Mike Ash wrote a fantastic article about reimplementing NSObject. It’s really fascinating. From his post: The NSObject class lies at the root of (almost) all classes we build and use as part of Cocoa programming. What does it actually do, though, and how does it do it? Today, I’m going to rebuild NSObject from scratch, [...]
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Rack::CoreData – Automatically generate REST APIs for Core Data models right
An interesting project from Mattt to scaffold RESTful web services based on CoreData models using Rack. require ‘bundler’ Bundler.require # Rack::CoreData requires a Sequel connection to a database DB = Sequel.connect(ENV['DATABASE_URL'] || “postgres://localhost:5432/coredata”) run Rack::CoreData(‘./Example.xcdatamodeld’) In summary:• AFIncrementalStore: *poof* no client code.• Rack::CoreData: *poof* no server code.— Mattt Thompson (@mattt) July 24, 2012 View the [...]
SSPullToRefresh – Simple pull to refresh view for iPhone right
As I continue to dive into iOS development, I’m on the lookout for time saving Cocoa projects. Sam’s SSPullToRefresh is an easy, customizable way to add pull-to-refresh views like those made popular in Loren Brichter’s original Tweetie for iPhone app. SSPullToRefresh hides all the pulling and animating logic away, leaving you to implement what you [...]
MGTileMenu – pop-up tile-based contextual menu for iOS5 right
MGTileMenu is an innovative context menu for iOS from Matt Gemmell. Resembling Path’s oft imitated corner menu in some respects, it appears to be more contextual than navigational, as the screencast demonstrates: Matt’s introductory blog post provides a deep introduction on the design or you can grab the source on GitHub. The license requires attribution, [...]
INAppStoreWindow – A Mac App Store style Cocoa NSWindow subclass right
This is handy NSWindow subclass that lets you center the traffic lights (close, minimize, and zoom) or do custom drawing in the window’s title bar. INAppStoreWindow doesn’t use any private APIs, so it’s App Store friendly. It also supports ARC or non-ARC. The custom drawing is really simple. You just give it a block: [self.window [...]
Episode 0.7.8 – CocoaPods, MacRuby, and more with Eloy Durán
Wynn caught up with Eloy Durán, creator of CocoaPods to talk about the project, MacRuby, and his favorite Objective-C libraries. Items mentioned in the show: Eloy Durán, Ruby developer and creator of CocoaPods. CocoaPods, “the best way to manage library dependencies in Objective-C projects.” CocoaPods uses a Podfile to specify project dependencies. Eloy aspires to [...]
MBRequest – Easier API wrappers in iOS and OSX right
A good API wrapper should handle network transport, payload serialization/deserialization, and authentication, abstracting these details away in order to let the developer deal with the business domain of the API. Projects like Faraday, Requests, and others have made creating higher level wrappers much easier. MBRequest from Mobiata does the same for iOS and OSX: NSURL [...]
X-Callback-URL: URL specification for iOS interapp communication right
URLs are one of those things about the web that we often take for granted. As developers, we can request resources and send users to other destinations just by knowing a location on the Internet. The mobile landscape is a bit different. While most mobile applications speak Web, consuming REST-ful APIs and other web resources, [...]
Canabalt: Engine behind popular iOS game now open source right
In a blog post announcing their part in raising over $25,000 for charity, Semi Secret Software has released the source to Flixel iOS, the game engine behind their popular iOS title Canabalt. A port of Flixel, the Action Script Flash game framework, Flixel iOS handles texture atlas generation, particle rendering, collisions, and animated sprites. … [...]
kod: CSS3 themable, Node.js powered editor for OS X right
It’s a very Merry Christmas for Mac developers. Rasmus Andersson has open sourced Kod, the “programmers’ editor for OS X.” Built from the ground to feel like a native OS X app, Kod sports Chrome-style tear-off tabs and aims for full concurrency, taking advantage of additional CPU cores when loading files, performing syntax highlighting, and [...]
Hubcap – A GitHub client for Mac OS X right
We are a bit late to blog about this, but if you follow The Changelog on Twitter you would have seen tweets from us mentioning this project. On December 3rd we chipped in to back a Kickstarter project started by Erik Michaels-Ober to fund Hubcap, a proposed native Mac client for GitHub. Erik’s plan is [...]
GithubNotifier: Growl notifications for GitHub updates right
In Episode 0.3.5, Max wished for an app that would give him Growl alerts any time someone added a Homebrew formula to any Homebrew fork. Well, Clint Shryock has created just such an app. Github Notifier is a simple menu bar application for OS X that listens for GitHub updates in any of your repos [...]
OmniGroup Frameworks: Objective-C frameworks for Mac OSX and iOS apps right
The Omni Group, makers of wildly popular Mac and iOS products such as OmniFocus and OmniGraffle, want to share some of their code with you. The OmniGroup Frameworks are a set of Objective-C code libraries for both Mac and iOS that peform a wide range of common tasks. OmniFoundation includes a set of low-level objects [...]
PullToRefresh: Because the iPhone has no F5 right
Want to implement the nifty pull-to-refresh pattern made popular by TweetieTwitter for iPhone in your iOS project? Leah Culver has created PullToRefresh, a simple TableViewController for your UITableView. Source on GitHub
SimFinger – make awesome screencasts of your mobile apps on your Mac right
SimFinger is a screencasting tool from Loren Brichter aka @atebits, author of popular apps like Tweetie for the iPhone as well as the desktop. SimFinger is a Cocoa app for the Mac that adds some polish to your mobile app screencasts by providing: A frame that sits on top of the simulator and adds shine [...]
FoursquareX: Foursquare client for OSX right
Now you can be the mayor of your cube farm on Foursquare in style. FoursquareX is a sexy Foursquare client for Snow Leopard. Oh, and it’s open source, so go ahead and fork it and add your own features. [Source on GitHub] [Homepage]
MBCoverFlowView – open source Cover Flow for Obj-C right
Build fantastic iTunes-like scrolling views into your Cocoa apps. [Source on GitHub]