Grand Central Dispatch 101

Apple has this tendency to hide the complex CS underneath it’s interfaces (i.e. Interface Builder and Core Data/SQL Lite). Grand Central Dispatch is one of those features that has a lot going on underneath the covers.

The Top Must Read iOS Newsletters

Lately I’ve taken to subscribing to newsletters to get my fix of news. The emails are usually full of well curated content and I prefer it over RSS and even Twitter, sometimes. With this, I’ve found a few relating to iOS that you might find useful too.

Benchmarking in Objective-C

Let’s explore a couple of different ways you can reverse an array in Objective-C and some different ways to benchmark the performance. This is more of an exercise in curiosity as to a quick and precise way to benchmark rather than to decide on the best way to perform a simple…

iOS Video Backgrounds

I’ve been seeing more and more of these nicely looping video backgrounds show up in big-name apps, especially on their login and onboarding…