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I've been answering a lot of questions by novice devs or people new to iOS. Of course they all make the same mistakes (that I did) so I wonder:

is there an established place to post a list of things for novices to do,

such as:

  • Clean all targets, Reset Contents and Settings in the simulator
  • Enable NSZombieEnabled
  • Learn to use NSLog
  • Pushing a view onto a null nav controller does not work
  • Send message to nil object no-ops
  • Hook up your IBOutlets to your properties

  • Release any memory you own

    etc.

Update: Here's a link to a blog entry - is this appropriate for the iphone tag wiki? Thanks.

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    This sounds like a great idea for a blog post.
    – Bill the Lizard
    May 6, 2011 at 1:27
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    ... or the tag wiki.
    – Pops
    May 6, 2011 at 2:56
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    Had to read this three times before I figured out it was on topic
    – user1228
    May 6, 2011 at 14:15

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You could edit the tag wiki and add the necessary information as short pieces of information or as links to external resources.

https://stackoverflow.com/tags/iphone/info

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If there are other answers on Stack Overflow covering these issues, point them to these answers. I believe most of them have been covered already.

The problem then becomes how to catalogue these answers. I believe a tag wiki would be the best place to gather them, and you could refer users to the tag wiki.

And now the problem becomes: which tag? It seems that users on Stack Overflow prefer the tag, although many other tags are related and more suitable for some of those questions: , , , (and variations), and variations.

I think there have been efforts on meta to organise tags related to iOS and Mac OS X development. I’m not sure if there’s been consensus, though.

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Rather than fill the tag wiki with what could be a lot of detail, how about creating in the same vein as (see https://stackoverflow.com/tags/c%2b%2b-faq/info). Then, all you need to do is tag all the already written questions with this tag and fill in the blanks. Relevant discussion (for C++) here.

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    Better yet, [ios-faq]. I cringe when people call it iPhone OS...
    – CodaFi
    Jun 29, 2012 at 9:37
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If you already have written answers for it, then write a question for it as well:

Q: What are common mistakes for iPhone?

A: this, this and this(links)

Answer it yourself, and then anytime someone has a question which can be fully answered by your answer, vote to close as a duplicate.

I'd get feedback on this answer before actually doing it though. I'm not sure how people feel about closing a question as duplicate, just because another answer works for them(though, the question itself is not a duplicate)

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    -1, list of x question.
    – Pops
    May 6, 2011 at 2:56

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