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Able Pear Software

Company blog · blog.ablepear.comprogrammingweb

Able Pear Software is the company blog at blog.ablepear.com, writing about programming and web. Since 2009, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 80 times. The last post was in 2012, but the archive is still widely read.

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80mentions?
4HN people?
2009–2012first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 37 in 2010

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Able Pear's posts for news on Objective-C and Xcode, such as the new @{} dictionary literal syntax in the Xcode 4.4 beta. Commenters cite it as a source for those features.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

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Most-linked posts?

  1. /2012/02/something-wonderful-new-objective-c.html
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-03-07

What Hacker News says?

  1. dkarl · 2012-03-07
    That looks really cool, but it doesn't work in Xcode 4.3, unfortunately. I found a bit more information here: http://blog.ablepear.com/2012/02/something-wonderful-new-obj... Apparently it's a feature in Xcode 4.4 in the beta release of the Mountain Lion SDK. There's no developer preview for Lion, though. Fingers crossed that Xcode 4.4 will be released for Lion and not just for Mountain Lion....

    Comment linking /2012/02/something-wonderful-new-objective-c.html

    on “Why Objective-C is Hard”
  2. donmcc · 2010-04-06

    Submitted Objective-C Tuesdays: local variables and functions parameters as a story · 10 points

    HN discussion
  3. barrym · 2012-05-04
    I didn't know about the new @{} syntax for dictionaries - http://blog.ablepear.com/2012/02/something-wonderful-new-obj... - very nice.

    Comment linking /2012/02/something-wonderful-new-objective-c.html

    on “A review of RubyMotion”
  4. donmcc · 2009-06-25

    Submitted IPhone OS 3.0 breaks some apps that make phone calls as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  5. donmcc · 2010-05-03
    For learning your way around Cocoa Touch, I highly recommend Erica Sadun's "The iPhone Developer's Cookbook". I reviewed the first edition last year on my blog ( http://blog.ablepear.com/2009/03/book-review-iphone-develope... ). She recently released a second edition, which I haven't had a chance to read through yet, but is nearly twice as big as the first edition.

    Comment linking /2009/03/book-review-iphone-developers-cookbook_05.html

    on “Ask HN: Objective-C programming book”
  6. donmcc · 2009-04-27

    Submitted Love, Hate, C++ and Complexity as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  7. donmcc · 2012-10-15

    Submitted Bundling Python files into a stand-alone executable as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  8. donmcc · 2012-07-30

    Submitted Adding a Retina-ready icon to your Mac app in three easy steps as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  9. donmcc · 2011-10-06

    Submitted It seems too soon to lose Steve. There's yet so much more to do... as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  10. donmcc · 2011-08-02

    Submitted Objective-C Tuesdays: more about dynamic arrays as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  11. donmcc · 2011-07-19

    Submitted Objective-C Tuesdays: Strings in Objective-C as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  12. donmcc · 2011-06-15

    Submitted Chinese shanzhai counterfeiters practice customer development as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  13. donmcc · 2012-01-05

    Submitted Avoid agile dogma: recommendations not rules as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  14. donmcc · 2011-11-29

    Submitted Objective-C Tuesdays: Sorting Arrays as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  15. donmcc · 2011-07-19

    Submitted Objective-C Tuesdays: arrays as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  16. donmcc · 2011-07-12

    Submitted Objective-C Tuesdays: regular expressions as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  17. donmcc · 2011-05-11

    Submitted Native Mobile App or Web App? Wrong Question as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  18. donmcc · 2011-01-06

    Submitted How do you get to the Mac App Store? as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  19. donmcc · 2010-10-14

    Submitted A Fix for a Seemingly Random iOS App Network Failure as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  20. donmcc · 2010-09-28

    Submitted Objective-C Tuesdays: searching in strings as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  21. donmcc · 2010-08-09

    Submitted Loading device specific .xib files in a Universal app as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  22. donmcc · 2010-06-15

    Submitted Objective-C Tuesdays: C strings as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  23. donmcc · 2010-06-11

    Submitted Apple quietly announces the Safari Developer Program as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  24. donmcc · 2010-05-12

    Submitted IPad & iPhone wallpaper templates for designers and photographer as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  25. donmcc · 2010-05-11

    Submitted Objective-C Tuesdays: atomic and nonatomic properties as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  26. donmcc · 2010-05-10

    Submitted IPad & iPhone graph paper for designers and developers as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  27. donmcc · 2009-10-06

    Submitted Objective-C Tuesdays: The for loop as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  28. donmcc · 2009-05-14

    Submitted Clang Checker: Making your development and debugging life easier as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  29. donmcc · 2012-10-08

    Submitted Smart App Banners for Mobile Safari as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  30. donmcc · 2012-01-09

    Submitted The year ahead for Apple: the iPad dominates (and Apple TV)) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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