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Public Transit in iOS 6
By now it is public knowledge that there will be no in-house replacement for routing via public means of transport in iOS 6. Indeed if you hold an iOS 6 phone (that somebody maybe has left in a bar)...
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Radar: View frame inconsistency using presentViewController +...
One of the takeaways from WWDC should always be a renewed promise to yourself and Apple engineers: “File better Radars”. With some time at my hands jettting back over the Atlantic Ocean, I prepared a...
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Radar: Block-based action handlers for UIActionSheet and UIAlertView
The second type of Radar I vowed to be filing more of following WWDC 2012 are so called “Enhancement Requests”. I have yet to see any of my previously filed requests be implemented in iOS, but it never...
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Radar: WWDC videos should be organized as iTunes U courses
The third kind of Radars I plan to file more are for new features. While the Apple bug reporter is mostly made for reporting and tracking bugs this is also the only way to formally file a feature...
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Radar: App- and Folder-specific Passcode Locks
I’m on fire! Never before have I filed so many Radars in a single day. This one aims to remove the need for components like my DTPinLockController which I used in iWoman. This is a Feature Request for...
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Radar: ARC releases UIColor prematurely
There’s a gotcha/bug if you’re using -[UIColor CGColor] to get a CGColorRef for use with CoreGraphics. I think several people have already documented this on their blogs, but I was having the same...
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Forbidden Fruits
A short while after the WWDC 2012 keynote, when Apple made the iOS 6 BETA publicly available, somebody tweeted in German that there are probably already more devices running iOS 6 than Android 4. I...
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Girls in Tech (iOS Edition)
We need more ladies in tech, it is as simple as that. Or as complicated. The statistics are not looking good and I’ve been wondering for a long time why they are not changing to the better. Or not...
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DTCoreText Case Study: NMSTC
Despite some advances in rich text support coming in iOS 6 my DTCoreText open source project continues to prove its usefulness. First and foremost it provides the ability to convert simple HTML text...
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Radar: Filevault2 uses incorrect keyboard layout for initial unlock
Fresh from our series “Another Day Another Radar” here’s one that stumped my associate Rene. Since I’m getting a knack in filing these I did the “quick file” for him, as rdar://11738458 and on...
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Linguan 1.1.1
The 1.1.1 version of anything is always something special. Linguan 1.1.0 brought the first new feature in the form of support for localizing XIB files. Linguan 1.1.1 now contains some hot fixes to...
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iWoman 2.0.8
iWoman is approaching the end of support for iOS 3. This update fixes a minor bug and adds import/export functionality to allow you to move to a new iPhone that is able to run iOS 4 or higher. Changes...
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Radar: Allow Overriding of User-Agent on UIWebView
Here’s another thing that I had discussed with an Apple engineer at WWDC. UIWebView at present does let you easily modify the user-agent header field that it sends to the server. We found this...
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CoreLocation Background Update Messaging
Two years ago I put together revolutionary chart that detailed the flow of delegate messages when sending an app into background. This was even featured by Erica Sadun of TUAW because it for the first...
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Podcast #39 – “WWDC, what next?”
Episode 39, recorded June 30th, 2012 News Apple sent all developers an email detailing some changes. App and In-App Catalog Reports Now Available Catalog reports provide you with extended information...
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Leap Second Attack
Comics mentioned that last night we would get more rest, exactly one second. Hardly worth noticing though, if it weren’t for several computer systems which seemed to have issues with suddenly finding...
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TWIT haunted by Cocoanetics
One day before the WWDC 2012 keynote a group of Austrians hired a car and drove north to Petaluma where the TWIT podcast studio is located. We have been long time fans of Leo Laporte and his...
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XBench: Apple Stock SSD versus Striped RAID
I purchased a current model MacMini (Mid 2011) to serve as a Continuous Integration server. I chose the one model that has 4 GB and 2 HDDs because the larger RAM certainly should benefit the overall...
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Who Wants Cocoapedia?
Two years ago I was more idealistic than today. That was when I created Cocoapedia (Oct 2010) and thought that if the place was there the contributors would come. Boy was I naive. The idea behind...
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You Don’t Need The Xcode “Command Line Tools”
When Apple made Xcode into its own app bundle it greatly simplified our lives as developers. This enabled incremental updates for the stable version can get from the app store. Also you get updates the...
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