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O’Reilly’s selling Apple-related eBooks and videos at 50% off for Steve Jobs’ birthday

Click the photo to see O’Reilly’s deals page. Today is Steve Jobs’ birthday, and O’Reilly’s commemorating it with a 50% off sale on all Apple ebooks and videos. Just use the discount code DEAL when buying them from O’Reilly store before February 25, 2014 at 5:00 a.m. Pacific (GMT – 8), and you’ll be able […]

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iOS Developer Roundup: New edition of The iOS Apprentice, Validated text fields, Typhoon dependency injection framework, and lots of algos in Obj-C

The iOS Apprentice: Second edition for iOS 7 and Xcode 5 now available! If you want to learn iOS development and need a little structure to help you get started, I strongly recommend RayWenderlich.com’s iOS Apprentice, a set of four excellent tutorials written by Matthijs Hollemans. Each tutorial walks you through the construction and completion […]

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iOS Developer Article Roundup: An Editable UITableViewController, a Cancellable Asynchronous NSURLConnection, “Auto Layout in iOS 7” Tutorials, and NSError

Editable UITableViewController Here’s a UI pattern that appears all the time: In this pattern, you see a list of items in a table view — a master view. If you tap on an item’s cell or some control inside that cell, you get taken to a detail view where you can edit that item’s details. […]

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Staying Sharp: Maintaining Your Development Skills

Ours is a field where change is just one of those things you have to live with. The constant evolution of computers – from mainframes to the computing devices in our pockets that just happen to also be phones – along with the almost-daily introduction of new technology stacks, requires us to be constantly learning […]

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iOS Developer Roundup: Storyboards vs. Nibs vs. Code, Space Invaders and Sprite Kit, Key-Value Observing, and ZXingObjC

Debating Storyboards vs. Nibs vs. Code In Storyboards vs. NIBs vs. Code: The Great Debate!, you can watch a debate that took place in a Google+ hangout on October 1 between three developers over which way is the optimal way to build user interfaces. Cesare Rocchi argues for code, Tammy Coron takes the pro-nib argument, and Felipe Laso Marsetti sides […]

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iOS 7 Developer Tutorial-a-palooza: iOS 7 Sampler, a UIMotionEffect Tutorial, 3 UIKit Dynamics Tutorials, 3 Sprite Kit Tutorials, and a Text Kit Tutorial

With Apple moving over 9 million phones on the iPhone 5C / 5S opening weekend, all pre-loaded with iOS 7, and with iOS 7 adoption at 60% before last weekend, it’s a good time to start working on your iOS 7 coding chops. I’m working on my own tutorials for iOS 7 development, which will appear […]

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iOS Developer News Roundup: What’s New in Objective-C and Foundation in iOS 7, NSBrief, and My Appventure

What’s New in Objective-C and Foundation in iOS 7 The latest post on Ray Wenderlich’s ever-so-useful iOS development site at the time of this writing is What’s New in Objective-C and Foundation in iOS 7, which is the Reader’s Digest version of a chapter from their new iOS 7 by Tutorials book. It gives you […]