Author Archives: idz

About idz

A professional software engineer dabbling in iOS app development.

Added Online Resources Page

Posted on May 4, 2011 by idz

I’ve just added a new page to this site: Online Resources for iOS developers. If you are not already familiar with them, the videos posted by Stanford University are worth a look. They are available on iTunes and YouTube. I … Continue reading →

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Quick Performance Measurements

Posted on May 3, 2011 by idz

A quick and easy way to measure the performance of a piece of iOS code is to dig down below all the Cocoa Touch stuff and use the low-level mach_absolute_time. This call returns a tick count that can be converted … Continue reading →

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Handy UIKit Debugging Functions

Posted on May 3, 2011 by idz

I don’t know how many times I had typed something like before I discovered that UIKit has the following handy string conversions functions Reference UIKit Function Reference

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