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9 July 2012Use Your Loaf
Copyright © 2019 - K Harrison Privacy and Cookies Terms of Use, I recently posted about some of the common ways of using number formatters. In doing so I omitted to mention that is common to cache both number and date formatters in iOS applications and…
9 July 2012inessential.com
I have habitually declared my properties as nonatomic. Exceptions are extremely rare. Since atomic is the default, I have to do this: @property (nonatomic, strong) NSString *foo; But it occurs to me now that switching to atomic will not be a performance…
8 July 2012Ars Technica » Infinite Loop
In 1995, Steve Jobs gave a rare interview to Robert Cringely for a PBS special called Triumph of the Nerds to talk about the genesis of the personal computer. Most of the hour-long interview had been cut down to a few minutes to use for the three-part…
7 July 2012Planet GNOME
Some projects that I work with tend to autogenerate a lot of files, autotools projects in particular are very good at that. Most gnome software correctly adds all the autogenerated files to .gitignore files automatically, so git nicely ignores them and you…
6 July 2012Planet Mozilla
6 July 2012Slashdot
Back in May we discussed using Python, R, and Octave as data analysis tools, and compared the relative strength of each. One point of contention was whether Python could be considered a legitimate tool for such work. Now, Bei Lu writes while Python on its…
6 July 2012MacOSXHints.com
I was never satisfied with results of "Reduce File Size" Quartz filter when trying to make some PDFs smaller before sending them by e-mail. It made them too small, and the graphics were fuzzy. I eventually found where these filters are: …
5 July 2012Use Your Loaf
Copyright © 2019 - K Harrison Privacy and Cookies Terms of Use, Prior to iOS 5 it was not easy to style the appearance of common UIKit controls such as the navigation bar or the tab bar. It could be done but you had to resort to subclassing or create…
5 July 2012MySQL Performance Blog
I wrote one week ago about how to find duplicate indexes. This time we’ll learn how to find unused indexes to continue improving our schema and the overall performance. There are different possibilites and we’ll explore the two most common here. User…
30 June 2012