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I recently released the updated and improved iOS application for an application that I have been working on. The application is image heavy within its functionality. Whilst testing the application it became apparent that the implemented image caching mechanisms were not appropriate for an inherently image heavy application. I delved

I was recently asked by a friend for some insight into the costs of having a multi-platform (Android and iOS) application developed. I thought that this might be something that a number of people would be interested in. As such here is my answer in blog post form. Windows Phone

iOS push notifications are (in my personal opinion) suprisingly difficult to implement properly and debug. This is especially suprising given that Apple have provided such in depth documentation, and given that there are such an abundance of tutorials on the topic. The problem is that no single resource has a

This post forms part of my tidbits series, a series of short posts outlining things that I have discovered whilst building various Double Negative products. These posts seek to: * Remind me of technical intricacies (when I inevitably forget) * Hopefully help others build top quality products Re-register for APNS When building

Ten months ago I wrote an article about the lifecycle of the UIViewController. My context for writing that post was various issues that I had encountered whilst developing a product based around tabbed content. More recently I have been working on a project where I have encountered issues associated with

Don't Repeat Yourself (DRY) The Don't Repeat Yourself principle is one of the most important concepts that a software engineer has in his/her arsenal (in my opinion). I previously worked on a legacy PHP project whereby a complete disregard for DRY has resulted in a completely unmaintainable codebase. If

I am working on an iOS app for a product that I have been building. Throughout the process I have come up against some hurdles and have sought to resolve them using the (fantastic) knowledge base that is Stack Overflow. Moreso than when writing code for any other platform I

Over the past month I have been developing an iOS app for one of the websites that I own and operate. I wanted to share a few considerations that I encountered when investigating testing and iOS. Objective C has been around and developing as a language for an extremely long