iOS and OS X Network Programming Cookbook

This book follows a recipe based approach that will heavily focus on the code and how to integrate the samples with the reader's projects.Each recipe consists of one or more methods that you can put directly into your app and use. This book is ideal for developers that want to create network applications for the Apple OS X or iOS platforms. All examples are written in ObjectiveC using XCode as the IDE. Knowledge of ObjectiveC and XCode is essential.

Jon Hoffman has close to 20 years of experience in the field of Information Technology. Over these 20 years, Jon has worked in the areas of system administration, network administration, network security, development and architecture. Currently, he works as a software engineer at SynTech Systems. He has started a network development blog at http://networkdevelopment.blogspot.com that will enhance and expand on the material covered in this book.Over the past five years, he has developed numerous applications for the iOS platform. These include several apps that he has published in the App Store, apps that he has written for third parties, and numerous enterprise applications.What really drives Jon are the challenges in Information Technology; there is nothing more exhilarating for him than overcoming a challenge. Some of Jon's other interests are watching baseball (Go Sox!) and basketball (Go Celtics!). Jon also really enjoys Taekwondo; he and his eldest daughter Kailey are on pace to get their black belts together in the spring of 2014.