Dear iOS dev,
if you haven't already read Ole Begemann's article on Remote View Controllers (and part 2 and part 3), you should do so now. I think and hope this will be one of those bread-and-butter features of iOS 7, so now would be a great time to think of where XPC and remote views fit into your existing and upcoming apps.
Last week I made sure I have good backups of my iMac. I usually do, but I wanted to make doubly sure, as this weekend, I would nuke my disks to make a fusion drive on my iMac from 2011.
When the iMac was released in 2011 with the Z68 chipset, a SSD and a magnetic disc, I was excited, as I was sure Apple would exploit the caching part of the chipset, using 64GB of the SSD for caching. Alas, they didn't. So I had to move files to "strategic places" and try to get my computer to act as quick as it could, trying to have it rely more on the SSD than the spinning disc.
The announcement of the fusion drive made me very happy, as it seemed that Apple would 1-up the Z68. The fusion drive would keep what was used a lot on my SSD, and use both drives as one combined drive, so no more moving files around manually and symlinking ...
I had the weirdest problem: Safari couldn't load most HTTPS sites and many others. It hadn't for many days, even though Chrome, Firefox etc worked fine. Turned out it was all solved by deleting ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.security.revocation.plist
The past month or so I’ve reviewed a lot of code, and one issue is cropping up all the time: too much use of @property
Suppose we have the class AlbumViewController that extends UIViewController, and is used to display information about a music album. In the view, we want to display a title, and some artwork. So we make our storyboard, and drop a UILabel and UIImageView into a view controller of the class AlbumViewController. Now, how do we hook them up? We’ve got really four alternatives:
- Instance variables in the interface declaration
- Properties in the interface declaration
- Hidden ...
Dear Friends, Followers, and random people of the internet,
Christina and I are expecting, and we just found out yesterday: it's going to be a boy! 
The doctors think he'll arrive December 27th, we expect him to be a bit early.
We've been through all the usual tests, and everything looks good. He's alive an kicking! 
So we couldn't be happier, and it's going to be an amazing change of life.
Cheers
Christina & Niklas
