If you have been following me on Twitter or reading MKBlog, you would already be knowing about MKNetworkKit. I wrote a introductory post on MKNetworkKit couple of months ago and later explained in a more detailed post on how to use it in other sophisticated scenarios. From feedback so far, Image Caching was one aspect of MKNetworkKit that developers didn’t understand pretty well. In this post, I’ll try to explain how to use...

Recently, Apple introduced several new developer stuff including Xcode 4, ARC, LLVM Compiler 3.0 and iOS 5. From some of the questions on Stack overflow, I could understand that, most of the ARC related confusions arise due to the fact that, developers don’t know if “ABC” is a feature/restriction of LLVM 3.0 or iOS 5 or ARC. Retain cycles, auto-release pools, @autorelease blocks, oh man! So many new things? What am I going...

Couple of weeks ago, I wrote a clean, fast networking toolkit for iOS and Mac written for the LLVM Compiler 3.0 with ARC. Reception was very good that it was the “most-watched” repository on Github last week. Early adopters have sent me innumerable emails on how fast their network operations are, and how responsive their app is after integrating MKNetworkKit. MKNetworkKit is faster (and it makes your app feel smoother and faster...

How awesome would it be if a networking framework automatically takes care of caching responses for you? How awesome would it be if a networking framework automatically remembers your operations when your client is offline? You favorite a tweet or mark a feed as read when you are offline and the Networking Framework performs all these operations when the device comes back online, all with no extra coding effort from you. Introducing...

Release early, release often is a philosophy where you release the product as soon as possible and rapidly iterate it to perfection by listening to your customers. A polished release, on the other hand is where your product, in its initial version is solid, lacks obvious bugs and has just enough features to satisfy a majority of your consumers. Most software companies adopt either one of this and that choice is not superficial. In fact, it...