Its been no big suprise that Apple’s event was a biggy….in short the 3 top stories were:
Having our office on the University of York campus has been beneficial from the outset. It has provided us with the opportunity to interact with a wealth of other small businesses and projects.
In order to encourage growth into the emerging mobile industry we are coordinating with the University careers department to run The App Challenge event.
GCD (libdispatch) is a technology that Apple introduced with OS X Snow Leopard and iOS 4.0; we’ve had access to it on iOS for over a year now (and Mac OS X for 2 years!). Most of the marketing we all heard about was better thread efficiency, better use of multiple cores and blah blah blah who cares? Yes, these things are great, and they will make a difference to how well your code runs. But if I’m honest, the part of GCD that really makes a difference to me, is just how much easier it makes my life as a programmer. I constantly find myself finishing up some threaded programming with libdispatch, and thinking: concurrency just shouldn’t be this easy.
The aim of this post is to demonstrate this fact to you, teach you how to use libdispatch, and possibly garner addresses for threatening letters should you not start using it immediately.
Anthony Main
Elliot Neal