Simple RSS reader for iPhone using PureMVC Standard for Objective-C
February 8th, 2009
Few weeks ago Cliff Hall announced the release of PureMVC Objective-C Port by Brian Knorr. Brian also provided a very helpful demo called “Employee Admin“.
To dive into the Objective-C port of PureMVC as quick as possible I have built a another demo. It’s a pretty simple RSS reader for iPhone or iPod touch, which grabs a feed of a blog and shows the latest 10 entries in detail.
Free iPhone app for Flex User Group Hamburg (incl. source code)
January 27th, 2009
[UPDATE 02/11/09] flexughh app is available on iTunes store! All links has been updated. Get it for free 
It’s done! My first iPhone app is uploaded to Apple’s app store. It’s an app for the Flex UG in Hamburg / Germany, called “flexughh”. Because I’m very excited about all the enthusiastic flexughh-members I decided to offer this app for free including its full source code written in Objective-C as open source!
Today I will present the new flexughh app at our flexughh-Meeting. If you don’t have the chance to attend it, here are some screen shots.
Quick tip (Objective-C): Formatting an RFC2822 date of an RSS feed using NSDateFormatter
January 25th, 2009
Parsing an RFC2822 date of an RSS feed and formatting it using NSDateFormatter (e.g. “Tue, 16 Dec 2008 11:45:13 +0000” to “16. December 2008“) is not easy as it seems. Fortunately there are already some helpfull tips and articles out there, such as fiam’s solution described at “Parsing RFC2822 dates with NSDate“, Anatoliy Kolesnick’s article called “Parse Date from RSS to NSDate” or the helpful article “Advanced Strings In Cocoa” posted at CocoaCast.
All these solutions work great for me using the iPhone Simulator. But if you test your code on a real device (iPhone or iPod touch), you may run in an issue.
