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i’ve been hearing a lot of Octopress so i decided to give it a shot, i like the idea behind this blogging framework, baked HTML pages instead of a PHP/MySQL, writing post in markdown format and many more so don’t be surprised if the next time you visit this site has an Octopress look and feel.

What it’s Octopress

Octopress is a framework designed by Brandon Mathis for Jekyll, the blog aware static site generator powering Github Pages. To start blogging with Jekyll, you have to write your own HTML templates, CSS, Javascripts and set up your configuration. But with Octopress All of that is already taken care of. Simply clone or fork Octopress, install dependencies and the theme, and you’re set.

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Hi! this is the first post of  2012, more posts will be coming during the rest of the year, at least more than the last year, that was really a shame by the way.
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Some time ago i wrote a post talking about using ASIHTTPRequest but it looks like has been abandoned =(
so, what options do we have???

AFNetworking

From the people who make Gowalla. A general purpose HTTP lib, built on modern patterns, actively developed. AFNetworking has been gaining a lot of traction over the last few months, so it’s a good bet that it’s going to be around for a while.
https://github.com/gowalla/AFNetworking

LRResty

A lightweight HTTP lib, actively developed. Also comes in an ARC-flavoured variety.
http://projects.lukeredpath.co.uk/resty/

RestKit

For applications that talk to REST-based services, lets you map remote objects and store them in CoreData. It sounds like this could replace a lot of code in the right circumstances.
http://restkit.org/

AWS SDK for iOS

Amazon S3 support has been one of the most popular ASIHTTPRequest features. These days Amazon offers their own SDK for iOS, providing access to S3, CloudFront, SimpleDB and other Amazon cloud services.
http://aws.amazon.com/sdkforios/

ShareKit

The highest-level API listed here. Provides a simple way to upload content to a variety of services, and a UI to make it super easy to drop into your projects.
http://getsharekit.com/

NSURLRequest/NSURLConnection

From the people who make your cellphone. Built by smart people, lightweight, actively developed.
http://developer.apple.com/…/Tasks/UsingNSURLConnection.html

I just finished reading the Cocos2d for iPhone 0.99 Beginner’s Guide book by Pablo Ruiz,
and want to share my thoughts on it with you.

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If you’re working with git you have definitely heard about git-flow ….. whaaat??….. you haven’t heard of it??…. really???? are you from the moon???? what the heck are you doing??? go and read this!!

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while reading a tutorial found this great framework, ASIHTTPRequest, it’s so damn cool and really easy to use, so i decide to explain how you can use it in your own iOS project.

What is ASIHTTPRequest?

ASIHTTPRequest is an easy to use wrapper around the CFNetwork API that makes some of the more tedious aspects of communicating with web servers easier. It is written in Objective-C and works in both Mac OS X and iPhone applications.

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Hi every one!! It’s been a while since our last post huh?
Well this time i’m gonna show you how you can use EasyDrag and EasySlider jQuery Plugins to create a daggable strip menu, watch the final result here:
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Happy holidays, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all of Labs readers and friends!

this is a collection of Xcode shortcuts that i use most frecuently, hope you like it:

• Option ⌥ Command ⌘ Up Arrow ↑
  View > Switch to Header/Source File
• ⌘ Command + Double-Click on a symbol
  Jump to Definition of a symbol.
• ⌥ Option + Double-Click on a symbol
  Find Text in Documentation of a symbol. (Only works if you have they symbol’s Doc Set installed.)
• Tab ⇥ OR Control ⌃ /
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i’ve been using SOSmax for a while in my flash projects and i can tell you, it rocks!!, it’s a very handy debugger tool for developers, i found that someone already has created a class for Objective-C called SOSLog and comes with the following features: Read the rest of this entry »