Arun Stephens

I just noticed this, not sure if it’s new or part of their A/B testing. They’ve got a box on the right hand side asking which of two places I have previously checked into was better. It looks like Facebook are trying to gather information about places so they can provide recommendations, much like foursquare’s Explore tab. Have any of you noticed this on Facebook? Answer in the comments or on Twitter @arunstephens. Read post »

Ever had a problem when you’re fetching something from an NSManagedObjectContext, and you’ve set a concrete class in your model, only to find that it is an NSManagedObject? Me too. I read this post at StackOverflow, which suggested that you have to create the subclass using Xcode, from within the modeler. OK, I thought. I’ll try that. I deleted my old .h and .m files. I went into the modeler. I created a new Managed Object class. Read post »

I’ve run into a problem where I insert a managed object into a managed object context, in a separate thread, and then return the object ID to the main thread and then retrieve the object from the main thread’s context using that ID. It didn’t always work. It is because I saved the first managed object context after I took the object ID. And the object ID was temporary because the object hadn’t been persisted. And Read post »

*** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInternalInconsistencyException', reason: 'binding not implemented for this SQLType 7' That’s not something you want to read. And it doesn’t make much sense. And there’s not a lot out there on that problem, either. I am adding Core Data to Zoopcast (the people-powered local search app). The first few releases just took data from the JSON web service, and put it into unmanaged objects. (As it turns out, I probably should have Read post »

I just found this one out thanks to this post from the Azure team. Basically, I was configuring Table Storage (as you may have guessed, if you’ve read my other posts today), and using the CloudStorageAccount.FromConfigurationSetting(string) method. As you are probably aware (if you are aware of this sort of stuff), to be able to use that method, you must first set a function that tells Cloud Storage how to figure out how to get configuration settings. Read post »