{"id":96,"date":"2010-11-14T17:25:58","date_gmt":"2010-11-15T01:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bynomial.com\/blog\/?p=96"},"modified":"2010-11-14T17:25:58","modified_gmt":"2010-11-15T01:25:58","slug":"ios-quick-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bynomial.com\/blog\/?p=96","title":{"rendered":"iOS Quick Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post introduces a publicly editable table of quick iOS questions and their answers. \u00c2\u00a0Think of it as a very lite version of stackoverflow.com focused on iOS. \u00c2\u00a0For example, you might ask the question, &#8220;How do I cancel a UIView animation?&#8221; and the answer is to use the<\/p>\n<div class=\"codecolorer-container text default\" style=\"overflow:auto;white-space:nowrap;\"><div class=\"text codecolorer\">[CALayer removeAllAnimations]<\/div><\/div>\n<p>method. \u00c2\u00a0This question\/answer pair is very short &#8211; it&#8217;s something you might discover on your own while looking through Apple&#8217;s extensive docs. \u00c2\u00a0If you want to share this knowledge, the stackoverflow environment doesn&#8217;t feel like a place where you&#8217;re meant to purposefully ask questions you know the answer to, and the useful posts tend to be longer-form question\/answer pairs. \u00c2\u00a0So the idea of the iOS Quick Questions table is to serve as a good place for sharing or finding short, self-discovered nuggets of coding know-how.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a short link to add your own quick question\/answer pair:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/cJcqzs\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/cJcqzs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Please do post question\/answer pairs there if you know the answer &#8211; but <strong>please don&#8217;t post questions without answers<\/strong>. \u00c2\u00a0If you do have a coding question without an answer, I would suggest asking on <a href=\"http:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/\">stackoverflow<\/a> (after some minimal searching on your own, of course!).<\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s the short link to look up any previous question\/answer:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/9q3O6U\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/9q3O6U<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This kind of wiki-like interface through a publicly editable Google doc spreadsheet\/form is very experimental, and I have no idea if it will be useful. \u00c2\u00a0If the spreadsheet gets spammy, or no one contributes to it, I might make it read-only and leave up the (frozen) question\/answer pairs in case they&#8217;re useful to anyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post introduces a publicly editable table of quick iOS questions and their answers. \u00c2\u00a0Think of it as a very lite version of stackoverflow.com focused on iOS. \u00c2\u00a0For example, you might ask the question, &#8220;How do I cancel a UIView animation?&#8221; and the answer is to use the [CALayer removeAllAnimations] method. \u00c2\u00a0This question\/answer pair is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[4,75],"tags":[85,86,84],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bynomial.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bynomial.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bynomial.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bynomial.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bynomial.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bynomial.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bynomial.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bynomial.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bynomial.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}