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
