The .NET Addict's Blog

MobileMe vs. Live Mesh Throwdown - Round 1

To someone in my position, who follows both Microsoft (.NET) news and Apple (Cocoa) news, the comparing and contrasting between MobileMe and Live Mesh as developer platforms is inevitable. Here's my first stab at a comparison

Posted: Jul. 16, 2008 06:33 AM

Lack of Blog posts

Just thought i would take a few minutes to apologize for the lack of blog posts lately

Posted: Jul. 15, 2008 09:00 PM

How to upset someone you admire with one blog post

I recently posted a blog about consuming a POX service with Cocoa. At the same time I managed to upset someone that I admire. This is what happens when bloggers don't have copy editors!

Posted: Jul. 10, 2008 06:46 AM

Creating a RESTful POX Service using the ASP.NET MVC Framework

In a previous blog entry, I talked about how to consume a POX service using Cocoa. In this entry, I talk about how to create that POX service using ASP.NET MVC and how incredibly easy it is. Makes you wonder why anybody uses SOAP anymore...

Posted: Jul. 9, 2008 12:40 PM

My MSDN Magazine Article is now available

Recently I wrote an article for MSDN Magazine. The subject of the article is about planning for and designing state maintenance and sharing within peer networks. Overall I think the article turned out quite well.

Posted: Jul. 8, 2008 03:20 PM

Another Microsoft Developer Falls Victim to Framework Myopia

Recently a Microsoft developer posted a blog entry detailing a very negative experience he had with the iPhone SDK, Cocoa, and Xcode. MS developers allowing their first impression to taint their view of Mac programming is common, but easily corrected

Posted: Jul. 8, 2008 08:16 AM

Van meets iPhone, programmer squeals with joy, film at 11.

Last night I made a hands-free call from my new in-dash Pioneer combo GPS/XM radio unit and I was squealing with joy, knowing full well the rest of the world has been doing this for years.

Posted: Jul. 2, 2008 09:50 AM

Consuming an ASP.NET MVC POX Service from Cocoa

In this blog post I'll take a look at the Objective-C/Cocoa code required to consume a POX service hosted by an ASP.NET MVC application.

Posted: Jun. 30, 2008 10:39 AM

Consuming a WSDL Web Service From Cocoa - Failed Attempt #1

I've said it many times before and I'll continue to say it - I hate WSDL. I've never liked the standard and I've always thought it was overly complex. I don't like the idea of adding layers of complexity that introduce friction in

Posted: Jun. 27, 2008 09:13 AM

Building Model Classes in C# and Cocoa

An extremely common thing that everyone has to do is build simple model objects. The problem is, everyone's documentation varies. This post shows C# developers how to build a Cocoa model object in a way they're familiar with

Posted: Jun. 15, 2008 11:13 AM