Author: Ashley Nelson


objc.io

objc.io has quickly become a must read blog for iOS developers. Each month a new topic is covered on the site from different perspectives, in comprehensive and precise technical detail. As a completionist, I appreciate the way authors Chris Eidhof, Daniel Eggert, and Florian

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Apple's Tech Talks

I was lucky enough to be selected to attend Apple's iOS Tech Talks, held last week in San Francisco. The day long FREE event ran from about 9am - 7pm and was packed full of useful information for iOS developers. I wasn't able to snag

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Circa News 2 Released!

Circa News 2 is now available on the App Store.

Changes include iOS 7 support, a revamped storyline experience, breaking news alerts, full screen images, and more.

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NSCoder Night

Most Tuesday evenings I hang out at NSCoder Night in SF. The website needs update love, but the credo is the same. NSCoder Night is a once a week opportunity for developers in the Cocoa (iOS/OSX) community to get together to code, ask questions

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Frosted UINavigationBar

Many thanks to Brian Capps for the following tip.

I wanted to achieve the frosted glass look of the iOS 7 UINavigationBar on the NYTimes iPhone app:

NYTimes app

which displays the colors of the content underneath more vibrantly than the default UINavigationBar in apps like Music:

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