Archive for September, 2010
Presentation: Finding & Fixing Mem Leaks
Tuesday, September 21st, 2010
Last Friday I gave a talk at FITC Mobile 2010 called “Finding and Fixing Memory Leaks in iOS Apps”. As promised during the presentation, I’m making both the slides and code from the presentation available. You can read the presentation slides on SlideShare:
The Menu button in the bottom left will allow you to view it fullscreen, if you wish. It can be downloaded as a PDF if you click “view on SlideShare” and click the “Download” button at the top of the presentation.
When you get to the code part, you can download the sample project here:
http://www.streamingcolour.com/presentations/memLeakExampleProject.zip
Note: The code and sample project are distributed under the MIT License. See the README inside the zip file for details on what that specifically means, but basically you’re free to use the code however you want as long as you keep the copyright notice and don’t blame me for anything. 
I hope those of you who attended the talk found it useful.
Update (2010-09-21 – 5:44PM) - If you’re not familiar with the Leaks Instrument tool, have a read through my tutorial on how to use it. I demonstrated how to use the tool during the session, but there were no slides for that part: Tutorial: Tracking iPhone Memory Leaks with Instruments
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FITC Mobile 2010
Tuesday, September 7th, 2010
Can you believe it’s September already? Where did the summer go? Here in Southern Ontario we didn’t even get a transition; it was 33C one day, then two days later it was 12C. Anyway, I digress. With fall comes back to school (for those still in school), and the start of a new season of conferences!
I’m going to be speaking at FITC Mobile in Toronto, running Sept 16-18, 2010. I’m giving a talk on memory leaks in iOS on Friday the 17th, from 12:00-1:00pm. Specifically, I’ll be talking about memory management, what a memory leak is, some common ways they’re introduced in iOS programming, and show you how to use the tools to track them down and fix them. If you’re an iOS programmer and you’re coming to FITC Mobile, I hope you’ll check out my talk. Bring your coding hat, though; I’m going to be showing code, and actually demonstrating stuff in Xcode.
I hope to see you there!
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