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Synchronous vs asynchronous networking programming
When I first started learning how to write code, everything I wrote was done sequentially with some goto loops; it waited for input, did something and then waited for more input. When I started writing network code on Mac OS, I had to fumble through Universal Procedure Pointers (UPP) in order to wait for connections and not block the user interface. Now that we're into the golden age of Mac OS X and iOS, those days are behind us. Most network programming is done with NSURLConnection either the synchronous or asynchronous calls.
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More pitfalls to synchronous networking
Anyone that reads my blog or talks to me professionally knows how much I hate dislike asynchronous network programming. While working on rewriting some networking code, I came across a few more reasons why synchronous networking is a poor decision.
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Authentication security in iOS apps
When I read a post that John Gruber wrote today about OAuth in native Twitter apps and how much of a poor user experience it is/will be, I had to dig deeper into the article. On first read of the article, I disagreed with him as I thought he missed a very important point about security, but upon re-reading it, he did identify one of the major issues with how OAuth (and other types of service authentication) is done on iOS, in particular.
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Surviving the spring storm
Yesterday, I was interviewed about the spring storm that was going to happen today. I found it pretty humorous that any storm in San Diego especially a spring "storm", makes the news. Today the "storm" hit and it dumped so much rain that by 4 pm, the ground was just about dry and it was sunny! I went for a run and mistakenly wore a long sleeved shirt; it was far too warm for it even though the spring storm was supposed to bring cold air.