Tag Archives: Objective-C

Code formatting

December 17 10

In this post, I’ll give a quick overview on choosing a personal coding style, and present a way to auto-format code in bulk. If you take your code seriously, you probably have a code style that you consistently use. For example, maybe you always use braces with every if clause, or you use underscores in […]

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Memory management guidelines

May 23 10

In this post, I’ll outline four simple rules for memory management in Objective-C. The Apple docs have already established basic guidelines for object ownership, following the fundamental idea that if you own an object, then you’re responsible for releasing it. This post goes a step further with tips for when and where ownership can be […]

By Tyler Posted in clean coding, memory management Also tagged Comments(1)