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The Allure of Blaming the New

TL;DR

In iOS 8, if you might sometimes have a UITableViewCell whose detailTextLabel is invisible. If you’re experiencing this bug, you’re probably assigning a nil or empty string (“”) to the detailTextLabel of some other cell somewhere else in your…

The Reverb Guide to Debugging UIView in the Blind

I’ve been working a lot with junior iOS devs this week, and a common issue keeps coming up. They’ll add a UIView to the screen but, for whatever reason, it doesn’t display.

Private Methods and Properties in Swift

Apple announced a new language last week: Swift. Now that everyone’s had time to read the book and start playing with sample projects, a startling deficiency of the language has been uncovered. Swift makes no provision for access modifiers such as public…