A small collection of my preferred dark color themes for Xcode, from June 2010. I used the teliaz theme as

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Debugging gets a lot easier when your log output is readable. NSLog uses C-style format specifiers, and since Objective-C is

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Updated September 2026: the nib2objc project is a 2010 relic — archived on GitHub, no longer maintained — but the

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It is very important that iPhone and iPad applications use visual styles in a coherent way. This helps users learn

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Back in 2010 I posted a few scripts to count your database’s tables, views and stored procedures. Good news: they

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Originally posted June 2010. This debugging procedure — zombies plus malloc stack history — saved me more than once in

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