cocos2d: CCLabelTTF child of CCSprite inherits parent scale

Much teeth gnashing tonight.  I am working on my next game idea – another kids math game using cocos2d.  It took me quite a while to figure out that if I add a label to a sprite – in this case, the math number to be answered – that it inherits from the scale of [...]

Simple iOS Key Value Observing (KVO) Explained

There’s not as much on KVO when you google as there is on other forms of object-to-object communication.  I found a lot on Notification, for example.  But KVO is potentially much simpler.  I suspect that Notification is used more often because you can do a ‘chain of responsibility’ for an event as opposed to just [...]