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.
With the new iOS Data Storage Guidelines that arrived with iCloud and iOS 5, it’s muy importante to pay attention to where you place any preloaded data and file caches. The Documents directory is now only for data that’s been initialized by the user, an important distinction.
Last week I started a new web-based app project that requires a couple of JavaScript files to be bundled in with the app and run locally in a UIWebView. After getting everything prepped, I ran the project and expected to see cool stuff. No cool stuff appeared.
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.
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.
Earlier this morning I ran into an issue with XCode 4 crashing every time I tried to do anything with a certain project: clean, build, run, etc. I tried rebooting, running every single clean script in Onyx, and consulting the Apple forums.
