Facing new challenges everyday

ViewDeck (https://github.com/Inferis/ViewDeck) is an amazing library that helps you to easily add a Facebook like menu into your application, unfortunelly it has a small issue with storyboards causing to not load the IIViewDeckController code properly.

In order to make use of ViewDeck in a specific scene of my storyboard, I created a blank scene with a empty view, in viewDidLoad method I added the following lines of code:
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Recently I started a project which must understand the CBR format, for those that doesn’t know, CBR is a comics file format, which consists of several image files archived in RAR archive format.

In order to be able to read CBR archive contents and uncompress them I need to port unrar library to iOS, after some quick research I found an existing work done in this way, it’s pretty old, but gave me some insight about how to start.
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Cocoa Touch is an awesome API, it contains a large set o frameworks that can be used to create fantastic applications for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad, but if we compare Cocoa Touch with Cocoa API for MacOSX we won’t find some cool features like masking on input controls.
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Today I discovered how objetive-c allows the programmer to generate a textual representation of a object, you can do it by implementing a description method of NSObject protocol.

Please consider the following class interface:

Contact.h

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One of the missing features in Xcode is the hability to add code sense for protocol methods that can be implemented by a class, for example a class that extends UITableViewController, these classes may have a custom implementation of methods found on both UITableViewDelegate or UITableViewDatasource protocols, the signature of these methods isn’t so easy to memorize and some code completion at this point would help a lot.

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