Hi folks – The Rails 3.2 upgrade is still forthcoming, but unfortunately it ran smack-dab into some unexpected turbulence. The upgrade is still forthcoming, along with a bunch of other neat stuff, but it’s just taking a little longer than expected. I’m sure you know how that goes :)
Aaron
What We’re Reading
- Let’s Build NSMutableDictionary – Mike Ash continues building Cocoa’s mutable collection classes from scratch, this time with NSMutableDictionary.
- PaintCode – A new vector drawing app for OS X that outputs code for inclusion in your iOS and OS X apps. Wow.
- New iPad’s most revolutionary feature is its battery – “Between the release of the iPad 2 last year and the announcement of the new iPad yesterday, Apple has nearly doubled the capacity of the battery, taking it from 25Wh to a massive 42Wh.”
- Unique Identifier Is Dead, Long Live Unique Identifier – Doug Russell shows you how to get a device-unique identifier for your apps on iOS 5.0 and above.
AUISelectiveBordersView
AUISelectiveBordersView is an easy way to add a 1px border to individual sides of your views. MIT licensed.
XYPieChart
XYPieChart is, as it is described to be, a simple and animated pie chart for your iOS apps. A very snazzy, simple control. MIT licensed.
ThumbnailPickerView
An iPhoto-compatible scrubber view for browsing thumbnails. ThumbnailPickerView displays a list of horizontally arranged thumbnails. As a subclass of UIControl it can be used in a toolbar (mimicking Photos.app), or anywhere else you might want to place it. MIT licensed.
HMLauncherView
Meet HMLauncherView, from Heiko Maass, our latest control of the week. HMLauncherView is another Springboard control, but it’s also so much more. You can host multiple HMLauncherViews in a single superview and move entities between different instances of the launcher view. The control is made available under the terms of the Apache 2.0 license.
Find out more, or check it out on YouTube first
UICircularSlider
A UISlider control that presents itself in a circle. GPL licensed.
FESSolarCalculator
Not our normal fare, but a super-cool class for calculating sunrise, sunset, dawn and dusk, and noon times for a given location and date. Useful for determining day or night settings, like night mode for a reading app, or auto-enabling flash for a camera app. MIT licensed.
