Posts

All the articles I've posted.

• UIAppearance for Custom Views

  Published: 12 Feb, 2013

  • 4 min read

  Learn how to properly implement UIAppearance in custom views, including important gotchas about setter tracking and initialization patterns.

• Hacking Block Support Into UIMenuItem

  Published: 17 Jul, 2012

  • 12 min read

  Implement block support for UIMenuItem by swizzling the responder chain to enable cleaner API patterns.

• Using Subscripting With Xcode 4.4 And iOS 4.3+

  Published: 11 Jul, 2012

  • 2 min read

  Use Objective-C's modern subscripting syntax with Xcode 4.4 and iOS 4.3+ through a clever header-only hack that enables array[index] notation.

• Pimping recursiveDescription

  Published: 1 Jul, 2012

  • 2 min read

  Enhance UIView's recursiveDescription to clearly show view controller hierarchies and containment relationships for easier debugging.

• NSURLCache Uses A Disk Cache As Of iOS 5

  Published: 10 Apr, 2012

  • 3 min read

  Discover how NSURLCache in iOS 5 now automatically implements disk caching to a SQLite database based on Cache-Control headers.

• Moving On... Or How Waiting For A Visa Was The Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me.

  Published: 6 Apr, 2012

  • 4 min read

  After months of waiting for a US visa, I share my journey from freelance to full-time indie developer and the creation of PSPDFKit.

• Don't Call willChangeValueForKey Unless It's Really Needed

  Published: 5 Apr, 2012

  • 4 min read

  Learn why willChangeValueForKey and didChangeValueForKey are unnecessary when using setter methods for KVO in Objective-C.

• Reboot

  Published: 4 Apr, 2012

  • 1 min read

  This post marks the reboot of my blog where I plan to share iOS development insights and personal thoughts.