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Understanding iOS 4 Backgrounding and Delegate Messaging
Oliver Drobnik (Dr. Touch): Understanding iOS 4 Backgrounding and Delegate Messaging. State diagram for iPhone applications with respect to multitasking. The only thing I see missing is some times when your app will be killed, but you can’t handle those anyway.
Assign, retain, copy pitfalls in Objective-C
Cocoa With Love (Matt Gallagher): Assign, retain, copy pitfalls in Objective-C.
Objective-C 2.2 Features
Martin Pilkington (Code Collector Pro) on Objective-C 2.2 features. He covers the code reduction features of the new runtime. These are coming to “modern” Apple runtimes, meaning 64-bit Mac and iPhone.
Perceived complexity
Matt Gammell of Instinctive Code on a developer’s perception of their software’s complexity.
OpinionSpy
The Mac Security Blog: Applications that Install OpinionSpy. Mac spyware. Not anything you’re likely to run into.
Matt Gemmell: iPad VGA output
Matt Gemmell (author various open source libraries, including Twitter engine used in Twitterrific) on iPad VGA output.
Benchmarking the iPad
Craig Hockenberry (Twitterrific) benchmarks the iPad. The speed just blows away the original iPhone.
Future shock
Fraser Speirs of Connected Flow (author of FlickrExport and Changes) on the reaction to the iPad Future shock: I’m often saddened by the infantilising effect of high technology on adults. From being in control of their world, they’re thrust back to … Continue reading
Apple's Mistake
Paul Graham (Wikipedia article) on Apple's Mistake, with a great comparison: What would happen if every update to Mac OS X had to go through an opaque, fickle intermediary?
Manton Reece: Two fixes for the App Store
Manton Reece, developer of Clipstart and Wii Transfer for the Mac, writing on the only two acceptable fixes for the iPhone App Store, boils down the iPhone problems to a single sentence: I want my software to fail because it … Continue reading
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