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Understanding iOS 4 Backgrounding and Delegate Messaging

Steven Fisher — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 01:25:42 +0000

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

Steven Fisher — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 15:11:47 +0000

Cocoa With Love (Matt Gallagher): Assign, retain, copy pitfalls in Objective-C.

Objective-C 2.2 Features

Steven Fisher — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 20:28:11 +0000

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

Steven Fisher — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 03:21:00 +0000

Matt Gammell of Instinctive Code on a developer’s perception of their software’s complexity.

OpinionSpy

Steven Fisher — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 17:48:21 +0000

The Mac Security Blog: Applications that Install OpinionSpy. Mac spyware. Not anything you’re likely to run into.

Matt Gemmell: iPad VGA output

Steven Fisher — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 17:47:41 +0000

Matt Gemmell (author various open source libraries, including Twitter engine used in Twitterrific) on iPad VGA output.

Benchmarking the iPad

Steven Fisher — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 01:29:45 +0000

Craig Hockenberry (Twitterrific) benchmarks the iPad. The speed just blows away the original iPhone.

Future shock

Steven Fisher — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 19:31:15 +0000

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 a childish, mediaeval world in which gremlins appear to torment them and disappear at will and against which magic, spells, and the local witch doctor are their only refuges.

Apple's Mistake

Steven Fisher — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:22:58 +0000

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

Steven Fisher — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 05:13:40 +0000

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 sucks, or is buggy, or doesn't have the right features, not because Apple can shut me down over a minor difference of opinion.