[tylerc230]

CocoaPods (http://cocoapods.org/) is a really easy way to integrate 3rd party libraries into your iOS and OSX projects. It follows a similar pattern to bundler for ruby; you just specify a library by name and a version number in your Podfile and CocoaPods handles the rest. Another suggestion is to use categories on Cocoa classes for operations you do often. It cuts down on code duplication and makes your code more readable. One I use in every single project is a category on UIView allowing me to do such things as 'myView.x = 5.f' instead of pulling out the views frame, updating the frame and then setting the frame again. I also agree with the other commenters that IB should be utilized when possible. It makes iterating on UIs much faster, easier and less error prone. +1 for using blocks though, how did we ever get by before?