NSScreencast: Bite-sized Screencasts for iOS Development

hung 14 years ago |

subdigital 14 years ago | |

....but those aren't "bite-sized" ;)

hung 14 years ago | | |

I'd argue that 20 minutes isn't either, but fair enough :)

wdewind 14 years ago |

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.

subdigital 14 years ago | |

Thanks for the feedback! I'm guessing your right about the video skipping, but I'll keep my eye on it.

jaydz 14 years ago |

Good stuff hope to see more videos soon. Also, really good domain name!

kleiba 14 years ago | |

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 ;-)

subdigital 14 years ago | | |

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.

kleiba 14 years ago | | |

Yeah, I thought it was interesting too, but others apparently didn't, or why else the downvote?

pdelgallego 14 years ago |

Great!

RSS feed? How often are planing to release episodes?

subdigital 14 years ago | |

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.

xoebus 14 years ago |

These are great: can't wait to see the next one!

DavidTO1 14 years ago |

Great job with the videos. Memory management is sort of obsolete with ARC.

subdigital 14 years ago | |

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.

stottc 14 years ago | | |

ARC is nearly fully supported on 4.0

subdigital 14 years ago | | |

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.

ighost 14 years ago | |

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).