

NSURL synchronous requests

Posted on July 8, 2009 by Steven Fisher

Can’t verify this yet, but something I want to investigate later: Chris Parker (who “works for a fruit company in Cupertino”) via Twitter: Hey iPhone devs: sending synchronous requests via NSURL on the main thread is a good way to … Continue reading →

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Cut the crap

Posted on July 7, 2009 by Steven Fisher

One thing I’m surprised at every few months is how few good WordPress themes there are without sidebars, or at least with fully customizable content within the sidebar. To me, sidebars with lots of internal links are a sign of … Continue reading →

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