Two Killer Development Tools

I live in XCode and it’s incredible, but there are two other development tools that I use regularly which have become indispensable.

The first is “Accessorizer”

Written by Kevin Callahan, this app literally changed the way I wrote code, and saves me hours per day. I use to be lazy about writing clean accessor methods. Not any more! Accessorizer takes care of all the mindless typing, and ensures that I don’t make any typo’s. The biggest source of memory leaks is sloppy handling of member variables. Accessorizer makes sure you don’t make mistakes. I would surely have had a terminal case of carpal-tunnel syndrome by now if it weren’t for Accessorizer.

The second tool is “OmniObjectMeter”.

I’m a new user of this app. I just discovered they have a beta that works on 10.4. I alway figured that ObjectAlloc was good enough, but I was wrong. OmniObjectMeter makes it so simple. Finding leaks is still time consuming, but it’s the best tool for tracking down each alloc, release and autorelease. 4.0.2 will be released shortly with a few memory leaks plugged. Thank you Omni!