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Monthly update #0282 • October 2013

Monthly update 282 • October 2013 • 2013-10-01 - 2013-10-31

2013-11-04 17:00 Monthly Updates

Iceland Day 11

Day 11 of 11 to Iceland together with my brother.

2013-10-26 17:00 Trips

Iceland Day 10

Day 10 of 11 to Iceland together with my brother.

2013-10-25 17:00 Trips

Iceland Day 09

Day 09 of 11 to Iceland together with my brother.

2013-10-24 17:00 Trips

Iceland Day 08

Day 08 of 11 to Iceland together with my brother.

2013-10-23 17:00 Trips

Iceland Day 07

Day 07 of 11 to Iceland together with my brother.

2013-10-22 17:00 Trips

Iceland Day 06

Day 06 of 11 to Iceland together with my brother.

2013-10-21 17:00 Trips

Iceland Day 05

Day 05 of 11 to Iceland together with my brother.

2013-10-20 17:00 Trips

Iceland Day 04

Day 04 of 11 to Iceland together with my brother.

2013-10-19 17:00 Trips

Iceland Day 03

Day 03 of 11 to Iceland together with my brother.

2013-10-18 17:00 Trips

Iceland Day 02

Day 02 of 11 to Iceland together with my brother.

2013-10-17 17:00 Trips

Iceland Day 01

Day 01 of 11 to Iceland together with my brother.

2013-10-16 17:00 Trips

NSError

NSError is Cocoa's way to handle errors without exceptions. It tells about failures with a code, domain, and userInfo dictionary.

2013-10-15 17:00 Development

Key-Value Observing

Key-Value Observing (KVO) has an ugly, wordy API, but it is one of Cocoa’s most powerful features.

2013-10-08 17:00 Development

Monthly update #0281 • September 2013

Monthly update 281 • September 2013 • 2013-09-01 - 2013-09-30

2013-10-07 17:00 Monthly Updates

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.

2013-09-20 17:00 Books

Monthly update #0280 • August 2013

Monthly update 280 • August 2013 • 2013-08-01 - 2013-08-31

2013-09-02 17:00 Monthly Updates

NSHashTable & NSMapTable

NSHashTable acts as a general version of NSSet. It is mutable, holds weak references, can copy items on input, and handles arbitrary pointers using pointer identity for equality and hashing.

2013-08-20 17:00 Development

Monthly update #0279 • July 2013

Monthly update 279 • July 2013 • 2013-07-01 - 2013-07-31

2013-08-05 17:00 Monthly Updates

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.

2013-07-18 17:00 Movies

NSPredicate

NSPredicate is a Foundation class that defines logical conditions to fetch or filter data. Its syntax mixes SQL WHERE clauses with regex for expressive queries on collections.

2013-07-16 17:00 Development

NSExpression

NSExpression is a class in Cocoa that simplifies complex data tasks. It evaluates mathematical expressions, such as 4 + 5 - 2**3, which gives 1.

2013-07-09 17:00 Development

Monthly update #0278 • June 2013

Monthly update 278 • June 2013 • 2013-06-01 - 2013-06-30

2013-07-08 17:00 Monthly Updates

NSEnumerator / NSFastEnumeration

Enumeration makes computation powerful by applying logic to collections.

2013-07-02 17:00 Development

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.

2013-06-27 17:00 Books