I've recently been working on an app called FoodSquare, it's basically Yelp sorted by Foursquare checkins instead of user reviews. Just like in the Yelp app, I wanted to populate an image for each restaurant on my UITableView, but things didn't go as I expected...

So there is something that's been driving me super crazy ever since I started using XCode. Whenever I drag in an outside file into my project (like an image I just downloaded from the internet), the file gets copied by Reference, and not actually saved in my project directory.

I love using the Navigation Controller for most of my projects, but unfortunately, it just doesn't look that great! Here is how to change it...

For the past two weeks, I've been working a lot with APIs, which of course are in the JSON format and usually have dictionaries inside of dictionaries inside of dictionaries. Here is the easiest way to parse the nested dictionaries...

I am currently working with the Foursquare API to build a simple app which will display local restaurants based on the number of checkins in has (so think Yelp sorted by Foursquare checkins vs user reviews). The Foursquare API uses authorization with a Client ID and a Client Secret token, which I wanted to store as a global variable...

One of the hardest programming concepts for me to understand in the past few weeks as I'm learning iOS development was, you guessed it, Delegates! So I'd like to share how I've come to think of them... using a CoffeeShop analogy. So here is the story:

I've been thinking a lot about what separates great software from mediocre or bad software. Here is the clear differentiator I keep noticing time...

I was working on a simple challenge today at Mobile Makers. We were basically adding some text to a text field, clicking an "Add Button" and showing the text in a text view, and there was something that kept bothering me...

I'm learning to refactor in Objective-C with a little bit of metaprogramming!

I can't believe I'm feeling this way. It's like I'm in love. As someone who's come from working with Ruby on Rails, it's hard to imagine falling in love with another programming language. But it's happened.