iOS
Malware on the (Chinese) App Store
Here is a comment I wrote regarding the recent discover of apps containing malware on the Chinese App Store. 1. This is the first such event in over 7 years (and Billions of downloads) of the App Store’s existence, unlike the almost daily occurrence on other platforms. 2. You correctly didn’t echo the false and
iOS, Mac OS X
Solving iTunes 3014 Error
For whatever reason, probably because I do iPhone development and am always installing “stuff” on my computer and iOS devices, I’ve run into the dreaded iTunes 3014 error consistently when trying to restore my iPhone/iPad to put a new OS on it. I swear I tried this before and it didn’t work but I just
iOS, Programming
Encoding a URL in iOS 9
The typical way to encode URLs (e.g. turn spaces into %20) was to use NSString’s stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding As you may have noticed, that method has been deprecated in iOS 9. You now need to use stringByAddingPercentEncodingWithAllowedCharacters:NSCharacterSet which takes an NSCharacterSet as it’s argument. What NSCharacterSet am I supposed to use you may ask. I recently ran into
iOS, Mac OS X, Programming
Ctrl-drag to Create Outlets in Custom Views
If anyone can tell me why Xcode (I’m using Xcode 7 beta 5) works this way, I’d greatly appreciate. I have created custom table view cells in the past and I’ve always control-dragged from my storyboard into the custom class to create the outlets. So, when I went to create outlets for a custom (ui)view
Programming
WordPress Menu Button on Mobile
A quick note regarding WordPress and its Menu button on mobile devices (mobile Safari for sure, others possibly). I’ve been trying to update this site a little and added a Books page to highlight the book I’m currently reading, along with books I’ve read over the last year. I decided to track the books using
iOS, Programming
Gesture Recognizers in iOS 9
I don’t code nearly as much as I’d like to, so keeping up-to-date is always a major challenge. I’m still trying to get up to speed on all the great iOS 8 updates with iOS 9 is right around the corner. So, this is probably not news to you but it was news to me. Prior
Garmin, iOS, Triathlon
Oh Garmin…
I’ve been meaning to write out this for a while but this past week finally spurred me into action. It’s been a trying week for some if not all (tri)athletes out there, well, the ones that use a Garmin device, which is just about all of them. Actually, now that I think about it, I
iOS
iOS 9 beta 4 OTA
Just a quick note if you are having difficulties installing the new (released July 21) iOS 9 beta 4 on your device via OTA (over-the-air), which prevents you from having to do a Restore. You need to remove any “beta” profiles or WatchOS profiles that might be installed. If you have either of these, delete