Tag Archives: Objective C

Unit Testing / iPhone

Having Eclipse & JUnit in mind I missed unit testing quite a bit while developing with XCode for iPhone. As a first shot, I set SenTestingKit up as explained by it’s author and it works really nicely. One thing I still miss is Step’n’Trace debugging the tests. Other intros to the topic from Apple about [...]

NSURLCache Joke / iPhone

Did you ever wonder why Apple’s own Demo App URLCache doesn’t use the NSURLCache class, but rather reimplements disk caching instead? Well, it looks like NSURLCache promises disk-caching, but doesn’t keep this promise. Did you ever wonder why Apple’s own Demo App URLCache doesn’t use the NSURLCache class, but rather reimplements disk caching instead? Well, [...]

NSURLConnection gzip magic

For quite some time I ranted about not being able to use compressed network communcation out-of-the-box on the iPhone. Despite being undocumented (or I just overlooked the hint), NSURLConnection does gzip decompression transparently! That’s how to use it: For quite some time I ranted about not being able to use compressed network communcation out-of-the-box on [...]

CoreData – Hello World.

CoreData ist im iPhone OS 3.0 ganz frisch dazugekommen und riecht auch noch ein wenig nach Plastik. Leider ist der Beispielcode auf den Apple auch im iPhone CoreData Tutorial immer wieder verweist (Locations Sample Project) dem Umzug der OS 3.0 beta um Opfer gefallen. Also los geht’s zum ersten Schritt: CoreData ist im iPhone OS [...]

Objective C geht bei den Buchverkäufen

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