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Barcode Anecdotes
I’ve been collecting interesting stories of my fellow iOS developers related to Barcodes and iOS. Anecdotes are the spice of life. You might not think it possible, but this 40 year old technology is...
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Major Downtime
Today, Apple users and developers are experiencing some major downtime. Apple services are known to experience stability problems at times. And there is the occasional intentional downtime for the...
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Implementing an In-App App Store
If you have an app like prod.ly, which shows a timeline of user’s messages you probably want interactive hyperlinks. In two previous posts I showed how I am customizing UILabel to customize hyperlinks...
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Recommended Reading
My publisher asked me which websites typical iOS developers are going to. So I asked my Twitter followers and compiled the results into this list. Websites The following list is sorted by number of...
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Make Money Socializing
Here’s a press release I’ve been working on. Awesome announcements from our startup ProductLayer! Vienna, Austria – ProductLayer announces that today, April 1st, the share holders are signing the...
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Radar: NSDataDetector Bug
This has been bugging me for quite some time, since some of my address book contacts are affected. NSDataDetector does not properly handle addresses which have more than 2 numbers with one slash....
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Hey, I’m Famous!
A while ago I found myself mentioned on two sites as being popular. I wanted to document this for posterity. Frenchman Vincent Daubery created GitHub Awards, which uses the GitHub APIs to determine a...
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Radar: CLGeoCoder Bug
Fun fact! Sometimes Apple engineers confuse dupes of Radars with the original ones: Engineering has determined that your bug report (20549548) is a duplicate of another issue (20553126) and will be...
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Radar: UITextView Scroll Position Bug
Working on an issue that has been reported for Notepad Classic 2007 (currently free on App Store) I found that UITextView has problems keeping the scroll position when showing or hiding the keyboard....
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Skipping Copy Phase Strip
If your app contains frameworks or extensions you are recently beginning to notice a new warning popping up when building for releases: “skipping copy phase strip, binary is code signed”. Here’s how to...
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Introducing Core Image
I published a section from my book Barcodes with iOS on DZone. My book is not only about barcodes but also gives short introductions to a plethora of other frameworks which you might not normally come...
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Apple’s App Analytics
Developers received mail from app inviting them to join the waiting list for their new app analytics service. Such a service is long overdue and several businesses are based solely on there not having...
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Retinized!
I admit that I have been jealous of those lucky people who could afford the luxury of staring into a Retina-resolution screen all day. Last week my ship came in and delivered not one but two...
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FOKUS KIND Medien acquires iWoman
Drobnik KG and FOKUS KIND Medien, Austria – We are announcing that effective June 1st FOKUS KIND Medien has acquired the iWoman iOS property. iWoman is a simple and intuitive app for women to keep...
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WWDC Pre-Show
I don’t like myself when I am grumpy. And I am grumpy when I am tired. Which is why I – if in possession of a WWDC ticket – I try to arrive in San Francisco a few days ahead of the conference. I hate...
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The WWDC Keynotes
Don’t believe what the blogs are telling you. What they have witnessed – and live-blogged about – was not the entire story. They only got to see one third of the whole story. Most people queue for the...
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WWDC 2015 Review
The 26th annual Apple Worldwide Developer’s Conference was held June 8th through 12th in the Moscone West conference center. It was my fourth attendance to the show, with only 2014 being a break in my...
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iOS Today
Three years ago, I last visited the TWiT Studio in Petaluma, California. Located one hour by car north of San Francisco, the “TWiT Brockhouse” is well worth visiting if you are a fan of the shows that...
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Core Image Barcode Erratum
Since iOS 7, Core Image contains several generators for 2D barcodes. While I was writing my book Barcodes and iOS, only the CIQRCodeGenerator was documented. Apple’s standard policy is that classes...
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Radar: ABUnknownPersionViewController
Apple is introducing a new contacts framework in iOS 9. The do so very aggressively to even replace view controllers from AddressBookUI.framework with their new implementations. Unfortunately not...
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