Monday, April 14, 2014

cc -Osmartass

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I have to admit I am a bit startled to see pople seriously (?) advocate exploitation of "undefined behavior" in the C standard t...
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Saturday, April 12, 2014

Sophisticated Simplicity

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This quote from Steve Jobs is one that's been an inspiration to me for some time: [...] when you first attack a problem it seems real...
Saturday, March 15, 2014

The Siren Call of KVO and (Cocoa) Bindings

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The Call of the Cool I like bindings . I also like Key Value Observing . What they do is undeniably cool : you do some initial setup,...
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Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Looking at a scripting language...and imagining the consequences

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After thinking about the id subset and being pointed to WebScript , Brent Simmons imagines a scripting language. I have to admit I have ...
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Wednesday, March 5, 2014

Cargo-cult typing, or: Objective-C's default type is id

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In discussing some feedback to a chapter of my upcoming book , I was surprised to get the following code flagged: -objectAtIndex:(NSUInteg...
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Wednesday, January 8, 2014

codesign lies

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Just had a case of codesign telling me my app was fine, just for the same app to be rejected by GateKeeper. The spctl tool fortunately wa...
Thursday, January 2, 2014

Objective-C: TIOBE programming language of the year third time in a row!

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Actually: no it isn't, Transact-SQL got the honors . Apart from the obvious question, "Transact-Who?", it really should have...