An introduction to MarkdownLog - an open source .NET library designed to produce Markdown formatted log files

The UISwitch's UIControlEventValueChanged event is pretty useless if you'd like to get a notification only when the switch value actually changes.

This tip shows how to parse JSON response received from a web service into an NSDictionary object.

A short guide on how you can style and customize the appearance of you QML controls in a CSS-like way

How to add an fade-in message to your iPhone app in 5 minutes

Finally iOS developers get a new programming language as advanced as C# and Java

As a way to learn Swift I decided to have a play with Sprite Kit. One of the first things I did was to create a subclass of SKSpriteNode. This has a very handy initializer:init(imageNamed name: string) (in Swift)-(instanceType)initWithImageNamed:(NString*)name (in Objective-C)I then derived from thi

Build Flappy Bird with jQuery and 100 lines of Javascript

When you add additional layers to a UIView, those new layers don't animate in the same way that the UIView's Backing Layer does. I have a trick that fixes this gotcha good and proper.

Tutorial for Objective-C beginners