Archive - March 2014

Did you know that Apple doesn't offer a tablet OS "that lets you work and play"? Yeah, I wasn't aware of that, either. Fortunately, our long nightmare of not being able to work and play on the iPad is finally over with this past week's release of

FXForms

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Over the past couple of years, I've developed a small arsenal of tools that are incredibly important for me as an iOS developer. Some are pretty obvious: GitHub, Instruments, Reflector, and Spark Inspector, for instance. Others are less well-known, or more subtle: GitHub's Objective-C trending page, objc.io, and......

If you've been reading our weekly roundups for a while, now, you probably know that in addition to iOS development, the other thing I'm really passionate about is photography. I've been shooting at least a photo a day every day since Jaunary 1, 2013, and in that time I've learned a couple things that should be self-evident, but weren't necessarily to me at first.

Rule 1: Understand your tools and how they operate inside a...

ZSSRichTextEditor

The best article I ran across this past week didn't directly have anything to do with Apple, iOS, or Mac OS X. Instead, it was a look at the fall of QuarkXPress, initially the best desktop publishing application available for personal computers, from the perspective of one of their users. The article reminded me of the inherent tenuousness of being on top. Everyone is out to get...

KFEpubKit

Thankfully, with the release of Mac OS X 10.9.2, last week's SSL crisis is over, and we can get back to wringing our hands about the impending death of TestFlight. The good folks at Apptentive have a pretty comprehensive list of replacement services that you might want to check out. Of late, I have been using

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