Tag: Cocoa

If you’re an engineer and use svn, but have not checked out mercurial do yourself a favor and do so. Basically, it is a kick ass source code control system that keeps everything in the working directory and supports distributed repositories. Can you say offline checkins? Sure, because there is no online! Everything is right… Continue reading Mercurial for source code management rocks

Recently helped John debug why a NSString returned from [UITextView text] was invalid after being returned by a method invoked via NSInvocation on a different thread. (There’s a mouthful) Anyway, I don’t know gdb very well, so some googling around and I found this cocoadev article on debugging autorelease. It helped a lot! I wanted… Continue reading Debugging iPhone memory releases