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DTCoreText 1.6.6 + DTRichTextEditor 1.6.3

Aug 30, 2013

Again, another maintenance release for DTCoreText and DTRichTextEditorwhich mostly addresses issues introduced by the recent CSS handling rewrite. It also further enhances support for CSS style cascading.

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Variable-Sized Items in UICollectionView

Aug 30, 2013

UICollectionView was added last year with iOS 6 and to this date I had no real chance to get acquainted with it since most of my apps were still supporting iOS 5. Doing a fresh app only supporting the latest iOS version finally allowed me to dig into it and share the journey with you.

The special scenario we want to look at today is how we could configure variable-sized collection view cells for items like tags. We want to have the cells adjust their size automatically based on the tag string and ideally we don’t want to have to write any layout code for determine the needed sizes.

Please forgive if the following has a few places where I stumbled. It is these temporary snags that I believe you learn from the most, so I left them in the final article.

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BarCodeKit 1.0.1

Aug 23, 2013

Not much time has passed since the initial release of BarCodeKit. But time enough for Mr. Andy Qua to generously provide an implementation for the Interleaved 2of5 code.

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DTCoreText 1.6.5

Aug 22, 2013

This is a maintenance release addressing several crashing problems.

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Selling Linguan

Aug 22, 2013

It is with a heavy heart that today we’re announcing that we are looking for a buyer interested in acquiring our Mac localization tool Linguan.

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Announcing BarCodeKit

Aug 19, 2013

iOS7 will have the ability to scan 1D and 2D bar codes built-in. The same is true for generating 2D bar codes. Which begs the question why Apple opted to omit support for creating 1D bar codes. (rdar://14694904)

One second hand explanation I heard was that laser-based scanners might have trouble reading 1D codes from the screen of an iPhone, whereas 2D codes require a camera anyway and therefore can be easily scanned even from a display.

While this explains the omission to a certain degree, I don’t buy it. I can think of many scenarios where you would want to print a 1D bar code, or put it into a PDF that is supposed to printed. Also, as CCD-based scanners become more prevalent they will soon be available in larger numbers than laser-based scanners.

In short, I am seeing a niche that is not being served. Thus I’m announcing BarCodeKit.

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DTCoreText 1.6.4

Aug 16, 2013

This update for DTCoreText brings fixes and improvements of equal proportion.

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DTFoundation 1.5.2

Aug 14, 2013

This update for DTFoundation fixes issues with DTLog and DTHTMLParser and adds a few new utility methods.

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DTCoreText 1.6.3 + DTRichTextEditor 1.6.2

Aug 08, 2013

Two minor version updates are fixing issues in DTCoreText and DTRichTextEditor.

Update: If you have trouble building via CocoaPods please make sure that you have version 0.23 and also refresh your pod specs. I had to – once more – modify the spec to fix a build problem. Sorry for the inconvenience.

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