In this series I’ll show you how to create Popovers on iPad. They’re fairly easy to create once you get the hang of the inner workings of the UIPopoverController. I’ll show you how to create basic Popover in code and in your Storyboard, and we’ll discuss how you can retrieve data from a Popover when … Read more
In this screencast I’ll show you how to make an iPhone storyboard display as an iPad storyboard in Xcode 5.1’s Interface Builder. Under the hood a UIStoryboard is just an XML file, and with a small tweak we can make Xcode display it like an iPad or an iPhone. This is a good strategy if … Read more
In this series I’ll show you how to use iCloud in your iOS apps. We’ll discuss how to setup Xcode and your app, including App ID and Provisioning Profiles and I’ll demonstrate how to use all three flavours of iCloud: Key Value Storage, Document Storage and iCloud with Core Data. The rest of this series … Read more
In this screencast I’ll show you how to dismiss the iOS Keyboard, which is commonly brought up by a UITextField – but doesn’t want to leave easy once summoned. It’s easy to overlook a step in this procedure, so I thought a screencast is in order. We’re discussing two dismissal options here: when the DONE … Read more
In this screencast I’ll show you how to embed YouTube and Vimeo videos into your WordPress posts. There’s no need to copy and paste code snippets and position them anymore, thanks to a technology called oEmbed (sometimes called auto embed). WordPress parses the URL to your videos and adds the code needed to display those … Read more
In this screencast I’ll show you how to power an NSTableView using code. I’m referencing this article for code snippets and details: http://pinkstone.co.uk/how-to-populate-an-nstableview-in-code/ I’ve also made a “no-code” version on how to populate an NSTableView using an Array Controler and Cocoa Bindings here: http://pinkstone.co.uk/how-to-bind-an-nsarraycontroller-to-an-nstableview/ Enjoy! https://wpguru.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/podcast/316-NSTableView.mp4Podcast: Download (Duration: 15:29 — 90.5MB)
In this screencast I will show you how to bind a Table View to an Array Controller in Cocoa, using Xcode 5.1 and OS X Mavericks. We’re using Core Data to save our entries and – check it out – we’re not writing a single line of code! Cocoa Bindings is one of the most … Read more
In this screencast I will show you how to tear down your Core Data Stack. Documentation on this topic is a little sketchy to say the least. We’ll create a new Master/Detail app and implement a button that will remove the store file and reset the entire stack – without nasty error messages or app … Read more
