Thoughtful Pixel http://blog.thoughtfulpixel.com Handcrafting applications for iPhone and iPad Thu, 04 Oct 2012 05:58:53 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 <![CDATA[Thinking about Tent]]> http://blog.thoughtfulpixel.com/linked/thinking-about-tent#comments Thu, 04 Oct 2012 05:58:53 +0000 Ben Stovold http://blog.thoughtfulpixel.com/?p=514 ★

]]> I should have written about Tent already, but it Mike Gunderloy has saved me the trouble.

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Great news is that one of those projects, qui.lt, was featured on TechCrunch and was highlighted on the App Store by Apple as New and Noteworthy. More importantly, users love it. A huge congrats to the rest of the team; it’s nice to think I had some small part to play.

]]> http://blog.thoughtfulpixel.com/misc/new-and-noteworthy/feed 0 <![CDATA[Understanding the iOS Layer Drawing & Display Hierarchy]]> http://blog.thoughtfulpixel.com/linked/understanding-the-ios-layer-drawing-display-hierarchy#comments Tue, 24 Apr 2012 12:43:02 +0000 Ben Stovold http://blog.thoughtfulpixel.com/?p=495 ★

]]> drawRect: aside, inspired by this Stack Overflow post, Hari discusses no less than 5 other places where custom drawing code might be implemented.

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]]> http://blog.thoughtfulpixel.com/linked/understanding-the-ios-layer-drawing-display-hierarchy/feed 0 <![CDATA[Building an iOS Photo-sharing and Geolocation Mobile Client and API]]> http://blog.thoughtfulpixel.com/linked/building-an-ios-photo-sharing-and-geolocation-mobile-client-and-api#comments Mon, 23 Apr 2012 20:48:07 +0000 Ben Stovold http://blog.thoughtfulpixel.com/?p=488 ★

]]> What it says. Mattt‘s excellent step-by-step to building a full stack application (iOS client with a Rails server backend) using Heroku.

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]]> An informative overview of the design and development process for a popular utility app by it’s creator, Artem Lapitski.

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]]> An excellent twopart tutorial from Matthijs Hollemans that reviewing the most common causes of Objective-C runtime crashes and how to debug them.

Worth a look, even for the experienced developer.

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]]> In case you missed it: they’re here.

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]]> Mark Dalrymple compares isEqual:, isEqualToString: and compare: and finds them unequal… but in ways you might not expect! I didn’t know compare: would always return NSOrderedSame for a nil receiver, for example.

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]]> http://blog.thoughtfulpixel.com/linked/cocoa-comparisons/feed 0 <![CDATA[Simple and Reliable Threading with NSOperation]]> http://blog.thoughtfulpixel.com/linked/threading-with-nsoperation#comments Thu, 26 Jan 2012 12:24:56 +0000 Ben Stovold http://blog.thoughtfulpixel.com/?p=463 ★

]]> Useful tech note from Apple about navigating some of the murkier waters of concurrency using NSOperation. Contains this great explanation of how GCD relates to NSOperation:

… these two technologies complement each other nicely. GCD is a low-level API that gives you the flexibility to structure your code in a variety of different ways. In contrast, NSOperation provides you with a default structure that you can use for your asynchronous code. If you’re looking for an existing, well-defined structure that’s perfectly tailored for Cocoa applications, use NSOperation. If you’re looking to create your own structure that exactly matches your problem space, use GCD.

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]]> http://blog.thoughtfulpixel.com/linked/threading-with-nsoperation/feed 0 <![CDATA[Disconnect]]> http://blog.thoughtfulpixel.com/linked/disconnect#comments Sat, 24 Sep 2011 13:33:12 +0000 Ben Stovold http://blog.thoughtfulpixel.com/?p=454 ★

]]> Excellent advice from Numar Faraz:

Life is pretty awesome when you live it outside.

Four weeks ago I had the privilege of becoming a father to a beautiful little girl named Holly. Awesome indeed.

This blog lives on, but apologies if my updates continue to be erratic as ever…

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