andreas alfarè

httpriot

andi — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 20:45:37 +0000

Today I tested httpriot a simple REST library designed to make interacting with REST services on iOS much easier.

It’s pretty simple and works with JSON and XML.

Some Examples:

Send a GET request:

[HRRestModel getPath:@"/person.json" withOptions:nil object:nil];

Send a POST request with JSON body data:

NSDictionary *opts = [NSDictionary dictionaroyWithObject:[person JSONRepresentation] forKey:@"body"];

[HRRestModel postPath:@"/person" withOptions:opts object:nil];

Send a PUT request:

NSDictionary *opts = [NSDictionary dictionaroyWithObject:[updatedPerson JSONRepresentation] forKey:@"body"];

[HRRestModel putPath:@"/person" withOptions:opts object:nil];

Send a DELETE request:

[HRRestModel deletePath:@"/person/1" withOptions:nil object:nil]

Software Development Intern at Kupferwerk

andi — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 06:53:45 +0000

I’m currently working as a iPhone- and iPad developer at Kupferwerk in Regensburg, Germany.

lono’me – a music quiz

andi — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 06:38:42 +0000

lono’me is a music quiz where have to listen to short music tracks and guess the artist and title of the song.

The project was developed during our 4th semester at Salzburg University of Applied Sciences. The idea of this project was inspired by a tv quiz show called “Name that Tune” in 1953. 2 players had to play against each other and had to guess the artist and title based of several tunes of the song.

Tech specs: Ruby On Rails, AS3
Project members: Andreas Alfarè, Hubert Hölzl, Vera Mayrhofer

Twitter public timeline flex-app

andi — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 20:24:37 +0000

Yesterday I finished my flex-app for this semesters interactive-multimedia-programming course. We had to both design and code a flex application that reads the latest twitter posts. The aim was to make a nice looking application, with meaningful motion-effects and pretty skins. Here’s what I created: http://projects.alfare.it/twitter

Flex Twitter App

andi — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 23:13:55 +0000

I’m working on my twitter app for our Interactive-Multimedia-Programming-course but unfortunately twitter is down:

2 minutes later:

but the good thing: I like the illustrations

Classics

andi — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:06:23 +0000

Excellent user interface and user experience!

iPhone tethering

andi — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 15:40:59 +0000

The new iPhone OS 3.1.3 enables tethering for factory unlocked devices. It’s awesome to be able to go online with your iPhone via bluetooth when you’re traveling or if you are at a place without Internet connection.

LocaNote – The location-based notes service

andi — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 23:14:37 +0000

LocaNote is our final project in the 3rd semester at university of applied sciences in Salzburg.

With LocaNote you are able to store notes which have a geographical position attached to them. So whenever you check your notes, you will only be presented with the notes near you. Since it is a cloud service, you can access your notes from our web-application or – even better – you can check and edit your notes with your iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS.

LocaNote has been developed in RubyOnRails and uses the authlogic gem for registration and authentification.

The iPhone Application uses Apple’s iPhone SDK and has been developed in XCode and Inteface Builder. For a easier communication to our API we used ObjectiveResource (www.iphoneonrails.com).

ObjectiveResource is an Objective-C port of Ruby on Rails’ ActiveResource. It provides a way to serialize objects to and from Rails’ standard RESTful web-services (via XML or JSON) and handles much of the complexity involved with invoking web-services of any language from the iPhone. With ObjectiveResource you’ll be able to implement your own Classes and it adds some methods for saving/destroying objects in your database.

As shown on the getting-started page of ObjectiveResource, you can simply call the method “saveRemote” to sync your data with your server. With calling the methode “findAllRemote” you’ll get all objects of the specified route.

The iPhone app will be available in the AppStore in February.

new books arrived

andi — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 10:01:57 +0000

it’s done

andi — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 09:16:44 +0000

I finally presented my first version of my game iParcheesi. There are still some features missing but I’ll implement it so that I can share it on the AppStore.

Here is a link to our university portfolio (german): MediaCube Portfolio