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Re:NSScreencast: Bite-sized Screencasts for iOS Development by hung on Tuesday February 14, 2012 @06:43PM (#3592317)
Re:NSScreencast: Bite-sized Screencasts for iOS Development by subdigital on Tuesday February 14, 2012 @07:01PM (#3592363)
....but those aren't "bite-sized" ;)
Re:NSScreencast: Bite-sized Screencasts for iOS Development by hung on Tuesday February 14, 2012 @07:47PM (#3592506)
I'd argue that 20 minutes isn't either, but fair enough :)
Re:NSScreencast: Bite-sized Screencasts for iOS Development by wdewind on Tuesday February 14, 2012 @08:55PM (#3592658)
Watched the first episode. I've written some really crappy iOS apps just as side projects and so this helped clear up a bunch of slight misconceptions I had about the way it worked. Great video, super clear explanations, I have a much more solid understanding now. Thanks.

One nitpick is the video kept freezing for me, I'd refresh and it would play another minute or so and then freeze again. Maybe just the HN effect or something.

Re:NSScreencast: Bite-sized Screencasts for iOS Development by subdigital on Wednesday February 15, 2012 @07:21AM (#3593948)
Thanks for the feedback! I'm guessing your right about the video skipping, but I'll keep my eye on it.
Re:NSScreencast: Bite-sized Screencasts for iOS Development by jaydz on Wednesday February 15, 2012 @01:30AM (#3593311)
Good stuff hope to see more videos soon. Also, really good domain name!
Re:NSScreencast: Bite-sized Screencasts for iOS Development by kleiba on Wednesday February 15, 2012 @01:41AM (#3593337)
Also, really good domain name!

That depends of course on your cultural and language background. In Germany, "NS" in a standard abbrevation for "Nationalsozialismus", the ideology of the Hitler regime from which the abbreviation "Nazi" derives. For instance, the time between '33 and '45 is typically called "NS-Zeit".

I don't think there's any danger, though, that anyone will confuse this website's content with anything related to that meaning ;-)

Re:NSScreencast: Bite-sized Screencasts for iOS Development by subdigital on Wednesday February 15, 2012 @07:25AM (#3593954)
Wow, kleiba, that's interesting to know

Of course "NS" is a play on Apple's Foundation classes that use the NextStep prefix for pseudo-namespaces.

It's unfortunate that it has connotations from our sordid past.

Re:NSScreencast: Bite-sized Screencasts for iOS Development by kleiba on Wednesday February 15, 2012 @07:23PM (#3596828)
Yeah, I thought it was interesting too, but others apparently didn't, or why else the downvote?
Re:NSScreencast: Bite-sized Screencasts for iOS Development by pdelgallego on Tuesday February 14, 2012 @07:19PM (#3592425)
Great!

RSS feed? How often are planing to release episodes?

Re:NSScreencast: Bite-sized Screencasts for iOS Development by subdigital on Wednesday February 15, 2012 @07:22AM (#3593950)
There's an RSS feed at http://feeds.feedburner.com/nsscreencast. It doesn't yet contain the enclosure for iTunes, but I'll get that in shortly.

I'll be releasing a video each week.

Re:NSScreencast: Bite-sized Screencasts for iOS Development by xoebus on Wednesday February 15, 2012 @04:06AM (#3593624)
These are great: can't wait to see the next one!
Re:NSScreencast: Bite-sized Screencasts for iOS Development by DavidTO1 on Tuesday February 14, 2012 @06:34PM (#3592294)
Great job with the videos. Memory management is sort of obsolete with ARC.
Re:NSScreencast: Bite-sized Screencasts for iOS Development by subdigital on Tuesday February 14, 2012 @06:39PM (#3592303)
Thanks!

I still recommend that everyone learn how memory management works before jumping into ARC. Much of what I do still has to support 4.0. That said, ARC is pretty badass, and I plan on doing a screencast on ARC in the near future.

Re:NSScreencast: Bite-sized Screencasts for iOS Development by stottc on Tuesday February 14, 2012 @06:55PM (#3592346)
ARC is nearly fully supported on 4.0
Re:NSScreencast: Bite-sized Screencasts for iOS Development by subdigital on Tuesday February 14, 2012 @07:00PM (#3592360)
You're right, ARC is partially supported in 4.0 (no weak references), but learning the hard way is still beneficial before learning on ARC.
Re:NSScreencast: Bite-sized Screencasts for iOS Development by ighost on Tuesday February 14, 2012 @07:53PM (#3592524)
If you don't understand basic memory management without ARC, you have no chance of ever understanding the weak reference annotations that ARC requires in certain cases (e.g. to avoid retain loops).