I am a cheater, baby!

Dear Apple and iOS,

I have to confess. I cheated on you. With the enemy. The whole story (in German) can be found here …

Dev Rocket

The Photoshop plugin for iOS developers and really a time saver. Thanks for this!

Dev Rocket Website

App Store release checklist

What Michael learned today

Never ever check for URLForUbiquityContainerIdentifier in a validateUserInterfaceItem call.

If Siri still is beta, than iCloud is alpha. That crap cost me two days until I realized that all me performance issues came from that. And do yourself a favor. Put those checks in a background thread. Especially at startup…

Fix Radar or GTFO

PLWeakCompatibility

Compatibility stubs to enable use of weak references with ARC on older OSes.

speedlimit

speedlimit is nifty preference pane for limiting the network bandwidth to test iOS Apps or Browsers under different speeds…

speedlimit Website

-fno-objc-arc

As recently discovered – the iCloud and the sandboxing do not work without enabling ARC; or at least not when GC is enabled. Of course this is sometimes only a little bit of work, in most cases a lot of work and sometimes simply impossible for some resources or frameworks yet.

But there is a solution. One can simply disable ARC for those files:

Add compiler flag -fno-objc-arc in Targets > Build Phases > Compile Sources.

Xcode and the Notification Center

Just discovered that Xcode uses the new Notification Center in Mountain Lion as well. Not sure yet, that I like that…