In a previous post comparing options for storing custom fields in a database app, I considered the implications of each option on code design and clarity. Of course, another important consideration is the relative performance of the different approaches. How does...
Earlier this week GitHub announced Mantle, a model framework for Objective-C that is lighter weight than Core Data and well suited to implementing a model layer for an app that interacts with web services. The project is available on GitHub and also as a Cocoapods pod...
There have been several projects over the last few years here at Art & Logic where we’ve used the excellent JUCE cross-platform C++ application framework. It’s pretty widely used in the pro audio world, since it has extensive support for all the kinds...
The UICollectionView class that Apple introduced in iOS 6.0 is simply fantastic and has received some great praise and reviews at NSHipster, at Ole Begemann’s blog, and has iOS Devs tweeting their love of it. It’s only available on iOS 6.0 but Peter...
Last week on Twitter, I followed along from the sidelines as some developers I follow there were debating whether they wanted to still be writing code when they turned 40. As someone who passed that a few years (but not too many!) ago, and who also spends a good chunk...
