This maintenance release for DTCoreText addresses one pressing issue with images represented in data URLs and a collection of a few contributions.
Xcode 6 drops armv7s
The latest Xcode update no longer builds for the armv7s architecture by default. Is it planned obsolesce or an oversight?
AV Foundation: Code 39 Recognition Confusion
This is a bug report for AV Foundation. I noticed this problem when creating nice vector versions of the 1D barcodes used in figures in my book. The problem with this is that if you are scanning Code39 barcodes you have no way to determine whether it was one with or without check digit.
It’s filed as rdar://18566595 and on Open Radar.
Update Oct 17th: Added Apple’s response “behaves as intended” with a very good explanation given.
Best practices running an iOS open source project on GitHub
This is the second talk (of two) I gave at Mobiconf 2014. The first one – about barcodes – is available to watch here.
All You Need to Know to Leverage Barcodes in Your Apps
This is the first of two talks i gave at Mobiconf 2014. The second one – about Open Source – is available to watch here.
Mobiconf 2014
Polish company Miquido decided 4 months ago that they wanted to have a great conference in Krakow. Since then they worked hard to pull off a conference that easily measures up to older, more established, conferences.
From Barcodes to Product Information
On the evening before Mobiconf I visited Cocoaheads Krakow to tell them about my book Barcodes with iOS and ProductLayer.
