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Debugging an ARC Mac application on Snow Leopard

I’m currently developing a Mac application which uses Apple’s relatively new Automatic Reference Counting (ARC) in place of manual memory management or garbage collection. Thus far, I’ve been doing most of my development and testing using Xcode 4.3 running on OS X 10.7, but I wanted to start to do more thorough testing on 10.6. ARC is supported on both versions of OS X (though with a few minor ...

I’m currently developing a Mac application which uses Apple’s relatively new Automatic Reference Counting (ARC) in place of manual memory management or garbage collection. Thus far, I’ve been doing most of my development and testing using Xcode 4.3 running on OS X 10.7, but I wanted to start to d...

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A new blog for a new day... or something

This is the inaugural post of this new blog, wherein I talk about how I’ve never been good at blogging regularly in the past, but this time I’m actually gonna post stuff, for reals. I know this, because I think I’ve written this post two or three times before over the years. But for reals this time! I have posted the occasional developer/opinion piece on my blog over at my company blog at Fat ...

This is the inaugural post of this new blog, wherein I talk about how I’ve never been good at blogging regularly in the past, but this time I’m actually gonna post stuff, for reals. I know this, because I think I’ve written this post two or three times before over the years. But for reals this ti...