Much was commented this week about Apple’s China factories where American’s favorite phone and tablet computers are made. Being from a developing country myself, I was surprised to see such a big deal made about this “differing” labor practice in such countries when compared to Developed Countries’ practices. First, because when you compare absolute numbers instead of relative (%), statistics can scare or impress anyone. Take the $1.78 hourly wage and the board figure of $17 a month for example: $1.78/hr x 40hrs a week x 4 weeks comes to about = $284.8/mo income. $17 for room for what pretty much looked like my dorm room at University of Tampa,… Read More
Continue ReadingUse a simple NSNotificationCenter alert
The idea behind this is to notify one object/class of another object/class’ action. Thus you need the following: 1. A Class (A) whose object will register to receive notifications (be notified). 2. A Class (B) whose object will be doing something and when it finishes, must notify the other (post notification) Receiving Class A This class must cleanup its listening task so that when it is no longer active, the NSNotificationCenter will not waste time and resources notifying it about events it was once interested in. To do this simply add this to your dealloc method: //1. NSNotifCtr CLEANUP in viewDidUnload or dealloc [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] removeObserver:self]; This class must actually… Read More
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