I\'ve been working on an iPhone app for the past month and am interested in open

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I've been working on an iPhone app for the past month and am interested in open sourcing some of its code. I built a few categories that others might find useful for generating filler data during testing and debugging, and I also made a view controller for displaying images that others might like to include in their own projects.

How do you go about packaging these types of things (categories, view controllers, etc.) for sharing? What are some naming conventions I should keep in mind? Is it standard practice to preface open source code with initials (EGOTableViewPullRefresh, MGImageUtilities, etc.)? Should I make an example xcode project which shows how they can be used? Should I make a webpage to document and/or promote these things? Is automated documentation generated from comments a good way to go? What sorts of licensing should I be considering?

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I really like when open source projects have SIMPLE easy to use demo projects. I also really like when they have detailed instructions of how to get the stuff working (header files you need, frameworks you need to include, etc.)

Prefixing your classes with initials is how people get around objective-c's lack of namespaces. If you're building a REST framework and you call everything a PostRequest or a GetRequest, odds are good you'll conflict with something. So if you prefix it with your initials or your company's initials, you probably won't conflict.

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