Archive - May 2014

With one week until WWDC, the rumor mill is continuing to churn out some of the oddest grist I've seen in recent memory. First, there are the entirely logical and believable rumors, like that Apple will be updating the look and feel of OS X to more closely resemble iOS 7 (well, iOS 8, I suppose).

Then there are the perennial favorites, like Apple adding NFC to the ne...

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WWDC starts two weeks from Monday. Are you going to be in San Francisco for that week? Let me know, I'd love to see as many people who read Cocoa Controls as possible! I'll be in the Bay Area from Sunday, June 1 to Friday, June 6.

Best,
Aaron

What We're Reading

• Design
  • iOS HIG is now available on iBooks
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Apple's buying Beats? For $3.2 billion? What?! It begs the question why Apple would be interested in purchasing a nascent streaming company instead of one of the bigger dogs, like Rdio or Spotify, but I'm sure Tim Cook et al have their reasons. Ostensibly the purchase price can't matter that much. So it must be something else. Beats also has a popular line of hardware, and two of the b...

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Last week, an article entitled Programming Sucks made the rounds in my circles. If you haven't seen it yet, I highly recommend dropping everything and spending the next 15 minutes reading it. Although it adopts a somewhat tongue-in-cheek, hyperbolic attitude towards the failings of our craft, there is enough truth in passages like the following to make me simultaneously laugh, cry, and die a little inside:

You i...

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update: Brent is now maintaining a canonical list of all Vesper Sync Diary entries.

In case you've missed any part of Brent Simmon's fantastic series of articles on adding Core Data sync support to Vesper, I've taken the trouble of rolling up links to all of the articles below. I hope they're as useful for you as they've been for me.