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I just read a paper written by Per Brinch Hansen. He is most commonly known in the IT world for his papers on concurrent programming theory. Actually, I wanted to formally read into Remote Procedure Calls and that is how I found his theories.
Interestingly, he wrote in 1993 to C.A.R. Hoare:
The 1980s will probably be remembered as the decade in which programmers took a gigantic step backwards… Continue reading
With regard to my recent posts I would like to point out two events that will be held in Germany in November. Both events focus on development for iOS 4 and are scheduled as a two-day workshop.
Day 1 will give an introduction to iOS 4 development, Objective-C in particular, and the development tools needed to write apps. Whereas day 2 will be more hands-on and will give attendees… Continue reading
I already mentioned in earlier posts that it is quite tricky when beginning with iOS to decide whether one has to release an object instance or not.
Sure, we have the golden rule number one:
If I use alloc, copy or new to create an object instance, I own it and need to call release as soon as I do not need it anymore (or autorelease).
This sounds simple, but… Continue reading
In the last few weeks I have seen quite a lot of different implementations how to customize the UINavigationController. When you are new to a programming language you tend to use snippets from newsgroups and blogs and often you forget to actually think about the semantics of the code. The UINavigationController examples have a huge spectrum from being correct to awfully wrong.
With this blog post there will hopefully… Continue reading
We released yet another (free) application in the AppStore: The Developer Experts App. The app will keep you informed about all Developer Experts events and will allow you to purchase additional course materials in the near future.
However, update 1 will introduce Push Notifications so that you will be pinged whenever something interesting happens in the world of Developer Experts. Push Notifications will notify you about… Continue reading
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