What really excites me the most about iOS 8 right now is Remote View Controllers, which I mentioned around iOS 6. Right now they are presented as something you use to implement services (extensions in iOS parlance), but combine them with auto-layout and adaptable view controllers, and you have a setup for presenting your app on an iWatch or an embedded display, for instance in a smart cover or an AppleTV widget. Embedding widgets accross iOS and mac devices is also an avenue I hope we developers soon get to explore. :-)

Dear John,

thanks for the great show (ATP), I look forward to every episode the three of you do. In the episode I listened to today (#53) you guys talked about ObjC moving forward, and you mentioned Erlang a few times.

Two small disclaimers first, (1) I'm very new in the world of Erlang, and (2) the company I work for has subsidiaries that only focus on Erlang, and shares in companies whose products are built on top of Erlang. I like to believe I'm not influenced by this, but I am influenced, amongst others, ...

Dear iOS dev,
if you haven't already read Ole Begemann's article on Remote View Controllers (and part 2 and part 3), you should do so now. I think and hope this will be one of those bread-and-butter features of iOS 7, so now would be a great time to think of where XPC and remote views fit into your existing and upcoming apps.

Last week I made sure I have good backups of my iMac. I usually do, but I wanted to make doubly sure, as this weekend, I would nuke my disks to make a fusion drive on my iMac from 2011.

When the iMac was released in 2011 with the Z68 chipset, a SSD and a magnetic disc, I was excited, as I was sure Apple would exploit the caching part of the chipset, using 64GB of the SSD for caching. Alas, they didn't. So I had to move files to "strategic places" and try to get my computer to act as quick as it could, trying to have it rely more on the SSD than the spinning disc.

The announcement of the fusion drive made me very happy, as it seemed that Apple would 1-up the Z68. The fusion drive would keep what was used a lot on my SSD, and use both drives as one combined drive, so no more moving files around manually and symlinking ...

I had the weirdest problem: Safari couldn't load most HTTPS sites and many others. It hadn't for many days, even though Chrome, Firefox etc worked fine. Turned out it was all solved by deleting ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.security.revocation.plist