Inquisitive Cocoa

@interface UIImage (AJKImageWithPDF)
 
+ (UIImage *)imageWithPDFNamed:(NSString *)pdfName;
+ (UIImage *)imageWithPDFNamed:(NSString *)pdfName scale:(CGFloat)scale;
 
@end

A small category for iOS to create an image from a .pdf file with as little fuss as possible: UIImage+WithPDF. It makes no attempt to cache images in any way. Realeased under the MIT License.

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Here’s this mornings little productivity optimisation.. For ages I’ve had xc bound to open *.xcodeproj but that only works within the root directory of a project.. so heres a simple ruby script to open the Xcode project, either within the current working directory or within any of it’s parent directories. I have it aliased to ‘xc’ for easy triggering. Script updated to open a .xcworkspace if there is one otherwise falling back to the .xcodeproj.

Updated: 25/02/15 with the new code to favour workspaces

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Another category on NSString. This one converts a string containing characters that are special to HTML into their HTML entities.

& becomes &
< becomes &lt;
> becomes &gt;
And so on..

It’s loosely based on a similar category in the Google Toolbox. It’s written with a bias towards simplicity rather than efficiency.. and it’s on GitHub: http://github.com/inquisitiveSoft/NSString-EscapeHTMLCharacters under the MIT License.

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