Category Archives: How-To

Look! UIAlertView is dating UITableView!

Written by marc on July 15, 2009 — Leave a Comment

As you may have guessed, this is about UIAlertView containing a UITableView. Since I started playing around with GameKit, I had the issue that I couldn’t use the PeerPicker with Client/Server stuff.. I can’t really get into the stuff we are doing and where we are using it – but I can offer you some [...]

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Use pastie.org with LaunchBar

Written by marc on January 8, 2009 — 11 Comments

Since a while, I’m having senile insomnia, so I thought, I should use it for good. One thing that always bugs me at work is the work with pastie (or any other paste-thing) because of the copy – paste – copy thing. So I wrote a very little script to use it with LaunchBar. What [...]

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A short note on CLLocation / CLLocationManager

Written by marc on July 25, 2008 — 3 Comments

**** DEPRECATED **** Use http://liip.to/ilocator Well.. I’ve been testing this Locator quite a while now. Today I had my final attempt, to find out, why I always got either a cached location or an extremely inaccurate location. Today, I went out with my notebook (yes, there where the sun is..) to debug. The example of apple says, [...]

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Make NSXMLParser your friend..

Written by marc on July 23, 2008 — 29 Comments

Update: Since this is my most read blog article and it’s now 2 years old, one would think that things have changed, and they have. 2 Things: First, if you are free to choose between any API data representation, use JSON or plist, JSON is especially nice, because it’s very small and can be parsed [...]

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