Archives for October, 2008

You should be using Coda

After starting my first full-time software development job last week, I found myself in need of a solution that would let me edit files directly on a development server. The folks at Panic convinced me to part with 99 of my hard earned dollars and I was not disappointed.

Setting the back button title of a UINavigationItem

As pointed out in this thread, "the back button is 'owned' by the previous view on the stack." In other words, the setBackBarButtonItem method should be called on the view that the user is navigating away from, rather than the view above which this button is actually displayed.

Avoid a UITableView headache

When using a custom section header view on a grouped UITableView, remember to implement the heightForHeaderInSection delegate method.