[jsankey]

Pretty good tips. Re: being aware of retain cycles -- this is not just for blocks but really in general. When you start out you should immediately learn the conventions and adhere to them strictly. (Unfortunately the APIs don't always, I'm looking at you NSURLConnection!)

Another tip: try both Xcode and AppCode: http://www.jetbrains.com/objc/. It's a subjective thing but for myself AppCode is far better (it helps that I also use IDEA for Java, including Android).

[mikec3k]

As annoying as Xcode can be sometimes, I can't stand AppCode. It doesn't feel like a native app, and it seems very fiddly and even less user friendly than Xcode.