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Every so often I run into people who tell me that web apps have gotten a bit of an unfair reputation–”they can be just as good as native apps!” they tell me. (Usually the “bad” reputation is the work of some villain hell-bent on walled-garden-domination.) For example, there are blog posts like this one from [...]
Everybody’s weighing in on the Sparrow acquisition. Marco says if you want great indie developers, pay them well. Eleza says “that’s what I did!”. Selligy says that Apple should do something. Matt says everbody should stop whining. It’s time for some sticker shock. Matt has the right idea when he says: Thanks for that $10. [...]
In collecting feedback on my previous post discussing the new hotness of NSIncrementalDataStore, I seem to have unexpectedly lit a fuse. On the one hand, that blog post has spawned a dozen new projects and has kept my inbox unusually full. On the other hand, it met an unexpected amount of resistance–not just to the new workflow for [...]
This is a real support request: Hi developer, I really hate how you have to pay for more minutes I was wondering if you could update to do surveys also as a way of paying? The mental model of this individual is astounding: How do I eat a survey, or use it to buy computing [...]
The Problem You may be interested in how to wire up or sync CoreData to a remote web service. There are plenty of frameworks to do this, like RestKit, RestfulCoreData, and various defunct libraries (CoreResource, etc.) The problem with these libraries is twofold: They assume things about your backend (like “It’s REST!” or “It has [...]
This is the talk I gave at CocoaCoders about cross-platform logging and analytics. Cross-platform logging and analytics View more presentations from Drew Crawford
By now, you’ve certainly heard about Siri. It’s a very cool piece of tech. So cool, in fact, that I think it represents a big leap for Apple. The narrative we got from Phil Schiller is that for years, the programmers have taunted users with the dream of voice recognition technology that actually works, and [...]
It seems like every time a new feature gets checked in, somebody fails to add it to the test target, and I get a linker error like this one: Apple Mach-O Linker (ld) Error: _OBJC_CLASS_$_CLASSNAME referenced from… The solution to this is not to just keep adding files to the test target. If you compile [...]
UI accessibility labels being randomly set to nil, even though you’re positive you set them in the .nib? User interface elements randomly don’t have the right accessibility name or accessibility value? Here’s a magical, 100% undocumented fix: Hit settings.app on the simulator In General, flip “Accessibility Inspector” to ON In the rainbow-colored floating Accessibility Inspector that appears, [...]
Apple made a lot of announcements today, and it’s going to take a lot of time to digest all of it. I did want to comment on what some people perceive to be the large number of startups that Apple has “outdated” today. Marco takes the right approach of basically saying that the pie for [...]
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