Unwrapping Optional Counts in Swift 3
We are VERY busy converting our Swift 2.2 code to Swift 3.0. I’ve been running into this problem a lot and thought I would share a quick tip (as of …
UITableView dequeueReusableCellWithIndentifier
Someone asked me about this the other day, so I thought I’d write a quick blog post about how to use dequeueReusableCellWithIndentifier vs. dequeueReusableCellWithIndentifier:withReuseIdentifier. dequeueReusableCellWithIndentifier In the past, when using …
Message sent to deallocated instance (Swift)
(Written as of XCode 6.1.1, iOS8) Man, these cryptic Swift errors can be frustrating! This week, I kept getting this deallocation error and could not figure out what was going …
Re-position UIBarButtonItem
If you’ve ever tried to re-position a UIBarButtonItem, you’ll know that it’s kind of a pain. This was the best way I could think of to do it. First, create …
Debugging Object is Dealloc’ed in Cocos2d
This is a good way to check to make sure your objects are dealloc’ed with Cocos2d. – (void)dealloc{ NSLog(@"Object has been deallocated"); } – (void)onExit{ [self …
Get Font Family Names
Here’s some really useful code to sort and list all the known font family names for iOS. for (NSString* family in [[UIFont familyNames] sortedArrayUsingSelector:@selector(localizedCaseInsensitiveCompare:)]){ …
All Your Exception Breakpoints Are Belong To Us
I came across this awesome XCode tip and could not keep it to myself. 1) Create an exception breakpoint. 2) Right click on “All Exceptions” and click “Edit Breakpoint”. 3) …
Property Cheatsheet in iOS
Even though I can’t count how many times I’ve used properties, I thought I would make a cheatsheet to cover the basic definitions. This article was the best one I …
Cookies with AFNetworking in iOS7
Recently, I had to hit a stateful internal API and needed to store an user authentication cookie. I couldn’t figure out how to do this in the AFNetworking documentation, but …
Some quick math behind Parse’s 1 million requests
Currently, Parse is free for the first million requests per month. Parse rocks and it’ll be a while before I hit a million. Wow this is awesome right? Hmm, not …
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