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...

Ok, I’m getting a bit aggressive here. I just finished a custom control yesterday, MKEntryPanel, and now here I’m with MKHorizMenu. MKHorizMenu is a replacement for the Three20 famous, horizontal menu bar found in apps like USA Today. It can be used in cases when you have to display your content based on a specific sub category. The reason why I started writing this control instead of using Three20 was that, I wanted to use just...

After the huge success of the first control I submitted to CocoaControls, MKInfoPanel, I altered it to make it behave like a input panel. MKEntryPanel shows a semi full screen window similar to the UISearchBarController. You can dismiss it by tapping anywhere else. Demo Here is a quick 30 sec demo of the Entry panel in action. Code The source code is available at github. Pick it up, clone it or do whatever you want from...

TweetBot is sexy, no one can deny it. One of the coolest aspect of TweetBot is the unobtrusive panels that show what is happening on the app. Some apps like Reeder have resorted to HUDs. The problem with HUDs are that, they are shown on a different “z-index” and human eye has to shift the focus to read what’s on it. For the same reason, HUDs feel a bit disconnected from the UI which could be why on both iOS and Mac, Apple...

Update:Nov 7th 2011: Get the latest ARC compatible template from the Attachments section With XCode 4, Apple has made some changes to the template subsystem as such none of the old templates that worked on XCode 3 will work automatically. After spending a couple of hours, I managed to figure out the differences and fortunately, the new template subsystem is more cleaner than XCode 3. The Singleton template I created last year is now...