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Apple Profiling Tools - Shark is Out, Instruments is In


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As we sat down today to do some performance profiling in Shark, we came to a sudden realization - it doesn't work anymore with iOS4. After some quick Google searching I came across a thread in Apple's developer forum (registration required) that indicated there were no plans to bring iOS4 support to Shark.

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Advertising at Switch On The Code


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So over the last couple years here at Switch On The Code we built up from a very small following to a pretty decent sized web site. Also, over that time frame we have done a few different things with our advertising, to varying degrees of success. Well, we decided it was time to try something new with some of our ads. Specifically, the 125x125 ads on our post pages. We recently moved all of these over to Buy Sell Ads.

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Book Review - Essential C# 4.0


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Earlier this year saw the release of .NET 4.0, Visual Studio 2010, and C# 4.0. With this release, like so many others, came a flurry of new books. Today's review will be covering one such book - "Essential C# 4.0" by Mark Michaelis.

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Downtime


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It seems that Switch On The Code's traffic has finally surpassed what our poor dedicated machine is capable of handling - or at least I hope that's the problem. A few times last month, especially on weekday mornings, most of our services go down because there just isn't enough memory available to handle them. At the moment, we've been simply restarting the needed services, but that obviously isn't a good solution. We'll be adding some more memory to our machine soon, but until then, please accept our apology if you've attempted to access the site during one of our downtimes.

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Microsoft Developer Stories


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So we were contacted by M80, who is currently trying to build some momentum around Visual Studio 2010, and they wanted us to tell our readers about a YouTube channel called Developer Stories. I checked out some of the videos and they're not all that bad - mostly interviews with developers about their lives and why they do what they do. We definitely weren't paid to pass along this info, although I wish we were, but I thought it was interesting and worth checking out.

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Notepad++ Subversion Plugin adds Revert


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Today we've release version 1.2 of our Notepad++ Subversion Plugin. We received a comment asking for revert and since it was a pretty straight-forward thing to add, it has been added.

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2,000,000 Visits and Growing


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Another year has come and gone here at Switch On The Code and that means it's time to look back at 2009 and how we did. First I have say it was a great year and we really did a lot of new things here. We started podcasting, doing video tutorials, and much more. A new version of the site was launched built completely in Drupal just about 1 year ago exactly. Now I really hope that this year will bring just as many goodies.

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PDC 2009 Round Up


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Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference has just wrapped up and I've decided to run through an account of what happened and some of the major announcements that have been made.

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AppKiDo - Making Cocoa Touch Documentation More Accessible


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I enjoy writing applications for the iPhone, not because I like Objective-C or Xcode but I really like seeing the application on my phone. This means I have to endure the other two. Being fairly new to the Cocoa and Objective-C world I spend a fair amount of time in documentation. This is always a mundane task but Xcode just makes it a completely bad experience. Recently I ran across an application that improves the task. The application is called AppKiDo.

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Welcome to the Month of iPhone


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With July ending, so does our month of Silverlight. All-in-all I think it was an enjoyable experience, however we did start to run out of interesting ideas there towards the end. We've spent an entire month with a Microsoft technology and it's time to shift gears. This time we're going Apple with an entire month dedicated to iPhone tutorials.

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