Finally Found the Error I’ve Been Looking for (or “OSX Error Code Lookup Tool”)
In a recent project, I kept receiving a -10000 error in the console when running my app. Quite frustrating to say the least since the error description was useless, and Google wasn’t any help at all either.
So I was completely thrilled to come across the OSX Error Code Lookup Tool. Download, compile, and plug in [...]
Color Me Crazy (or “When a Color Isn’t Just a Color”)
Ever need to use an image as a background, but can’t figure out how? It’s quite simple — colors aren’t always colors:
UIImage *patternImage = [UIImage imageWithContentsOfFile:[[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@”patternImage” ofType:@”png”]];
[myView setBackgroundColor:[UIColor colorWithPatternImage: patternImage]];
We are a Billion Fragments (or “Removing URL Fragments with NSURL”)
NSURL is a wonderfully powerful Cocoa object, bet there is at least one thing it leaves out, but I’ll show you how to fix that.
If I Had a Photograph of You (or “How to Cache Images in CocoaTouch”)
A quick note. Wanting to cache images in an iPhone app? Load the image using:
[UIImage imageNamed:]
if you use:
[UIImage imageWithContentsOfFile:]
the image will not be cached.