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DTFoundation 1.6.1
This maintenance release of DTFoundation fixes a few bugs. Changes FIXED: Typo in DTFolderMonitor causing build to fail in some build scenarios FIXED: DTSidePanelController panel jumping in rare cases...
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DTCoreText 1.6.10
This maintenance release of DTCoreText fixes some minor issues. I’m releasing it in preparation for a maintenance release of DTRichTextEditor. Changes FIXED: 64-bit macros for creating an NSNumber from...
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DTRichTextEditor 1.6.6
This is a maintenance release for DTRichTextEditor. It contains only updates for the involved submodules. DTRichTextEditor 1.6.6 CHANGED: Updated DTLoupe to 1.5.4 CHANGED: Updated DTCoreText to 1.6.10...
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DTBonjour 1.1.0
DTBonjour is a convenient wrapper that lets you send NSObjects over a Bonjour connection. This is the first version of DTBonjour that has added features over the initial 1.0 release. Changes FIXED:...
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Peer Assembly acquires Linguan
Drobnik KG, Austria and Peer Assembly Ltd., Ireland – We are announcing that effective today Peer Assembly has acquired the Linguan Mac app. Linguan is a Mac-based tool for comfortably editing...
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Looking Back and Forward
The older you get the quicker a year passes it seems. 2013 was a good year for us at Cocoanetics. Not really exceptional, we’re still waiting to get our great chance. But we cannot complain either,...
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Nest Protect
The regional government of Lower Austria is currently doing a promotion where you can get smoke detectors at a discount. They are doing that to nudge more people to become interested in securing their...
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Happy New Year, Young Steve Jobs!
When toymaker Legendary Toys announced that they’ll do a new run of Steve Jobs action figures I know that I had to have one. There once was a very life-like “Old Steve Jobs”, but they got legal...
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Assuring Documentation Completeness
For your open source projects you want to make sure that pull requests you merge don’t destabilise the project. Having a large number of unit tests in combination with a Continuos Integration platform...
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Q&A: Seconds Since my Birthday
Julia asks: How do I get Objective-C to display the number of seconds since my birth? When you often gnaw on complex and frustrating questions – like I often do – it is rather refreshing to work out a...
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Passbook Event Ticket Relevancy Issues
While experimenting with PassKit I found some weird behavior which I believe might be a bug, or two. Passes can have a date and locations where they are relevant. For event tickets – according to the...
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DTMarkdownParser 0.2.1
This bug fix release fixes a few minor issues on DTMarkdownParser. Changes FIXED: Incorrect selector checked for end of tag messaging FIXED: Hyperlink inside emphasized text not recognized ADDED:...
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Mysterious Sudden Twitter Fame
Monday afternoon, in the Cocoanetics offices. Colleague René is discussing with us an approach how to centralize some code without inheritance and is drawing on the whiteboard. Suddenly my iPhone...
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Radar: Aztec and PDF417 Core Image Generators documentation missing
While researching for my book “Barcodes and iOS” I was looking at the CoreImage generators for barcodes. iOS 7 supports generating QR, Aztec and PDF417 barcodes via CoreImage generators. But for the...
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From Barcodes to ProductLayer
One fine day, late summer 2013, I noticed that Apple had added a ton of new functionality to iOS, in particular related to barcodes. This set a train of thought in motion, the fruits of which are just...
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Urban Airship Commander 1.2.0
After a very long time we are able to release an updated version of Urban Airship Commander (with iOS7 support), our app for easily sending push notifications via Urban Airship. So people and...
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Google Analytics Alternatives
We use Google Analytics in some of our apps, but lately some people have grown dissatisfied with it. In particular non-technical people find it confusing how data is being presented. We iOS engineers...
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ABC Testing Banners
Recently we announced that we are starting pre-registrations for developer accounts for our Product Layer project. We bought a few thousand impressions on Ray Wenderlich’s well-known tutorial website....
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Read my Book!
For the past four months I have been working almost exclusively on my Book Barcodes and iOS 7, which is why there have been only very few tutorial blog posts on Cocoanetics.com. Now the first fruits of...
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Printing to Thermo-Labels
A few days ago I largely finished chapter 5 of my book where I explain how to print a sheet of QR stickers as well as individual serial number barcodes to roll-feed printers. The latter is a new...
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