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NS/UI Classes
date
article
2014-03-24 NSURL / NSURLComponents
by Matt Thompson (over at NSHipster)
2014-03-12 NSProgress
by Ole Begemann (over at Ole Begemann)
2014-02-27 NSScanner Tutorial: Parsing Data in Mac OS X
by Vincent Ngo (over at Ray Wenderlich)
2014-02-25 Handling Default Values With NSUserDefaults
by Ole Begemann (over at Ole Begemann)
2014-02-10 Video Tutorial: NSString (Video)
by Ray Wenderlich (over at Ray Wenderlich)
2014-02-10 Several Approaches to Higher-Order Functions with Objective-C Collections
by Nicolas Bouilleaud (over at bou.io)
2014-02-01 Working with Strings
by Daniel Eggert (over at objc)
2014-02-01 NSString and Unicode
by Ole Begemann (over at objc)
2014-01-13 NSRange
by Matt Thompson (over at NSHipster)
2013-12-09 NSURLSession Tech Talk Video (Video)
by Ray Wenderlich (over at Ray Wenderlich)
2013-12-01 The Foundation Collection Classes
by Peter Steinberger (over at objc)
2013-11-11 NSFormatter
by Matt Thompson (over at NSHipster)
2013-10-27 NSArrayController and KVO dependent keys
by Damien DeVille (over at Damien DeVille)
2013-10-25 Friday Q&A: NSObject: the Class and the Protocol
by Mike Ash (over at mikeash.com)
2013-08-28 Number Ranges in Objective-C
by Nicolas Bouilleaud (over at bou.io)
2013-08-19 NSHash​Table & NSMap​Table
by Matt Thompson (over at NSHipster)
2013-07-19 Learn to Code iOS Apps: Strings, Arrays, Objects and Classes
by Mike Jaoudi (over at Ray Wenderlich)
2013-07-10 NSArray Binary Search
by Ole Begemann (over at Ole Begemann)
2013-07-08 NSExpression
by Matt Thompson (over at NSHipster)
2013-06-02 NSDataDetector
by Matt Thompson (over at NSHipster)
2013-05-17 Friday Q&A: Let's Build stringWithFormat:
by Mike Ash (over at mikeash.com)
2013-05-15 NSRegularExpression Tutorial and Cheat Sheet
by Soheil Moayedi Azarpour (over at Ray Wenderlich)
2013-04-11 On designing collections
by Graham Lee (over at Secure Mac Programming)
2013-03-25 Search Kit
by Matt Thompson (over at NSHipster)
2013-03-22 Friday Q&A: Let's Build NSInvocation, Part II
by Mike Ash (over at mikeash.com)
2013-03-22 Filtering NSArray With Key-Value Coding
by Nicolas Bouilleaud (over at bou.io)
2013-03-21 Incremental Arrayification
by Mark Dalrymple (over at theNerdBlog)
2013-03-11 NSError description/reason synthesis cheat-sheet
by Mike Abdullah (over at Mike Abdullah)
2013-02-27 There is a Bug in the NSFetchedResultsControllerDelegate Documentation
by Ole Begemann (over at Ole Begemann)
2013-02-22 Friday Q&A: Let's Build UITableView
by Mike Ash (over at mikeash.com)
2013-02-20 Working with Date and Time
by James Beith (over at Realmac Software)
2013-02-19 Improving Autolayout
by Martin Pilkington (over at Pilky.me)
2013-02-08 Key-Value Coding: Custom Operators
by Nicolas Bouilleaud (over at bou.io)
2013-01-28 NSValue
by Matt Thompson (over at NSHipster)
2013-01-18 Constant Strings in Objective-C
by Nicolas Bouilleaud (over at bou.io)
2013-01-03 NSFetchedResultsController - sectionNameKeypath Discussion
by Ben Blakely (over at Cocoa Is My Girlfriend)
2012-12-03 KVC Collection Operators
by Matt Thompson (over at NSHipster)
2012-11-27 NSValue for Custom Structs
by Oliver Drobnik (over at Cocoanetics)
2012-11-12 NSValueTransformer
by Matt Thompson (over at NSHipster)
2012-11-05 NSURLProtocol
by Matt Thompson (over at NSHipster)
2012-09-17 NSCharacterSet
by Matt Thompson (over at NSHipster)
2012-08-27 CFBag
by Matt Thompson (over at NSHipster)
2012-08-06 CFStringTransform
by Matt Thompson (over at NSHipster)
2012-07-31 NSDateComponents
by Matt Thompson (over at NSHipster)
2012-07-25 Sorting an Array
by Matthew Campbell (over at How to Make iPhone Apps)
2012-07-24 NSSortDescriptor
by Matt Thompson (over at NSHipster)
2012-07-14 NSCache
by Matt Thompson (over at NSHipster)
2012-07-07 NSIndexSet
by Matt Thompson (over at NSHipster)
2012-07-06 Friday Q&A: Let's Build NSNumber
by Mike Ash (over at mikeash.com)
2012-07-03 String and String, what is String?
by Mark Dalrymple (over at theNerdBlog)
2012-06-14 Using Number Formatters
by Keith Harrison (over at Use Your Loaf)
2012-06-03 Characters in NSString
by Peter Hosey (over at Idle Time)
2012-05-07 NSNotification
by Aaron Crabtree (over at Mobiletuts+)
2012-03-29 Checking Assumptions: -measuring isEqual[ToString]: performance
by Mark Dalrymple (over at theNerdBlog)
2012-03-29 Beware of NSString Optimizations
by Oliver Drobnik (over at Cocoanetics)
2012-03-26 isEqual: vs isEqualToString:
by Mark Dalrymple (over at theNerdBlog)
2012-03-22 An NSError Error
by Mark Dalrymple (over at theNerdBlog)
2012-03-16 Friday Q&A: Let's Build NSMutableDictionary
by Mike Ash (over at mikeash.com)
2012-03-09 Friday Q&A: Let's Build NSMutableArray
by Mike Ash (over at mikeash.com)
2012-02-28 Creating Repeating and Non-Repeating Timers
by John Muchow (over at iOS Developer Tips)
2012-02-21 Taming NSDate-Utilities
by Pat Zearfoss (over at Pat Zearfoss)
2012-02-17 Extending NSData and (Not) Overriding Dealloc
by Tom Harrington (over at Cocoa Is My Girlfriend)
2012-01-24 Comparing Strings With NSString In Objective-C
by Matt Drake (over at How to Make iPhone Apps)
2012-01-19 Add And Subtract Dates In Objective-C
by Matt Drake (over at How to Make iPhone Apps)
2012-01-15 C-Code outperforms NSScanner
by Oliver Drobnik (over at Cocoanetics)
2011-12-07 Blocks and Enumeration
by Collin Ruffenach (over at Mobiletuts+)
2011-12-06 Objective-C Tuesdays: more NSArray sorting
by Don McCaughey (over at AblePear Software)
2011-11-22 Working with Date and Time in Cocoa (Part 2)
by Ole Begemann (over at Ole Begemann)
2011-11-20 Chapter Eight: Essential Foundation Classes
by Matt Drake (over at How to Make iPhone Apps)
2011-11-17 Working with Date and Time in Cocoa (Part 1)
by Ole Begemann (over at Ole Begemann)
2011-09-29 Something and nothing
by Ariel Rodriguez (over at Volon Bolon)
2011-09-16 Some Love for Data Structures
by Pat Zearfoss (over at Pat Zearfoss)
2011-09-05 Objective C Strings
by Ravi R Dixit (over at Quagnitia iPhone Learning)
2011-08-25 What's New for Developers in Mac OS X Lion (Part 2)
by Ole Begemann (over at Ole Begemann)
2011-08-24 NSArray and NSMutableArray
by Ravi R Dixit (over at Quagnitia iPhone Learning)
2011-08-16 A CHOCKING MYSTERY: po [NSNumber numberWithBool:NO] outputs 1
by Bavarious (over at Objectivist-C)
2011-08-02 Objective-C Tuesdays: more about dynamic arrays
by Don McCaughey (over at AblePear Software)
2011-07-20 What's New for Developers in Mac OS X Lion (Part 1)
by Ole Begemann (over at Ole Begemann)
2011-07-20 Mac OS 10.7 Lion – My Favorite new APIs
by Spencer MacDonald (over at ObjColumnist)
2011-07-19 Objective-C Tuesdays: arrays
by Don McCaughey (over at AblePear Software)
2011-04-22 Using NSPredicate to Filter Data
by Peter Friese (over at Peter Friese's blog)
2011-04-14 Subclassing NSInputStream
by BJ Homer (over at BJ Homer's Blog)
2011-04-14 Subclassing NSInputStream
by BJ Homer (over at BJ Homer's Blog)
2011-03-13 NSExpression: simple examples
by telliott99 (over at Python for Bioinformatics)
2011-02-28 Using an NSDictionary for storing a matrix of values
by Pat Zearfoss (over at Pat Zearfoss)
2011-01-25 Using custom functions with NSExpression
by Dave Delong (over at Fun with Objective-C)
2011-01-13 What the heck is SUBQUERY?
by Dave Delong (over at Fun with Objective-C)
2010-12-13 Parsing strings with Objective-C and NSDateFormatter, a gotcha
by Luke Redpath (over at Luke Redpath)
2010-12-09 Saving Settings using NSUserDefaults Class
by Brandon Cannaday (over at Switch On The Code)
2010-12-03 Customizing Links in an NSTextView
by Gus Mueller (over at The Shape of Everything)
2010-12-03 Basic game data and state persistence with NSUserDefaults
by Alfred R Baudisch (over at Karnak Games)
2010-11-12 Abusing NSPredicate
by Dave Delong (over at Fun with Objective-C)
2010-11-09 The Art of Assertion (as it pertains to Xcode)
by Steffen Itterheim (over at Learn & Master Cocos2D Game Development)
2010-11-04 NSExpression
by Jeff LaMarche (over at iPhone Development)
2010-08-08 NSDateFormatter performance
by Benjamin Godard (over at Cocoa in the Shell)
2010-07-21 Square/Cube Root and NSDecimalNumber
by Mike Taylor (over at Code Shorts)
2010-07-17 First step with NSRegularExpression
by Benjamin Godard (over at Cocoa in the Shell)
2010-07-08 NSDictionary Copies It’s Keys
by Vincent Gable (over at Vincent Gable's Blog)
2010-07-01 NSNotification, UserInfo and Object Methods
by John Muchow (over at iOS Developer Tips)
2010-06-16 Formatting Numbers – NSNumberFormatter Examples
by John Muchow (over at iOS Developer Tips)
2010-05-28 initWithContentsOfURL: Methods Considered Harmful
by Adrian Kosmaczewski (over at akosma software)
2010-05-28 Friday Q&A: Leopard Collection Classes
by Mike Ash (over at mikeash.com)
2010-03-25 How To Do Amazingly Simple Searches With NSArray & NSPredicate
by Matt Drake (over at How to Make iPhone Apps)
2010-03-22 NSMutableDictionary simplicity
by Ivan Kalaica (over at Surgeworks Mobile)
2010-03-18 Timing is Everything
by Oliver Drobnik (over at Cocoanetics)
2010-03-14 Filtering Fun with Predicates
by Oliver Drobnik (over at Cocoanetics)
2010-03-04 Turbo Charging Your Apps With NSOperation
by Brandon Trebitowski (over at iCodeBlog)
2010-02-11 NSScroller
by anonymous (over at On the Horizon)
2010-02-05 NSArray vs. C Array performance comparison Part II - makeObjectsPerformSelector
by Mehmet Akten (over at memo.tv)
2010-02-05 NSArray vs. C Array performance comparison
by Mehmet Akten (over at memo.tv)
2010-01-01 Friday Q&A: NSRunLoop Internals
by Mike Ash (over at mikeash.com)
2010-00-00 NSNotificationCenter + Blocks: The Solution
by Jim Dovey (over at Alan Quatermain)
2010-00-00 An NSNotification + Blocks Gotcha
by Jim Dovey (over at Alan Quatermain)
2009-12-17 NSSet, Part Two: Core Data Integration
by Shannon Appelcline (over at iPhone in Action)
2009-12-02 NSSet, Part One: The Basics
by Shannon Appelcline (over at iPhone in Action)
2009-11-30 Writing a parser using NSScanner (a CSV parsing example)
by Matt Gallagher (over at Cocoa with Love)
2009-11-25 The World on an NSString
by Oliver Drobnik (over at Cocoanetics)
2009-11-15 Moving objects within an NSMutableArray
by Alexander Clauss (over at iCab Blog)
2009-11-14 NSViewController and the Chain of Responsibility
by anonymous (over at The Mental Blog)
2009-11-14 A drop-in fix for the problems with NSHost
by Matt Gallagher (over at Cocoa with Love)
2009-11-13 Friday Q&A: Dangerous Cocoa Calls
by Mike Ash (over at mikeash.com)
2009-11-02 NSArray vs. C Array Part III
by anonymous (over at Diagrams)
2009-10-15 iPhone Performance – NSDateFormatter
by Jake Dempsey (over at Starter Step)
2009-09-30 The number of the beast
by telliott99 (over at Python for Bioinformatics)
2009-09-29 Cocoa: NSKeyedArchiver
by telliott99 (over at Python for Bioinformatics)
2009-09-29 Cocoa: More about archiving
by telliott99 (over at Python for Bioinformatics)
2009-09-22 Deep-Copying Dictionaries
by Oliver Drobnik (over at Cocoanetics)
2009-09-01 An NSSplitView delegate for priority based resizing
by Matt Gallagher (over at Cocoa with Love)
2009-08-26 Objective-C Tutorial: NSArray
by Brandon Trebitowski (over at iCodeBlog)
2009-08-12 Difference between NSDictionaryController and NSArrayController
by Jong Am (over at Something About Programming)
2009-07-17 Friday Q&A: Format Strings Tips and Tricks
by Mike Ash (over at mikeash.com)
2009-06-28 NSUserDefaults (Preferences)
by Spencer MacDonald (over at ObjColumnist)
2009-05-31 NSNumber: What is the point ?
by Spencer MacDonald (over at ObjColumnist)
2009-05-27 Advanced Sorting of NSArray with Functions
by Oliver Drobnik (over at Cocoanetics)
2009-05-25 Simple methods for date formatting and transcoding
by Matt Gallagher (over at Cocoa with Love)
2009-04-29 String theory and the OS X AppKit
by Dave Jewell (over at The Register)
2009-04-24 Leveraging setObjectValue: in an NSTableView
by Brian Dunagan (over at fill the void)
2009-04-23 How to Use a Nested Array to Make Your Complex Data Persistent
by Matt Drake (over at How to Make iPhone Apps)
2009-04-18 NSString Category for Compressing Whitespace
by Oliver Drobnik (over at Cocoanetics)
2009-03-29 Anything goes ... into NSArray
by Oliver Drobnik (over at Cocoanetics)
2009-03-28 Using NSKeyedArchiver to archive a C linked-list
by Matt Gallagher (over at Cocoa with Love)
2009-02-12 Travelling in Time
by Oliver Drobnik (over at Cocoanetics)
2009-01-18 Demystifying NSApplication by recreating it
by Matt Gallagher (over at Cocoa with Love)
2009-01-09 Friday Q&A: Thread safety in the System Frameworks
by Mike Ash (over at mikeash.com)
2008-12-23 Sort Descriptors, NSTableView Bindings, and You
by Simone Manganelli (over at Technological Supernova)
2008-12-18 OrderedDictionary: Subclassing a Cocoa class cluster
by Matt Gallagher (over at Cocoa with Love)
2008-12-16 AS3 to Cocoa Touch: Array's
by Andy Jacob (over at Andy Jacobs blog)
2008-11-26 How to work with a bound-to array
by Peter Hosey (over at Idle Time)
2008-11-10 Simplifying your code using NSDictionary
by Matt Gallagher (over at Cocoa with Love)
2008-10-12 Advanced Strings In Cocoa
by cocoacast (over at CocoaCast)
2008-10-10 The How and Why of Cocoa Initializers
by Mike Ash (over at mikeash.com)
2008-10-03 Saving/Retrieving Data Using NSUserDefaults
by Brandon Trebitowski (over at iCodeBlog)
2008-09-13 Today, and Tomorrow with NSDate
by Brian Dunagan (over at fill the void)
2008-08-09 NSArray or NSSet, NSDictionary or NSMapTable
by Matt Gallagher (over at Cocoa with Love)
2008-08-07 NSValue and non-object types
by Jong Am (over at Something About Programming)
2008-07-06 NSMapTable: more than an NSDictionary for weak pointers
by Matt Gallagher (over at Cocoa with Love)
2008-05-09 Square Root: Numerical fun with NSDecimalNumber
by Matt Gallagher (over at Cocoa with Love)
2008-04-30 Cocoa Text System everywhere…
by Uli Kusterer (over at Orange Juice Liberation Front)
2008-04-23 Don't Be Lazy With NSDecimalNumber (Like Me)
by Marcus Zarra (over at Cocoa Is My Girlfriend)
2008-04-06 Using NSTreeController
by Jonathan Dann (over at espresso served here)
2008-02-26 Collection Extensions
by Guy English (over at Kicking Bear)
2007-10-31 Number and Value Programming Topics for Cocoa
by Apple (over at Apple Developer Connection)
2007-10-31 Collections Programming Topics for Cocoa
by Apple (over at Apple Developer Connection)
2007-10-18 Strings Programming Guide for Cocoa
by Apple (over at Apple Developer Connection)
2007-10-08 Custom NSCells with NSManagedObjects
by Paul Robinson (over at Kupuk)
2007-05-04 NSCell Image and Text Sample
by Martin Kahr (over at Coffee & Cocoa)
2007-04-06 Introduction to Value Transformers
by Apple (over at Apple Developer Connection)
2007-03-19 How I learned to love NSUndoManager
by Kevin Hoffman (over at The .NET Addict's Blog)
2007-03-10 Everything you always wanted to know about NSApplication
by Jeff Johnson (over at Lap Cat Software Blog)
2006-11-04 Data for a custom cell in a NSTableView
by Martin Kahr (over at Coffee & Cocoa)
2006-10-10 Filling an NSMutableArray
by Jeff Johnson (over at Lap Cat Software Blog)
2006-09-09 Bridge
by Cory Doras (over at ridiculous_fish)
2006-08-08 Understanding the NSTableView Class
by José Cruz (over at O\'Reilly Network)
2006-05-13 Forwarding NSInvocations in Objective-C
by Scott Stevenson (over at Theocacao)
2006-05-13 Dynamic Objective-C with NSInvocation
by Scott Stevenson (over at Theocacao)
2006-03-08 View Programming Guide for Cocoa
by Apple (over at Apple Developer Connection)
2005-12-23 Array
by Cory Doras (over at ridiculous_fish)
2005-11-00 Smoother Image Scaling in NSTableView Cells
by Scott Stevenson (over at Theocacao)
2005-10-00 Using NSWorkspace with Applications
by Scott Stevenson (over at Theocacao)
2005-10-00 NSArray and KVC
by Scott Stevenson (over at Theocacao)
2005-07-25 About the NSSlider Control
by Cesar Moro (over at design nation)
2005-06-01 Another NSTableView Tutorial
by Dan Saul (over at CocoaDev)
2005-06-00 NSTreeController and Drag and Drop
by Scott Stevenson (over at Theocacao)
2005-02-04 Making Inspectors for NSDocuments
by Mark Dalrymple (over at Borkware)
2003-01-21 NSTableView Tutorial
by Gorman Christian, Uli Kusterer * Mike Trent (over at CocoaDev)
2002-10-03 NSZone
by Kritter (over at CocoaDev)
2002-04-06 Cocoa #4: NSTableView and Dock Menu
by Unknown (over at Project: Omega)
2002-02-09 Getting Started With NSTableView
by H Lally Singh (over at Cocoa Dev Central)
2002-02-01 CURLHandle
by Dan Wood (over at MacTech)
2001-07-13 Strings in Cocoa: Part 2
by Mike Beam (over at O\'Reilly Network)
2001-06-29 Strings in Cocoa: Part 1
by Mike Beam (over at O\'Reilly Network)
2000-06-00 Basic GNUstep Base Library Classes
by Nicola Pero (over at GNUstep)
unknown Quickies for NSWindow
by Mark Dalrymple (over at Borkware)
unknown Quickies for NSView
by Mark Dalrymple (over at Borkware)
unknown Quickies for NSTextView
by Mark Dalrymple (over at Borkware)
unknown Quickies for NSTableView
by Mark Dalrymple (over at Borkware)
unknown Quickies for NSString
by Mark Dalrymple (over at Borkware)
unknown Quickies for NSObject
by Mark Dalrymple (over at Borkware)
unknown Quickies for NSDocument
by Mark Dalrymple (over at Borkware)