Viewing profile — Zev

It does not require encrypted connections, although it does have extensions to indicate that future connections should occur over TLS (through the optional `tls` extension in IRCv3…

I can't speak to its accuracy, but, June 2013 wasn't yesterday. It isn't that old -- and it isn't like there's been a release of Photoshop in the past month and a half, so, it seem…

I still don't get why this has to be a full-sized TV. What if the AppleTV (sized as it is) had the sensors in it to detect motion? (Of course, I still don't see the appeal in using…

Neat. Playing with parsers is fun! FWIW, a similar tool exists that works with most C-style languages, `uncrustify`. Might be worth looking into as well? http://uncrustify.sourcefo…

Saying "Always rasterize" isn't necessarily the solution, either. Its actually pretty bad advice to follow all the time ;) I suspect (but can't confirm without the source code to t…

Re: 2: While its great to have a small image that doesn't require much I/O to read, "small" shouldn't only refer to file size. Instead, a "small" image should be one that has a sma…

It wasn't mentioned in the article, but, it is very important to note: CAGradientLayer is not GPU-backed. In other words, the comparison is between the CPU redrawing a gradient 60x…

Re: Your first point, the App Store uses delta updates now, so, it doesn't download/replace files that haven't changed.

Selected "I read multiple books a few times a week", but, I'm not sure if thats the best fit. I read for some amount of time every day, but, its rare for me to be on the same book …

The typeface in many new OS X 10.8 apps is Helvetica. The typeface of OS X is Lucida Grande. I bet this changes in 10.9. At least, for Retina machines. There's a reason why iOS use…

..sometimes programmers are just different and work environments can be rigid. No. Just, no. While I can totally relate to not wanting to have a 9-5 job (and even moreso when it co…

Try marking your storyboards as binary files in git. It worked pretty well for me the last time I was working with a designer and using xib files.

You can easily do without a protocol[1] -- NSKeyValueCoding doesn't require a protocol to be implemented anywhere. For example: @interface MYObject : NSObject @property (nonatomic,…

You designed an iOS app, not a Mac app. That it happens to live in the menubar doesn't actually mean very much ;)

Both Rails and Django will be here for a long time, regardless of what the current fad of the day is.

Why not use CFDictionaryRef and pass it along via toll-free bridging?

What do you get out of subclassing NSDictionary or NSArray that you don't get out of a category?

Can you give an example of some things that you subclass?

A lot of Apple stuff may be a black box but it is designed to be subclassed. Aside from a small number of top-level classes[1] UIKit isn't designed to be subclassed. When you subcl…

Mostly a really good list. My only nitpick is: RegexKitLite - Powerful regular expression support Use NSRegularExpression instead. It's built into the OS (in Foundation) as of iOS …

Cocoa Auto Layouts are what you're looking for: https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/UserE...

Only 5300/day and #5 has to be for a given category. Too low to be that far up in the App Store otherwise.

The project itself is the only thing that uses the NS prefix. The classes within the project have the (rather long and safe) prefix of "Logger".