My Tool List (Monday, October 26, 2009) - One of the more popular thing's Scott Hanselman has done is maintain a tool List, essentially a list of applications and utilities that he's found useful. There are plenty of absolute gems in his list and rather than present my own I'd be very comfortable just pointing you to his... But what fun would that be? None! I also think there are a few more that I can add
Basic Authentication with a NSURLRequest in Cocoa Touch (Sunday, January 24, 2010) - While working on a certain unnamed iPhone app lately I ran across the need to use basic authentication in communication with REST services. For something that seems to be such a fundamental need for mobile applications I figured most of the work would be done for me. Turns out that's not the case. A few details are left up to you, the Cocoa Touch programmer. What
NSXML-like XPath Support in Cocoa Touch with TouchXML (Sunday, January 03, 2010) - I haven't done any real, serious iPhone development until recently. Sure, I tooled around a bit and even had a few false starts on projects, but not much came out. What killed me was that I had no real *idea*. Without a concrete goal in mind it was especially hard to wade through a platform so different from those which I'm used to. Well, that changed recently.
Asynchronous Programming in Cocoa Touch (Sunday, January 17, 2010) - It's unavoidable. Pretty much anywhere you go as a programmer these days concurrency is important. It's no less important on mobile platforms like the iPhone. In this post I intend to outline the fundamental techniques necessary for asynchronous programming on the iPhone. While these techniques could very well apply to standard, desktop Cocoa I'll focus on Cocoa
