Sometimes iOS updates go awry. It may happen that the device hangs itself for good, refusing to activate or be recognised by iTunes. In that case, it’s time for a DFU reset, also known as Recovery Mode. Download an .ipsw file for your device from the Developer Centre (either a beta or the release version) […]
Today Xcode surprised me with an error message I hadn’t heard before: property’s synthesized getter follows Cocoa naming convention for returning ‘owned’ objects. At first I thought, “isn’t that a good thing?”, and after checking how I had defined a new property I was clueless why this was happening: @property (nonatomic, strong) Phrase *newPhrase; What […]
NSManagedObjects behave differently to NSObjects on many levels. If you’d like to add custom start-up behaviour in your NSManagedObjects, you’ll have noticed that overriding the standard init method isn’t working. Instead, we can use the awakeFromFetch method. This is called automatically when a managed object is retrieved from the Core Data stack: – (void)awakefrom { […]
I’ve just released a new version of my (totally unpopular) Disk Space Pie Chart plugin for WordPress. The update addresses the background colour of the pie chart which worked well with WordPress 3.7 and below, but now that we have a snazzy new colour scheme in the admin interface, I made sure it still looks … Read more
It’s f1f1f1 in hex or 241 241 241 in RGB. This is an off-white, light grey for better readability and remains the same no matter which admin colour theme you choose. http://wordpress.org/news/2013/12/parker/
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)
