ashokds

NSZombieEnabled is an environment variable which controls whether the Foundation runtime will use zombies. When zombies are enabled, a deallocated object's class is dynamically changed to be _NSZombie, and by default, the memory region is never marked as free, although this can be controlled separately(so, remember to disable NSZombieEnabled for Archived Release Build).

The end result is that, with zombies enabled, messages to deallocated objects will no longer behave strangely or crash in difficult-to-understand ways, but will instead log a message and die in a predictable and debugger-breakpointable way. This is the tool to use when trying to track down over-releases and premature releases.

Zombies will take effect for all Objective-C objects that are deallocated through normal means, including most Cocoa classes as well as user-created classes. On 10.4 and earlier, a rather important exception to this is most/all TollFreeBridged classes, as they are deallocated using CoreFoundation which NSZombieEnab

maciekish

#!/bin/bash
killall Xcode
xcrun -k
xcodebuild -alltargets clean
rm -rf "$(getconf DARWIN_USER_CACHE_DIR)/org.llvm.clang/ModuleCache"
rm -rf "$(getconf DARWIN_USER_CACHE_DIR)/org.llvm.clang.$(whoami)/ModuleCache"
rm -rf ~/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/*
rm -rf ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.dt.Xcode/*
open /Applications/Xcode.app

cabeca

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

require 'JSON'

device_types = JSON.parse `xcrun simctl list -j devicetypes`
runtimes = JSON.parse `xcrun simctl list -j runtimes`
devices = JSON.parse `xcrun simctl list -j devices`

devices['devices'].each do |runtime, runtime_devices|
  runtime_devices.each do |device|

beny

Core Data

• -com.apple.CoreData.SQLDebug 1-3 - print all SQL queries called by Core Data
  • -com.apple.CoreData.Logging.stderr 1-3 - needed alongside with the SQLDebug from iOS 10+ because of new logging system, more on that in changelog
• -com.apple.CoreData.SyntaxtColoredLogging YES - probably syntax colored logging (not tried)
• -com.apple.CoreData.SQLiteDebugSynchronous 1 - preference controls some aspects of the SQLite store. See the "Configuring a SQLite Store's Save Behavior" section of the Core Data Programming Guide for details
• -com.apple.CoreData.SQLiteIntegrityCheck 1 - the SQLite store does extra integrity checking
• -com.apple.CoreData.MigrationDebug 1 - Core Data will log information about exceptional cases as it migrates data
• -com.apple.CoreData.ThreadingDebug - preference enables assertions to enforce Core Data's multi-threading policy. It is a number, where incre

steipete

// Taken from the commercial iOS PDF framework http://pspdfkit.com.
// Copyright (c) 2014 Peter Steinberger, PSPDFKit GmbH. All rights reserved.
// Licensed under MIT (http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)
//
// You should only use this in debug builds. It doesn't use private API, but I wouldn't ship it.

// PLEASE DUPE rdar://27192338 (https://openradar.appspot.com/27192338) if you would like to see this in UIKit.

#import <objc/runtime.h>
#import <objc/message.h>

dergachev

OS X Screencast to animated GIF

This gist shows how to create a GIF screencast using only free OS X tools: QuickTime, ffmpeg, and gifsicle.

Instructions

To capture the video (filesize: 19MB), using the free "QuickTime Player" application:

erikreagan

Mac web developer apps

This gist's comment stream is a collection of webdev apps for OS X. Feel free to add links to apps you like, just make sure you add some context to what it does — either from the creator's website or your own thoughts.

— Erik

masak

Ok, I geeked out, and this is probably more information than you need. But it completely answers the question. Sorry. ☺

Locally, I'm at this commit:

$ git show
commit d6cd1e2bd19e03a81132a23b2025920577f84e37
Author: jnthn <jnthn@jnthn.net>
Date:   Sun Apr 15 16:35:03 2012 +0200

When I added FIRST/NEXT/LAST, it was idiomatic but not quite so fast. This makes it faster. Another little bit of masak++'s program.