Feb 21, 2013

MVC stands for Model View Controller, and it is a pattern that allows developers to differentiate code depending on three different roles. It is extremely popular due to its simplicity and it is implemented in different ways in almost every single technology out there -in different ways though. MVC helps you making your code lot more reusable, maintainable and easier to extend. 

Jan 13, 2013

This week I have been delighted with a very attractive (and quite new) acceptance testing framework called “Calabash”. My experience in acceptance testing is limited, but Calabash quickly took my attention for a few reasons:

Nov 29, 2012

DRM (Digital Rights Management), is a set of access control techniques created to avoid illegitimate use of premium content. Any proper DRM solution should deny the ability to view, copy or share the protected content to any other hardware/software that the one that is has been designed for.

Nov 2, 2012

In my previous two posts about ARC (post I and post II) I have talked about the optimizations and how ARC can perform as fast (or even faster) as manual memory management. This is quite clear when working with simple alloc/retain/release examples because it is exactly equivalent to manual memory management but using C calls (which are faster). However, I haven’t explain how it does it when dealing with methods that return autoreleased memory. So, it is time to have some fun.

Oct 26, 2012

In my previous post I analyzed the fundamentals of ARC. Today, I am going to write a quick post about some general advantages, problems and myths around it. I warn you that I will not enter in details, but it will be useful as an introduction to the next (and probably last) post of the series.