iOS4 introduced ‘multitasking’ wherein rather than being terminated your application is put into a suspended state where it’ll wait either until the user opens it again, the OS terminates it as it needs the resources or the user taps the ‘stop’ button in the task tray. (Oliver Drobnik has an excellent in-depth explanation of this.) [...]
I’m currently working on an application that runs in a dual headless/GUI model. The main interaction point is a MAAttachedWindow (hattip to Matt Gemmell) attached to a NSStatusItem that lives in the Menu Bar. The user can invoke this manually or it becomes active when they use the Mac OS X Services contextual menu on [...]
I’m currently on the train down to Reading to attend NSConference, a small, community oriented conference aimed at independent developers for the Mac, iPhone and (presumably now) the iPad. In many ways it’s fitting that I’m writing this, my first post on this blog, on the way to the conference as the main driver for [...]