Before taking this advice, please see my follow-up. AFIncrementalStore (AFIS) is a brilliant bit of open source code from Mattt Thompson. It is a great help in synchronizing a remote data source and local data storage handled with Core Data. Its magic is turning the...
(Audio reactive sphere by Andreas Köberle.) For years it has been possible to write general purpose code for those data crunching cards almost all of us have in our devices by using tools like NVIDIA’s CUDA and OpenCL, but that power is rarely applied to non-graphical...
A good developer will be familiar with and use numerous libraries. If you can find a library that is a good fit for your problem, it’s probably a better solution than your first crack at it will be. And the library has been reviewed, debugged and optimized by a wide...
A new iOS release has been announced, and before the echo of the carefully selected exit music has stopped reverberating in Moscone West the pundits have already tweeted, posted and blogged their opinions. This is the sport of being an Apple fan. Has form outpaced...
Due to the requirements of a long-running project, I’ve been behind the times in C++ compiler technology. I’ll soon be emerging from this cave, which is why I’m glad to discover that Herb Sutter is again picking up Guru of The Week (GotW). I don’t think there are many...
