It seems that many of the apps in use today rely on or display feeds or lists of data; be that a Twitter timeline, an RSS feed or a list of history in a version control system, there’s a common trend in UI for using lists.
But displaying lists in applications can be much more than trivial, certainly for applications on …

Are you familiar with the Apple Human Interface Guidelines? It is a document which outlines how good OS X applications should look and behave in order to maintain the consistent look and feel of applications across the Mac platform (and the iPhone for the iPhone Human Interface Guidelines).
Personally, for any document of considerable length which I will undoubtedly spend a …

I often find myself answering questions on Stack Overflow where users question whether they are managing memory correctly. I often refer to Apple’s guide on Object Ownership and Disposal, from the Memory Management Programming Guide for Cocoa, since this explains why what they are doing is either correct or incorrect.
Notably are the object “ownership” conventions which the guide outlines. Ownership …