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Memory management in the iPhone is a hot topic. And since tonight I’m talking about it on tonight’s monthly meetup of the French-speaking Swiss iPhone Developers group, I might as well share some tips here from my own experience.
I won’t go dive through the basics; I think that Scott Stevenson did a great job in [...]

I’ve uploaded (yet another) update to the Objective-C REST client I’ve blogged about previously. This time I’ve scanned the code with the excellent LLVM/Clang Static Analyzer and fixed a couple of memory leaks here and there. I strongly recommend to scan your own projects with this tool, it’s extremely simple to use:

Install it somewhere in [...]

Two days ago, the same day we discussed violence, the ineffable Condoleezza Rice, a US official, declared that what was happening in Gaza was the Palestinians’ fault, due to their violent nature.
The underground rivers that crisscross the world can change their geography, but they sing the same song.
And the one we hear now is one [...]

Todo arrancó con un desperfecto del helicóptero, un día, en Mali. Esperando al piloto, me puse a charlar con un paisano durante todo un día. Me habló de su vida, de sus esperanzas, de sus miedos. Su unica ambición era poder alimentar sus hijos.
Habiendo interrumpido forzosamente mi trabajo para una revista, me zambullí en los [...]

You might remember my beloved mantras: learning a new programming language and reading at least 6 relevant books every year. Following the 2007 edition, here’s the list of the 8 books I have enjoyed most in 2008, ordered by a purely subjective and absolutely irrational decreasing preference. I strongly recommend all of them!
Winner: Geekonomics: The [...]