Alacatia Labs, Inc. bring you the most thorough investigation of undocumented CoreGraphics functions to date, with CGSInternal.

There’s a subversion repository as well if you’re keen to stay up to date.

While getting rid of extraneous junk in an application package is easy using Trimmit, the only way to prevent "code bloat" (and accompanying excess RAM and CPU usage) is through good programming practices. Where most developers fall short is in poor optimization of borrowed code. Let’s take CTGradient as an example as it’s well known and used (or more accurately, abused) in dozens of applications.

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Running Objective-C code from Javascript

Java, Python and Ruby can access Cocoa APIs and Objective-C classes. What about the super-extensible yet severely under-appreciated Javascript? With the WebKit framework, you can access Objective-C from any script present in a HTML document.

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