Resetting categories

2012-07-07-nsindexset.md

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 title: NSIndexSet
 ref: "https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Cocoa/Reference/Foundation/Classes/NSSet_Class/Reference/Reference.html"
-category: Foundation
+category: Cocoa
 rating: 7.8
 description: "NSIndexSet (and its mutable counterpart, NSMutableIndexSet) is a sorted collection of unique unsigned integers. Think of it like an NSRange that supports non-contiguous series. It has wicked fast operations for finding indexes in ranges or set intersections, and comes with all of the convenience methods you'd expect in a Foundation collection class."
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2012-07-14-nscache.md

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 title: NSCache
 ref: "https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Cocoa/Reference/Foundation/Classes/NSCache_Class/Reference/Reference.html"
-category: Foundation
+category: Cocoa
 rating: 7.5
 description: "Poor NSCache, always being overshadowed by NSMutableDictionary. It's as if no one knew how it provides all of that garbage collection behavior that developers take great pains to re-implement themselves."
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2012-07-24-nssortdescriptor.md

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 title: NSSortDescriptor
 ref: "https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Cocoa/Reference/Foundation/Classes/NSSortDescriptor_Class/Reference/Reference.html"
-category: Foundation
+category: Cocoa
 rating: 8.4
 description: "Sorting: it's the mainstay of Computer Science 101 exams and whiteboarding interview questions. But when was the last time you actually needed to know how to implement Quicksort yourself?"
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2012-07-31-nsdatecomponents.md

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 title: NSDateComponents
 ref: "https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Cocoa/Reference/Foundation/Classes/NSDateComponents_Class/Reference/Reference.html"
-category: Foundation
+category: Cocoa
 rating: 6.9
 description: "NSDateComponents serves an important role in Foundation's date and time APIs. By itself, it's nothing impressive—just a container for information about a date (its month, year, day of month, week of year, or whether that month is a leap month). However, combined with NSCalendar, NSDateComponents becomes a remarkably convenient interchange format for calendar calculations."
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2012-08-06-cfstringtransform.md

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 title: CFStringTransform
 ref: "https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/CoreFOundation/Reference/CFMutableStringRef/Reference/reference.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/20001504-CH201-BCIGCACA"
-category: CoreFoundation
+category: Cocoa
 rating: 9.1
 description: "NSString is the crown jewel of Foundation. But as powerful as it is, one would be remiss not to mention its toll-free bridged cousin, CFMutableString—or more specifically, CFStringTransform."
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2012-08-13-nsincrementalstore.md

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 title: NSIncrementalStore
 ref: "https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/CoreData/Reference/NSIncrementalStore_Class/Reference/NSIncrementalStore.html"
-category: Foundation
+category: Cocoa
 rating: 9.5
 published: true
 description: Even for a blog dedicated to obscure APIs, <tt>NSIncrementalStore</tt> sets a new standard. It was introduced in iOS 5, with no more fanfare than the requisite entry in the SDK changelog. Ironically, it is arguably the most important thing to come out of iOS 5, which will completely change the way we build apps from here on out.

2012-08-20-nsoperation.md

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 title: NSOperation
 ref: "https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Cocoa/Reference/NSOperation_class/Reference/Reference.html"
-category: Foundation
+category: Cocoa
 rating: 9.0
 description: "Everyone knows that the secret to making an app snappy and responsive is to offload computation asynchronously to the background."
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2012-08-27-cfbag.md

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 title: CFBag
 ref: "https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/CoreFOundation/Reference/CFMutableBagRef/Reference/reference.html"
-category: CoreFoundation
+category: Cocoa
 rating: 7.2
 published: true
 description: "In the pantheon of collection data types in computer science, bag doesn't really have the same clout as lists, sets, associative arrays, trees, graphs, or priority queues. In fact, it's pretty obscure. You've probably never heard of it."

2012-09-03-nslocale.md

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 title: NSLocale
 ref: "https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Cocoa/Reference/Foundation/Classes/NSLocale_Class/Reference/Reference.html"
-category: Foundation
+category: Cocoa
 rating: 9.0
 published: true
 description: "Internationalization is like flossing: everyone knows they should do it, but probably don't."

2012-09-10-uiaccessibility.md

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 title: UIAccessibility
 ref: "http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/uikit/reference/UIAccessibility_Protocol/Introduction/Introduction.html"
-category: UIKit
+category: Cocoa
 rating: 10.0
 published: true
 description: "Accessibility, like internationalization, is one of those topics that's difficult to get developers excited about. But as you know, NSHipster is all about getting developers excited about this kind of stuff."

2012-09-17-nscharacterset.md

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 title: NSCharacterSet
 ref: "http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Cocoa/Reference/Foundation/Classes/nscharacterset_Class/Reference/Reference.html"
-category: Foundation
+category: Cocoa
 rating: 8.5
 published: true
 description: "Foundation boasts one of the best, most complete implementations of strings around. But a string implementation is only as good as the programmer who wields it. So this week, we're going to explore some common uses--and misuses--of an important part of the Foundation string ecosystem: NSCharacterSet."

2012-09-24-uicollectionview.md

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 title: UICollectionView
 ref: "https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/UIKit/Reference/UICollectionView_class/Reference/Reference.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40012177"
-category: UIKit
+category: Cocoa
 rating: 9.6
 published: true
 description: "UICollectionView single-handedly changes the way we will design and develop iOS apps from here on out. This is not to say that collection views are in any way unknown or obscure. But being an NSHipster isn't just about knowing obscure gems in the rough. Sometimes, it's about knowing about up-and-comers before they become popular and sell out."

2012-10-22-nslinguistictagger.md

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 title: NSLinguisticTagger
 ref: "http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/cocoa/reference/NSLinguisticTagger_Class/Reference/Reference.html"
-category: Foundation
+category: Cocoa
 rating: 9.7
 published: true
 description: "NSLinguisticTagger is a veritable Swiss Army Knife of linguistic functionality, with the ability to tokenize natural language strings into words, determine their part-of-speech & stem, extract names of people, places, & organizations, and tell you the languages & respective writing system used in the string."

2012-10-29-uilocalizedindexedcollation.md

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 title: UILocalizedIndexedCollation
 ref: "http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/iPhone/Reference/UILocalizedIndexedCollation_Class/UILocalizedIndexedCollation.html"
-category: UIKit
+category: Cocoa
 rating: 7.1
 published: true
 description: "UITableView starts to become unwieldy once it gets to a few hundred rows. If users are reduced to frantically scratching at the screen like a cat playing Fruit Ninja in order to get at what they want... you may want to rethink your UI approach."

2012-11-05-nsurlprotocol.md

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 title: NSURLProtocol
 ref: "https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Cocoa/Reference/Foundation/Classes/NSURLProtocol_Class/Reference/Reference.html"
-category: Foundation
+category: Cocoa
 rating: 7.4
 published: true
 description: "Foundation’s URL Loading System is something that every iOS developer would do well to buddy up with. And of all of networking classes and protocols of Foundation, NSURLProtocol is perhaps the most obscure and powerful."

2012-11-12-nsvaluetransformer.md

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 title: NSValueTransformer
 ref: "https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Cocoa/Reference/Foundation/Classes/NSValueTransformer_Class/Reference/Reference.html"
-category: Foundation
+category: Cocoa
 rating: 6.6
 published: true
 description: "Of all the Foundation classes, NSValueTransformer is perhaps the one that fared the worst in the shift from OS X to iOS. But you know what? It's ripe for a comeback. With a little bit of re-tooling and some recontextualization, this blast from the past could be the next big thing in your application."

2012-11-19-ns_enum-ns_options.md

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 title: "NS_ENUM & NS_OPTIONS"
 ref: "https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#releasenotes/General/APIDiffsMacOSX10_8/Foundation.html"
-category: Foundation
+category: Cocoa
 rating: 7.0
 tags: popular
 description: "A skilled Objective-C developer is able to gracefully switch between Objective and Procedural paradigms, and use each to their own advantage."

2012-11-26-nsorderedset.md

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 title: "NSOrderedSet"
 ref: "http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Foundation/Reference/NSOrderedSet_Class/Reference/Reference.html"
-category: Foundation
+category: Cocoa
 rating: 6.2
 published: true
 description: "Why isn't NSOrderedSet a subclass of NSSet? The answer may surprise you."

2012-12-03-kvc-collection-operators.md

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 title: "KVC Collection Operators"
 ref: "http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/cocoa/conceptual/KeyValueCoding/Articles/CollectionOperators.html"
-category: Foundation
+category: Cocoa
 rating: 7.9
 published: true
 description: "Rubyists laugh at Objective-C’s bloated syntax. Although we lost a few pounds over the summer with our sleek new object literals, those Red-headed bullies still taunt us with their map one-liners and their fancy Symbol#to_proc. Fortunately, Key-Value Coding has an ace up its sleeves."

2012-12-10-instancetype.md

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 title: instancetype
 ref: "http://clang.llvm.org/docs/LanguageExtensions.html#objc_instancetype"
-category: Foundation
+category: Cocoa
 rating: 7.3
 published: true
 description: "Objective-C is a rapidly evolving language, in a way that you just don't see in established programming languages. Developments range from the mundane to paradigm-changing, but telling the difference takes practice. Because we're talking about low-level language features, it's difficult to understand what implications they may have higher up with API design."

2012-12-17-cggeometry.md

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 title: CGGeometry
 ref: "https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/graphicsimaging/reference/CGGeometry/Reference/reference.html"
-category: CoreGraphics
+category: Cocoa
 rating: 8.0
 published: true
 description: "Unless you were a Math Geek or an Ancient Greek, Geometry was probably not your favorite subject in high school. No, chances are that you were that kid in class who dutifully programmed all of the necessary formulae into your TI-8X calculator. Keeping in the tradition of doing the least amount of math possible, here are some semi-obscure CoreGraphics functions to make your job easier."

2013-01-21-nslocalizedstring.md

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 title: NSLocalizedString
 ref: "https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/cocoa/reference/foundation/miscellaneous/foundation_functions/reference/reference.html"
-category: Foundation
+category: Cocoa
 rating: 9.5
 description: "Strings are perhaps the most versatile data type in computing. They're passed around as symbols, used to encode numeric values, associate values to keys, represent resource paths, store linguistic content, and format information. Having a strong handle on user-facing strings is essential to making a great user experience."
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2013-01-28-nsvalue.md

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 title: NSValue
 ref: "https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Cocoa/Reference/Foundation/Classes/NSValue_Class/Reference/Reference.html"
-category: Foundation
+category: Cocoa
 rating: 6.0
 description: "Boxing is the process of encapsulating scalars and value types with an object container, and is primarily used to store those values in collection objects—namely arrays and dictionaries. In Foundation, the reigning featherweight champion of boxing is NSValue."
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2013-02-11-nsurlcache.md

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 title: NSURLCache
 ref: "https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Cocoa/Reference/Foundation/Classes/NSURLCache_Class/Reference/Reference.html"
-category: Foundation
+category: Cocoa
 rating: 8.7
 description: "NSURLCache provides a composite in-memory and on-disk caching mechanism for URL requests to your application. As part of Foundation's URL Loading System, any request loaded through NSURLConnection will be handled by NSURLCache."
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2013-02-25-nsassertionhandler.md

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 title: NSAssertionHandler
 ref: "https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Cocoa/Reference/Foundation/Classes/NSAssertionHandler_Class/Reference/Reference.html"
-category: Foundation
+category: Cocoa
 rating: 5.6
 description: "Programming incorporates numerous disciplines of human reasoning, from high-level discourse and semantics—the story we tell each other to explain how a system works—to the mathematical and philosophical machinery that underpins everything."
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2013-03-11-uiappearance.md

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 title: UIAppearance
 ref: "http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/uikit/reference/UIAppearance_Protocol/Reference/Reference.html"
-category: UIKit
+category: Cocoa
 rating: 8.0
 published: true
 description: "UIAppearance allows the appearance of views and controls to be consistently defined across the entire application."

2013-04-15-nssecurecoding.md

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 title: NSSecureCoding
 ref: "http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Foundation/Reference/NSSecureCoding_Protocol_Ref/content/NSSecureCoding.html"
-category: Foundation
+category: Cocoa
 rating: 6.0
 description: "A short post for this week: everything you need to know about NSSecureCoding."
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2013-04-29-mklocalsearch.md

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 title: MKLocalSearch
 ref: "http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/MapKit/Reference/MKLocalSearch/Reference/Reference.html"
-category: MapKit
+category: Cocoa
 rating: 7.1
 description: "In all of the hubbub of torch burning and pitchfork raising, you may have completely missed a slew of additions to MapKit in iOS 6.1."
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2013-05-13-nscoding.md

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 title: NSCoding / NSKeyedArchiver
 ref: "https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Cocoa/Reference/Foundation/Protocols/NSCoding_Protocol/Reference/Reference.html"
-category: Foundation
+category: Cocoa
 rating: 7.5
 description: "Among the most important architectural decisions made when building an app is how to persist data between launches. The question of how, exactly, to re-create the state of the app from the time it was last opened; of how to describe the object graph in such a way that it can be flawlessly reconstructed next time."
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2013-06-02-nsdatadetector.md

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 title: NSDataDetector
 ref: "https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Foundation/Reference/NSDataDetector_Class/Reference/Reference.html"
-category: Foundation
+category: Cocoa
 rating: 9.4
 description: "Until humanity embraces RDF for all of their daily interactions, a large chunk of artificial intelligence is going to go into figuring out what the heck we're all talking about. Fortunately for Cocoa developers, there's NSDataDetector."
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2013-06-24-uuid-udid-unique-identifier.md

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 title: NSUUID /<br/>CFUUIDRef /<br/>UIDevice -uniqueIdentifier /<br/>-identifierForVendor
 ref: "http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Foundation/Reference/NSUUID_Class/Reference/Reference.html"
-category: Foundation
+category: Cocoa
 rating: 7.0
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2013-07-01-enumerators.md

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 title: "NSFastEnumeration /<br/>NSEnumerator /<br/>-enumerateObjectsUsingBlock:"
 ref: "http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/cocoa/reference/NSFastEnumeration_protocol/Reference/NSFastEnumeration.html"
-category: Foundation
+category: Cocoa
 rating: 7.8
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2013-07-08-nsexpression.md

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 title: NSExpression
 ref: "http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/cocoa/reference/foundation/Classes/NSExpression_Class/Reference/NSExpression.html"
-category: Foundation
+category: Cocoa
 rating: 9.0
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2013-07-15-nspredicate.md

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 title: NSPredicate
 ref: "https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Cocoa/Reference/Foundation/Classes/NSPredicate_Class/Reference/NSPredicate.html"
-category: Foundation
+category: Cocoa
 tags: popular
 rating: 9.2
 description: "NSPredicate is a Foundation class that specifies how data should be fetched or filtered. Its query language, which is like a cross between a SQL WHERE clause and a regular expression, provides an expressive, natural language interface to define logical conditions on which a collection is searched."

2013-07-22-uimenucontroller.md

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 title: UIMenuController
 ref: ""
-category: UIKit
+category: Cocoa
 rating: 7.6
 description: "Mobile usability today is truly quite remarkable—especially considering how far it's come in just the last decade. What was once a clumsy technology relegated to the tech elite has now become the primary mode of computation for a significant portion of the general population."
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2013-08-19-nshashtable-and-nsmaptable.md

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 title: "NSHashTable &<br/>NSMapTable"
 ref: "http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/DOCUMENTATION/Cocoa/Reference/NSMapTable_class/Reference/NSMapTable.html"
-category: Foundation
+category: Cocoa
 rating: 7.2
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2013-10-07-key-value-observing.md

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 title: "Key-Value Observing"
 ref: "https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/KeyValueObserving/KeyValueObserving.html"
-category: Foundation
+category: Cocoa
 rating: 5.4
 description: "Ask anyone who's been around the NSBlock a few times: Key-Value Observing has the _worst_ API in all of Cocoa. It's awkward, verbose, and confusing. And worst of all, its terrible API belies one of the most compelling features of the framework."
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2013-10-14-nserror.md

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 title: NSError
 ref: "https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Cocoa/Reference/Foundation/Classes/NSError_Class/Reference/Reference.html"
-category: Foundation
+category: Cocoa
 rating: 9.5
 description: "NSError is the unsung hero of the Foundation framework. Passed gallantly in and out of perilous method calls, it is the messenger by which we are able to contextualize our failures."
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2013-11-18-nsfilemanager.md

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 title: NSFileManager
-category: "Foundation"
+category: Cocoa
 rating: 7.9
 description: "File systems are a complex topic, with decades of history, vestigial complexities, and idiosyncrasies, and is well outside the scope of a single article. And since most applications don't often interact with the file system much beyond simple file operations, one can get away with only knowing the basics."
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2013-12-02-nsnotification-and-nsnotificationcenter.md

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 title: "NSNotification &<br/>NSNotificationCenter"
-category: "Foundation"
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+category: Cocoa
 tags: popular
->>>>>>> Stashing
 rating: 8.4
 description: "Any idea is inextricably linked to how its communicated. A medium defines the form and scale of significance in such a way to shape the very meaning of an idea. Very truly, the medium is the message."
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2013-12-16-launch-options.md

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 title: "UIApplicationDelegate<br/>launchOptions"
-category: "UIKit"
+category: Cocoa
 rating: 8.5
 description: "AppDelegate is the dumping ground for functionality in iOS."
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2014-01-13-nsrange.md

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 title: NSRange
-category: "Foundation"
+category: Cocoa
 rating: 7.2
 description: "NSRange is one of the essential types of Foundation. Passed around and returned in methods throughout the framework, being well-versed in this struct has a range of benefits."
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2014-02-03-mktileoverlay-mkmapsnapshotter-mkdirections.md

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 title: "MKTileOverlay,<br/>MKMapSnapshotter &<br/>MKDirections"
 ref: "https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/MapKit/Reference/MapKit_Framework_Reference/_index.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40008210"
-category: MapKit
+category: Cocoa
 rating: 9.0
 description: "Unless you work with MKMapView. on a regular basis, the last you may have heard about the current state of cartography on iOS may not have been under the cheeriest of circumstances. Therefore, it may come as a surprise maps on iOS have gotten quite a bit better in the intervening releases. Quite good, in fact."
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