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Dismissal Completion Handler
While working on an additional section for my book, I encountered a tricky situation. Pause for a moment and ponder how you would solve this: You present a modal view controller. Some action within it...
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Radar: Transition Coordinator set too late to be useful for unwind segues
This is an enhancement request that came to me when pondering how to execute code following the dismissal of a modal view controller. It’s filed as rdar://17915792 and on Open Radar. Summary If you...
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DTFoundation 1.7.3
This maintenance release for DTFoundation fixes our block-based action sheet and alert view for iOS 8 GM. Changes FIXED: [DTAlertView] Completion blocks for the buttons are not executed on iOS 8 GM...
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DTRichTextEditor 1.6.8 + DTLoupe 1.5.5
This update for DTRichTextEditor and DTLoupe hot fixes an issue with loupe rotation under iOS 8. DTLoupe 1.5.5 Changes FIXED: Rotation problem on iOS 8 DTRichTextEditor 1.6.8 Changes CHANGED: Update to...
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Radar: Xcode fails to update inline help from documentation comments
When researching documentation comments for a talk I’ll be giving at a conference I got stumped by this issue with Xcode 6.0.1. When I created a fresh project the documentation popup would be instantly...
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Book in Production
I’m happy to report that my book Barcodes with iOS has entered the production stage. Over the past few weeks I had some back and forth with a tech proofer, my developmental editor as well as a copy...
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Calendar: Fails to update events from mail update
The CEO of the startup I am part in insists on working on a PC and scheduling our weekly jour fixe with Microsoft Exchange. I knew something was amiss because whenever he changed the time of a meeting...
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Radar: Spotlight doesn’t find files if first criteria is file format
While working on my talks for Mobiconf next week, I was looking for a specific file. There I got stumped because Finder wouldn’t show me any files matching my search criteria. Oh well, another day...
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DTBonjour 1.1.1
This maintenance release for DTBonjour fixes a few minor issues. Changes FIXED: Various Xcode warnings FIXED: Issue when initializing on older iOS (<7.0) or OSX (<10.9) version CHANGED: run loop...
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From Barcodes to Product Information
On the evening before Mobiconf I visited Cocoaheads Krakow to tell them about my book Barcodes with iOS and ProductLayer. The talk gives a short introduction to the world of barcodes, then explains the...
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Mobiconf 2014
Polish company Miquido decided 4 months ago that they wanted to have a great conference in Krakow. Since then they worked hard to pull off a conference that easily measures up to older, more...
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All You Need to Know to Leverage Barcodes in Your Apps
This is the first of two talks i gave at Mobiconf 2014. The second one – about Open Source – is available to watch here. When Miquido asked me for proposals for two talks the first one was easy. Since...
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Best practices running an iOS open source project on GitHub
This is the second talk (of two) I gave at Mobiconf 2014. The first one – about barcodes – is available to watch here. Since I became full-time self-employed in January 2014 I have created and...
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iPhone 6+
I had the box containing my iPhone 6+ sitting on the counter for 8 days. I saved it as an incentive for myself, for after doing a good job at Mobiconf. The other reason was that I got it from my...
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AV Foundation: Code 39 Recognition Confusion
This is a bug report for AV Foundation. I noticed this problem when creating nice vector versions of the 1D barcodes used in figures in my book. The problem with this is that if you are scanning Code39...
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Xcode 6 drops armv7s
The latest Xcode update no longer builds for the armv7s architecture by default. Is it planned obsolesce or an oversight? The current Xcode 6 defines ${ARCHS_STANDARD} as armv7, arm64. Also whenever...
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BarCodeKit 1.3.0
The previous release to BarCodeKit was almost exactly one year ago, when I was just about getting started with writing my book. Changes FIXED: Assertion failure when draing barcodes into graphics...
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DTCoreText 1.6.14
This maintenance release for DTCoreText addresses one pressing issue with images represented in data URLs and a collection of a few contributions. Changes FIXED: Parsing @2x Image in data URL causes it...
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Proudly prod.ly
Disclaimer: I am the ProductLayer Developer Evangelist. My job is to convince you to build apps using our platform. Contact me if you have any questions. Have you ever tweeted about a product that has...
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German Siri now knows “Count-down”
Back in June, I requested that Apple let German-language Siri treat “Countdown” the same as “Timer”. Apple now implemented my feature request. It was somewhat annoying to me that I had to say “timer”...
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