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11th May, 201019th March, 2013 Dave

Adding Convenience Methods to NSFetchedResultsController via Categories

Technology

One really useful feature of Objective-C is the ability to extend an existing class without the need to sub-class via inheritance.  This means that existing

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10th May, 2010 Dave

A Magical and Revolutionary Product is Coming…

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A Magical and Revolutionary Product is Coming…

It’s 10th May, and the iPad PreOrdering has commenced in the UK.  At 1:30am I successfully placed an order for the iPad 64GB WiFi +

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6th May, 201021st March, 2013 Dave

Designing a Protocol for the Group Edit View Controller

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Designing a Protocol for the Group Edit View Controller

In my last post, I decided to remove my Singleton object in preference for passing the `NSManagedObjectContext` around between view controllers.  In my application, I

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5th May, 201015th February, 2012 Dave

Revisiting the Core Data Singleton

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Whilst I’m sure the idea of a Singleton for application wide variables is going to be good one, I must say that I’ve revisited this

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29th April, 2010 Dave

Moving Core Data to the Singleton

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[UPDATE:] You might like to read Revisiting the Singleton to see how my opinion has changed on this. Now we’ve established the principle of using

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28th April, 2010 Dave

Application Wide Variables and Helpers: The Singleton

Technology

One dilema when writing an app is where to put variables that contain the data for the application.  Traditional global variables are not a good

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27th April, 2010 Dave

Adding a Navigation Controller by Hand

Technology

Ok, time to get my hands dirty, this time with my own application.  First off, although the app is going to be using a Navigation

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27th April, 201017th January, 2011 Dave

Getting Started with iPhone Development

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Getting Started with iPhone Development

Ok, so first up I signed up for the iPhone Developer Programme.  I paid my $99, because I wanted to get to look at iPhone

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27th April, 201017th January, 2011 Dave

A Little Bit of History About Me

Life

I’m a long time developer.  Now approaching 42 years of age, I’ve been writing code since I was 18.  Perhaps earlier if you can count

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27th April, 201017th January, 2011 Dave

A Newbies Journey in Developing Apps for the iPhone

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This is the start of a journey.  I’m about to venture into the world of iPhone application development.  I have no intention of making a

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