Development

Retrieving files for document directory

March 21st, 2012 posted in Apps Developement Objective-C

Ever had the need to retrieve data stored in the document directory of you iOS application. Well surprisingly Xcode can help you.
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Deprecating uniqueIdentifier is a good thing.

March 9th, 2012 posted in Apps Developement Objective-C

Since iOS 5 was first in beta many developers started complaining about the fact that the [[UIDevice currentDevice] uniqueIdentifier] got deprecated.
Some developer even stated that is was the worst idea Apple ever had.

Well I don’t agree with them, this is about the smartest thing they did. If only for the privacy of the user.

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JSON parsing

August 23rd, 2011 posted in Web technology

Many people have written about parsing JSON data on the iPhone, but why use JSON and not XML.
Well this has to do with overhead, JSON is smaller in it’s mark-up then XML thus it will take less traffic on the cellular network.

But there are some drawback in using JSON, since there is no real strict way of checking the model. Like DTD is for XML.
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