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I've been developing apps for the iPhone since the early betas of iOS 2.0, and one of the things I'd like back then was to use SOAP services. Back then, Apple had an old, half-implemented command-line program called wsmakestubs that you could use to generate some stubs that half worked. That program has not been updated, nor has any more SOAP support been added to iOS itself.
What has changed, though, is the eco-system. First off all, we can talk about it and share experiences. Secondly, people have made and shared interesting stuff. One of my favourites is SudzC. It's very interesting, but has been stuck in alpha for a while. Commercial offerings such as WSClient++ are also interesting, but what I've found is that, for the most part, I don't need ...
The kind of errors I hate the most are the ones you cannot even find in the documentation. When you get no compiler warnings, and even an incentive from your preferred auto-completion tool to go straight into them.
Todays such error is the following:
byte[] buffer = /* something that fills the buffer with the contents of a string*/;<br /> String stringBuffer = new String(buffer, Charset.forName("UTF8"));
What's wrong here?? Compiles fine, looks fine.... let's read the doc... fine. Except, as it turns out, for long buffers, it will truncate the string and add a trailing .... So you need to do something like this instead
String stringBuffer = new String(buffer, ...
@adurdin has made a skin for the iPhone simulator that may wear less on your eyes when you're sitting there developing all day: 
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Visit his blog for instructions on how to install it.
I mentioned libpd for iOS a while ago, and now I found that it's ready to be played with. But as soon as I wanted to play with spectral analysis, I started missing tools, so trying to get cartopol~ and poltocart~ to work, I ended up putting in support for all the Cyclone objects. When the work was done (it compiled and ran fine) I put it on GitHub: https://github.com/niklassaers/PdTest02WithCyclone. Many thanks to Richard Lawler for giving ...
