Tag: iOS

The situation for mobile development has been painful. The two major platforms don’t support any common conventional programming language. Mind you, this is an improvement from several years ago when it seemed there were four platforms, again with no common language. BlackBerry OS 10 and Windows Mobile have since fallen off the bottom. Even so, […]

In Learning Tree’s Cloud Security Essentials course we have been discussing the BEAST attack. I wrote about it here last spring. Things have shifted recently, it’s time to update the discussion. TLS 1.0 and earlier SSL versions had a serious flaw that allowed an attacker to recover small fragments of cleartext, exposing authentication credentials. The […]

Looking around the web you’ve probably noticed that great images can make the difference between an amateurish website and a professionally crafted one. The same goes for iOS apps. In both cases, image quality never makes up for bad design and usability, but carefully created images can really add polish. A problem is that high-end […]

The new features of iOS 6 from a user’s point of view are well documented and well reviewed so I don’t intend to go over the same ground here. Having spent a large part of the last couple of weeks watching WWDC 2012 videos and playing with some of the new features, this is my […]

Have you ever opened up an app on your iPhone or iPad and noticed that it crashed immediately? Then it was OK when you restarted it? That’s usually because there is a bug in the way the application responds to the memory management processes in iOS. Memory Management in iOS One of the objectives of […]