Edge Cases

Slinging CGRects Around

Wolf Rentzsch continues the conversation with Andrew Pontious about Auto Layout: its yays and its nays, Wolf’s inevitable new GitHub projects to ease its usage, and alternatives such as ReactiveCocoaLayout.

Links:

• The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet « Wikipedia
• Erica Sadun tweet: “suh-DOOOOOON. :)”
• Peter Hosey tweet: “@uliwitness @rentzsch They replaced both PackageMaker and package_maker with a new CLI tool.”
• Rasmus Sten tweet: “@edgecasesshow OS X keeps track of files installed by pkg. Try e.g. “pkgutil –file-info /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.adobe.fpsaud.plist””
• jbafford/xarfs « GitHub
• unixorn/luggage « GitHub
• munki - Managed software installation for OS X « Google Project Hosting
• Miles Egan tweet: “And yet another simple structured layout is turned into an afternoon of algebraic story problems by the magic of AutoLayout…”
• Miles Egan tweet: “Why not ignore the fact that 95% of UI is nested grids and instead go off to the moon on a rat’s nest of ambiguous linear equations?”
• Auto Layout Performance on iOS « Florian Kugler
• ReactiveCocoa/ReactiveCocoaLayout « GitHub
• rentzsch/UIView-jr_viewInSuperview « GitHub
• rentzsch/UIView-jr_addConstraints « GitHub
• rentzsch/JRCenteringScrollView « GitHub
• rentzsch/AutoLayoutShorthand « GitHub
• iOS Autolayout: Fun Facts and Tips « Big Nerd Ranch Blog

Rejected Episode Titles:

• I Guess This Is the Gray Hair Showing
• Which May Or May Not Be a Good Thing
• “I Don’t Really Care” … “Fair Enough”
• Which Doesn’t Solve Virtually Any of the Problems You Mentioned
• I’d Rather Just Move On with My Life
• iTunes Schmitunes
• You Don’t Need iTunes When You Have otool
• I Don’t Tend to Think in Terms of Cartesian Coordinate Systems
• Top Left Is the Way to Your Heart
• It Feels Like Graphics Code
• I Just Totally Stay Away from IB
• One Mutable Field That’s Ironically Named Constant
• A Little Alarming
• Weird, Attached Purple Window
• Where the Tools Are Nicer
• Your Debug Logs Will Be All the Richer
• It’s Not a Real Edge Cases Episode Unless Wolf Ships a GitHub Repository
• The First One Is So Dumb and Simple
• I Guess You Control the Horizontal and the Vertical
• I Attacked This in So Many Different Ways
• I Spent Some Quality Time in Stack Overflow
• It Flies off My Fingers
• No End of Trouble
• Once You Have Dictionary Literals, It’s Ehwuwhuugh
• Our Magical Friend
• It Shrinks My Code
• You Were Talking Pretty Fast
• No Magic Bullet There