Backing Your iOS App With WCF JSON Web Services
There is very little doubt that iOS is one of the most compelling targets for developers who want to build free or paid applications for mobile devices. The iOS SDK is, in my opinion, one of the best...
View ArticleWhat I’ve Been Up To Lately
I was originally thinking of framing this post in the form of an apology. For example, “I’m so terribly sorry that I haven’t been posting to this blog lately.” I’m not going to do that, however. While...
View ArticlePraise the Lord and Pass the Ketchup: Automatic Reference Counting in...
Before I get to the post, let me drop this disclaimer: There is nothing in this post that violates NDA. I took all of the information for this post from the following documentation found online on the...
View ArticleStruggling with SSL and Cloud-Backed Mobile Applications
While it is still certainly very common for mobile developers to build applications that stand on their own and do not communicate with the Internet, every day more and more mobile applications are...
View ArticleiOS and Mac OS X Convergence Continues with Mountain Lion
Just the other day, Apple announced the major features coming up in their new operating system release, Mac OS X Mountain Lion. Before going into details on Mountain Lion, it’s worth remembering here...
View ArticleInitial thoughts on the new iPad
Yesterday I received an early birthday present, a white 32GB WiFi iPad 3. To give you some proper background, I have owned at least one of all generations of the iPhone except the current 4s (the “s”...
View ArticleUsing Attributed Strings in iOS6
The title of this blog post should read something like “Hallelujah!” or “It’s about freaking time!” because this feature is long, long, long overdue. Way back in iOS 3.2, Apple allowed the...
View ArticleDetails Released on Surface for Windows 8 Pro
According to Microsoft, here are some of the details that we’ve been waiting to find out regarding the Windows Surface Pro (Surface running Windows 8 Pro): It looks, from a hardware and form factor...
View ArticleWhy Apple GameCenter is Still Annoying for Developers
Ever since GameCenter and GameKit (the SDK for GameCenter) were made available for iOS and subsequently made available for OS X developers, there has been an explosion of new games on the market. Some...
View ArticleSending Protocol Buffer Messages from iOS to a Socket Server
In a previous blog post, I took a look at how to create an Akka socket server using Akka IO that would read incoming messages in the form of Google Protocol Buffers. The information on the wire was...
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