Jeff LaMarche praise + UIButtons

Jeff LaMarche just might rule. Seems like a lot of his postings are quite interesting for the maybe-not-so-newbie-anymore ObjC/iPhone programmer.

http://iphonedevelopment.blogspot.com/2010/03/irregularly-shaped-uibuttons.html

Nice intro UIView transform

Jeff LaMarche seems to have written quite a nice intro the transform property of UIViews, and how it (the transform prop) can be used to do various things to a view - scale, rotate, translate, etc. Like the tutorial on release/retain I posted below, this is the sort of thing I would have liked to read as a first introduction to animations/transform. Apple definitely has something to learn about pedagogy and/or meeting reader expectations from Jeff and Release/retain-guy/gal.

And oh yeah, here's the link:

http://www.iphone4gnew.com/demystifying-cgaffinetransform.html

Please note: The link leads to some sort of... well, compilation, I guess you could say and still be kind of right, of various sources. Jeff's original blog can be found at http://iphonedevelopment.blogspot.com .

Very good tutorial on release/retain in ObjC

Getters, setters, release, retain...

http://www.iphonedevsdk.com/forum/iphone-sdk-tutorials/7295-getters-setters-properties-newbie.html