First Impressions from Apple’s WWDC Keynote

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...

Alternatives to Apple’s iCloud Core Data Syncing

It’s no secret that Apple’s implementation of iCloud syncing for Core Data has issues. Check out episode 12 of Debug for a great discussion and check out the show notes for a number of links to blogs that go into even more detail. With WWDC around the...

A Very Useful Conditioner

I am talking about a neat developer tool from Apple for use on Mac OS 10.7 and later. It is called Network Link Conditioner. It is a preference pane that, when installed, will appear in the System Preferences application. Network Link Conditioner allows you to...

CocoaConf DC ’13

With tickets to WWDC getting harder to come by and services like WWDC Alerts coming together to help developers buy tickets before they sell out a number of smaller iOS and OS X development conferences have grown in popularity such as CocoaConf, NSNorth, NSConf, and...

Regime Change

Matt Drance, former Apple Evangelist, and founder of Bookhouse software has some great insights in his post titled Regime Change on the shake up at Apple yesterday. In case you missed the press release while dealing with the effects of Hurricane Sandy, here’s...