All I see, All I say, All I am

Just a quick tip.  When I run a project in XCode and see a bunch of unformatted comments pop up in my gdb console I cringe.  Those logs are NOT helpful, fun to look at, or dig through to see where the messages are coming from.

Something I like to do is log a message containing the __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ string right after a method gets fired.  This makes it easy to make a half assed ‘backtrace’ when you need to figure out where things are breaking.

Just use the following:

NSLog(@"%s", __PRETTY_FUNCTION__);

Something else I like to do is use the NSLogger project so I can filter log messages by severity.  Just use the same technique described above with a macro that calls NSLogger with the lowest priority and you’ve got pretty useful system for logging that is searchable and allows adjustment of noise.  Also NSLogger has bonjour integration so that’s quite nice for reading logs from a device that isn’t actually plugged into your dev machine.