Open Source: Active Record For Core Data Library
If you’ve developed with Ruby On Rails or similar framework then you are familiar with ActiveRecord, and you are familiar with how useful ActiveRecord is. I remember thinking how cool it was when I first played with RoR and began using ActiveRecord.
For those unfamiliar with RoR here’s the Wikipedia definition for Active Record:
Tutorial: iOS Multithreading With Grand Central Dispatch (GCD) Basics
As a user it can be extremely frustrating if you’re using an application and you have to wait an extended period of time while the application updates.
Sadly this was pretty common when the app store was new. The devices were slower, the networks were slower, and many apps weren’t using multi-threading in places they probably should have. I remember becoming frustrated many times using an RSS reader, waiting for the article list to update, and then waiting again for the article to display.
News: Moai SDK Game Development Kit Made Available To All
A few weeks ago I mentioned the Moai SDK. An open source iOS game development kit allowing for development of iOS apps (and Android apps) in Lua. What I really liked about the engine that it has already been used in could be extended to support any functionality within the iOS SDK.
At that time Moai a limited beta, the beta has been extended now to support all developers.
Best Resources In iOS Development – July 10th 2011
Another great week has gone by, and if you are a regular visitor to this site you have probably noticed that I am now using a new theme. Hopefully this betters the user experience for everyone.
In the last week there were some great resources shared, those included a number of open source libraries relating to topics such as Core Text, web services, data storage, and user interface improvements.
Open Source: Easily Extensible Objective-C Math Parser Library
Math parsing libraries can be extremely useful whenever you want to evaluate a complex mathematical expression. In Objective-C you can use NSPredicate. If you want to extend the functionality of NSPredicate however, this can be extremely difficult.
I came across a math parser that provides many advantages over NSPredicate, and other existing math libraries with in my opinion the key feature being the ease at which you can register new functions.