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. 

Oct 11, 2012

It has been about a year since Apple released ARC, and even if there is a lot of good information out there I still see some misconceptions, false myths and reluctances to adopt it . Because of that, I am going to write a set of posts about it, but focusing in explaining how it works under the hood and why some of the myths out there are not really true.

Sep 28, 2012

With the introduction of the retina displays, Apple implemented a few changes when loading images that allowed the SDK to look for the corresponding retina image (named with a @2x convention) automatically. This was a relief for developers, as they do not needed to change the code in their apps. All an iOS developer needs to do is provide the corresponding @2x images of the non-retina ones.

Sep 14, 2012

For the last 10 days I have been working in a new library to check iOS images on runtime. I will make another post to explain it in a future, but today I wanted to remark some oddities that I found when working so tightly with the UIImageView class (it is funny that I haven’t realized on most these oddities after almost 3 years working with them)

Aug 15, 2012

Today I am not going to explain anything new but to add a small patch to RestKit. If you still haven’t worked with RestKit before give it a try. It is a very useful library to manage connection to external APIs.