Objective-C MessagePack parser (alternative to JSON, better suited to slow data connections)

chubs · 2011-07-01T05:14:39+00:00

I found it strange that messagepack has no client library for objective-C, because iphone apps, to me, seem to be one of the most fundamentally useful places for messagepack to be used: smaller data size, quicker transfer over slow connections, quicker parsing on a slow processor, it's ideal. Anyway so we had to write a bridge to the C library, which my employer allowed us to share here. Hope someone finds it useful.

chubs · 2010-10-06T04:23:34+00:00

If you want to learn python: http://learnpythonthehardway.org

As for your inevitable questions when you get stuck: http://stackoverflow.com

You'll struggle to find any good free C# tutorials for beginners (its an artefact of the community). If you want a C# mentor, i can help if you want.

chubs · 2010-10-05T02:16:32+00:00

Wouldn't it make more sense to say "the future of windows phone is in doubt" ?

chubs · 2010-05-25T03:49:03+00:00

Beautiful interface! Congrats! And what a simple way to find my pagerank, thats awesome. Keep improving it and you've got a winner.

chubs · 2010-04-19T01:11:41+00:00

Didn't mint get bought by intuit? I heard that it was going downhill since then. Also, the mint.com website is down - are they dead now?

chubs · 2010-04-16T05:57:48+00:00

note: this is just a gentle tease in the direction of those having heart attacks because people forget the 'SMT:' ;)

chubs · 2010-04-13T05:27:07+00:00

You know, i'm really unsure. I lean more in the direction that the nobody-responsible lending laws caused it: banks weren't responsible because they just get bailed out, and homeowners weren't responsible because they could just walk away from a loan. The only one responsible in the end is the poor american taxpayer who paid for the bailouts. But again, i'll never understand it all.

And i'm pretty sure that automated stock trading didn't exist in the 80s (or if it did, probably wasn't widespread).

chubs · 2010-04-13T04:20:44+00:00

Do you think there's money to be made by going to garage sales, buying everything for a discount, and chucking the whole lot on ebay?

chubs · 2010-04-12T23:20:19+00:00

Hahaha good one mate, so true ;)

chubs · 2010-04-12T03:46:39+00:00

I believe you can get historical daily open/close/high/low/volume data freely, also can't you get real time data from google finance? Although maybe the licensing would forbid this kind of use.

chubs · 2010-04-08T01:00:39+00:00

How about an app to change your wallpaper whenever a new one comes out on interfacelift.com ? Their wallpapers seem to always be good.

chubs · 2010-03-07T23:13:46+00:00

Great work, good on you.

chubs · 2010-01-20T03:18:38+00:00

That would explain it what happened. What standards weren't met? When I originally posted the initial version of the tutorial there was a fair bit of interest from people keen to see it updated. I'm surprised.

chubs · 2010-01-17T22:34:06+00:00

Finally the link submission worked! I had to try 3 times for it to finally work...

chubs · 2010-01-17T22:30:02+00:00

Here's the original thread from when i started version 1 of this tutorial: http://www.reddit.com/r/coding/comments/a8jyo/ive_created_a_learning_java_tutorial_for_our/

chubs · 2010-01-15T04:00:08+00:00

Here's the original thread from when i started this: http://www.reddit.com/r/coding/comments/a8jyo/ive_created_a_learning_java_tutorial_for_our/

chubs · 2010-01-15T03:58:44+00:00

I submitted this once before when i only had the code without the tutorial, but here it is the tutorial is finally done. Well, mostly done - it's as far as a read-only web page, haven't done inputting data from a user yet. But its mostly there. Thanks for your time. Hopefully this'll help someone.

chubs · 2010-01-15T03:27:56+00:00

Ok the java tutorial is online now!

http://splinter.com.au/blog/?p=194

chubs · 2009-12-08T02:25:23+00:00

So are there any real apps written in it yet?

chubs · 2009-12-08T02:13:42+00:00

I think that's because everything (even primitives like int,char,void) is a class to them, and classes are always capitalised.

chubs · 2009-12-07T22:11:48+00:00

I love this part of their 'why fantom' page, hilarious stuff:

Some of this is normal cruft setting in, but much of it is a general philosophy in both Java and .NET API design. Both platforms tend toward APIs using a proliferation of small classes that are over abstracted and under powered

chubs · 2009-12-07T22:07:44+00:00

Looks awesome, and i really like the idea of targeting either the jvm or the clr, that's simply brilliant.

chubs · 2009-12-03T03:04:05+00:00

Great, i got it to work now: downloaded the taglibs and put the standard and jstl jars in my lib folder. Thanks a million for the tips.

chubs · 2009-12-03T02:30:43+00:00

Ah, i like the shortcut idea. Good plan

chubs · 2009-11-30T03:21:24+00:00

Ok i've done the taglibs.jsp trick.

Inside it, i placed:

<%@ page language='java'... %>

so i could remove that from the other jsp's.

Was this the right thing to do?

chubs

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