Enable memory warnings in the iOS simulator to catch crash issues
One common crash issue that’s tough to catch during iOS development of UIViewControllers is the unloading and re-loading of views due to memory warnings. The viewDidUnload method ONLY gets called when a memory warning comes in, NOT as part of the regular view lifecycle. During development it’s likely you may never get a memory warning, […]
Initializing UIViewControllers
Most code samples that Apple provides for initializing a view controller look something like this: 
MyController *myController = [[MyController alloc] initWithNibName:@"MyView" bundle:nil]; This always felt like a strange pattern to me. And as Ole Begemann recently pointed out, it’s poor encapsulation. Why does the caller specify which .xib file some other controller should use? Isn’t […]