What kind of prefix do you use for member variables?

No doubt, it’s essential for understanding code to give member variables a prefix so that they can easily be distinguished from “normal” variables. I dispute this claim. It’s not the least bit necessary if you have half-decent syntax highlighting. A good IDE can let you write your code in readable English, and can show you … Read more

How to customize / style a UIPopoverController

This is possible starting in iOS 5.0 by subclassing the abstract class UIPopoverBackgroundView and assigning your subclass to the popoverBackgroundViewClass property on your UIPopoverController instance. Unfortunately there is no tintColor property as the popover needs to use images for it’s arrow and border in order to achieve smooth animations during dynamic resizing. You can learn … Read more