If you’re running Mavericks then sadly the iOS 5 simulator is gone for good – both in Xcode 5 as well as Xcode 4.6.3. It appears that the Mavericks kernel is no longer compatible with iOS 5 any more, and we only have access to the iOS 6.0, 6.1, 7.0 and 7.1 simulators. To use […]
I’ve just released a new version of my P2 Header Ad plugin, adding the following features: added translation readiness added German Translation added Spanish Translation (thanks to Andrew Kurtis from WebHostingHub) verified WordPress 3.8 compatibility You can get the latest version simply by using the WordPress updates (under Dashbaord – Updates), or download it from … Read more
How to customise the Read More option in WordPress (inline and in code)
I wanted to test if a string has a value when it’s returned from Core Data. So I thought, the right way to do this was to see if it’s equal to nothing, like so: if ([myString isEqualToString:@””]) { // should be empty… but may not be } But to my surprise this didn’t work […]
Today I got a lovely request from Andrew over at WebHostingHub.com who asked if he could translate my P2 Header Ad plugin into Spanish. “Of course”, I thought – and then I realised that I knew not much about how to get a plugin translation ready. I knew POEdit of course, but how to make … Read more
Imagine you’re presenting a view controller in your storyboard via a Popover Segue: Simply drag from a button in your Main View Controller to your Other View Controller, and under segue select “Popover”. Works like a charm: the popover is presented, and if someone clicks outside the popover it is dismissed. Marvellous! Surely we should […]
Creating picker views is similar to creating table views: you supply an array of data for each component by conforming to the UIPickerViewDataSource protocol. A component is equivalent to a section in a table view, and each component can have several sections. You can’t set much of this up in interface builder other than add […]
New to iOS 7′s AVFoundation Framework is the speech synthesiser. It’s what Siri is using when he/she speaks to you. We can use this as well in our apps by passing a string into an AVSpeechUtterance object, which in turn we pass into an AVSpeechSynthesizer instance. Here’s how: – (IBAction)sayThis:(id)sender { AVSpeechSynthesizer *synthesizer = [[AVSpeechSynthesizer […]
