Chris Boyd
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I’ve worked on software of all shapes and sizes. One of the world’s largest open source projects. Small, back-office projects that never saw the light of day. All points in between. There really has never been a dull moment, because I love challenges, and as a developer I’m always faced with challenges new and old every day.
Today we’re going to delve into using the awesome NSOperationQueue method. You’re going to want to sit down for this, because it’s going to blow your mind. You can follow along with the demo project on Github, or build your own step by step.
Being from Louisiana, I have a certain affinity for hip hop and rap. It’s a part of our culture, like Cajun food or Mardi Gras. Even if there’s a track I’m not necessarily familiar with or wouldn’t purchase myself, I can appreciate the modern day poetry and lyrical craftsmanship that goes into it. Rhyming is hard, rhyming fast is even harder. Rhyming well, even harder. Anyone that can do that and keep a crowd entertained at the same time gets my vote.
I went to the first annual Jenkins User Conference yesterday, and all the Jenkins talk inspired me to do a step-by-step guide as a follow-up to my original Jenkins post, which many of you requested. If you’re an iOS developer working with a team of people, especially a team of beta testers, you’re going to want to get into this. Quickly.
Every couple of years in a developer’s life, we’re faced with the notion that we might need to change our workflows up a bit. Your favorite IDE gets a redesign, some new awesome tool comes out and even though you don’t really have any more room for awesome tools you keep hearing about it, etc. Such was the case for me with three things: Github, Jenkins, and TestFlight.
One of the biggest PITAs we frequently run into as iOS developers is image caching. HJCache is an excellent dropin solution for projects that need async images. And let’s face it, that’s pretty much every project.
Earlier today I began work on an iOS project that would best be suited by a Framework project template, so it can be easily dropped into existing and future projects rather than incorporating it directly into the codebase. After some googling, I realized in XCode 4 there isn’t really a way to do this type of project for iOS. Ah XCode 4, you giveth so much, and yet you taketh away.
Since GitHub released their amazing and fantastic new GUI tool for Mac today I thought I’d write a post about an open source project I’ve published there.
It’s called iTunes Connect Manager, and it was designed to be a simple drop-in addition to any iOS project that needs to use iTunes Connect to handle In-App Purchases and/or Subscriptions.
