Monthly update #0281 • September 2013
Monthly update 281 • September 2013 • 2013-09-01 - 2013-09-30
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The Kill List by Frederick Forsyth
In Frederick Forsyth’s The Kill List, a gripping espionage thriller, a mysterious U.S. agency called TOSA is on a mission to hunt down threats to national security.
Monthly update #0280 • August 2013
Monthly update 280 • August 2013 • 2013-08-01 - 2013-08-31
Monthly update #0279 • July 2013
Monthly update 279 • July 2013 • 2013-07-01 - 2013-07-31
World War Z
World War Z (2013), directed by Marc Forster, shows a fast zombie plague. Brad Pitt plays Gerry Lane, a former UN worker pulled back to help. He flies from city to city. Mireille Enos acts as his wife Karin, who waits at home.
Monthly update #0278 • June 2013
Monthly update 278 • June 2013 • 2013-06-01 - 2013-06-30
Inferno by Dan Brown
Dan Brown’s Inferno thrusts Harvard symbolist Robert Langdon into a race against time in Florence, waking with amnesia to stop a bioengineered plague linked to Dante’s Inferno.
Monthly update #0277 • May 2013
Monthly update 277 • May 2013 • 2013-05-01 - 2013-05-31
Monthly update #0276 • April 2013
Monthly update 276 • April 2013 • 2013-04-01 - 2013-04-30
Monthly update #0275 • March 2013
Monthly update 275 • March 2013 • 2013-03-01 - 2013-03-31
Monthly update #0274 • February 2013
Monthly update 274 • February 2013 • 2013-02-01 - 2013-02-28
Monthly update #0273 • January 2013
Monthly update 273 • January 2013 • 2013-01-01 - 2013-01-31
Monthly update #0272 • December 2012
Monthly update 272 • December 2012 • 2012-12-01 - 2012-12-31
KVC Collection Operators
The article discusses Key-Value Coding (KVC) Collection Operators in Objective-C, which provide a concise, Ruby-like syntax for performing aggregate operations on collections using valueForKeyPath:.
Monthly update #0271 • November 2012
Monthly update 271 • November 2012 • 2012-11-01 - 2012-11-30
A Wanted Man by Lee Child
In A Wanted Man, Reacher hitches a ride with kidnappers, then joins the FBI to pursue them after a roadside murder in Nebraska.
Monthly update #0270 • October 2012
Monthly update 270 • October 2012 • 2012-10-01 - 2012-10-31
AddressBookUI
The Address Book UI framework in iOS, used alongside AddressBook.framework, provides controllers for managing contacts but includes a uniquely valuable function, ABCreateStringWithAddressDictionary(), which formats address components into a localised string.
Monthly update #0269 • September 2012
Monthly update 269 • September 2012 • 2012-09-01 - 2012-09-30
Spy Game
Spy Game (2001), directed by Tony Scott, is a sharp and thrilling espionage film that keeps you hooked. Robert Redford is outstanding as Nathan Muir, a seasoned CIA operative racing against time to save his protégé, Tom Bishop, played with intensity by Brad Pitt.
Monthly update #0268 • August 2012
Monthly update 268 • August 2012 • 2012-08-01 - 2012-08-31
CFBag
The article explores the CFBag and CFMutableBag Core Foundation types, which implement a bag (multi-set) data structure, allowing multiple occurrences of elements with associated counts.
CFStringTransform
NSString and its toll-free bridged counterpart CFMutableString in Foundation and Core Foundation are highlighted for their exceptional Unicode handling, with CFStringTransform enabling powerful string transformations like stripping diacritics, naming Unicode characters, and transliterating between scripts such as Latin, Cyrillic, and Hiragana.
Monthly update #0267 • July 2012
Monthly update 267 • July 2012 • 2012-07-01 - 2012-07-31
Brave
A Bridge Too Far (1977), directed by Richard Attenborough, shows Operation Market Garden. This Allied plan in 1944 aimed to seize bridges in the Netherlands to end the war fast. It failed. The film uses a large cast.