I have been creating some posts for the smith Micro blog and, even when some of the content have been covered many times here, I thought it can be interesting to some users here.
http://blog.smithmicro.com/5-steps-to-c ... ime-studio

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Here are some other topics. There will be more in the future:
http://blog.smithmicro.com/author/victor-paredes
I hope you enjoy it!