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OAuth is a perfect solution for authentication with other web apps. The problem is, it just sucks for native apps. You know the typical workflow for apps. Open, enter credentials, it works. Now here’s what OAuth looks: Yes, it quit’s the app, opens Safari, and then restarts the App. Yes, this sucks. But see for yourself [...]

Like buttons are everywhere, so this is supposed to be easy with the facebook-iphone-sdk. It is not. Liking is not a supported action from the SDK. Only via facebooks iframe. I present you a clever workaround, that even uses the sdk to display a *conventional* facebook login in a way the user knows.

That took long. I am parsing RSS, but _one_ particular feed would not parse, the console screamed “NSXMLParserErrorDomain error 9″. So some stuff in encoding was weird. I replicated the feed on my server, voila, worked like a charm. http://beta.feedvalidator.org finally brought some light into the issue: “Your feed appears to be encoded as “UTF-8″, [...]

Today’s twitter feeds stumbled me about this awesome article on “whatever happened to voice recognition”. Having tried and used speech recognition myself (all started on my 400 mhz celeron … oh boy…) i really agree on the article’s essence. They just don’t get it right – and it’s more or less impossible to really get [...]