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Apart from how powerful and flexible NSArray in Objective-C is, there are times that you need to sort many arrays throughout the projects. The standard way of sorting arrays in Objective-C is to use one of: sortedArrayHint sortedArrayUsingFunction:context: sortedArrayUsingFunction:context:hint: sortedArrayUsingDescriptors: sortedArrayUsingSelector: (See the official documentation) But what if all you need is just a simple…
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Most people use versioning systems like Subversion, Mercurial, and git to maintain their code while working on software and web projects. There are also hosted solutions like github and bitbucket providing developers with more features than a traditional version control environment. But sometimes you just want to keep your code in a safe place and…