Networking on akos.ma

A Proposed Architecture for Network-Bound iOS Apps

Tue, 20 Sep 2011 00:00:00 +0200

One of my most popular answers in StackOverflow is the one I gave to the following question: “What is the best architecture for an iOS application that makes many network requests?”

Playing With HTTP Libraries

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0100

It’s fun to find out how to tackle the same task in different programming languages; in this case, it’s all about doing HTTP requests over a network: fortunately, there are networking libraries in virtually all major programming languages. In my current project, I’m generating wrappers easing the access to the core of the project itself, a RESTful API. This way, developers interested in using the API can just take a wrapper, include it in their projects, and start coding right away. No need to know this (relatively low-level) stuff; just use the API. The wrappers themselves are auto-generated from the API definition itself, but that’s another story ;)

Browsers' Multiple Connection Settings

Thu, 16 Aug 2007 00:00:00 +0200

I’m not such a “power user” when it comes to web browsing, and having good connectivity both at home and at work helps forgetting about tweaking the maximum number of TCP connections in my web browser. However, I can think of a two cases where the establishment of multiple connections might bring great value to the power user: first, multiple file downloads. Being able to download several files at once might be really helpful in some situations. Secondly, in the case of complex web pages. When web pages contain different elements, the required download time goes up (which is often the case: images, sound, video, Java applets, Flash animations, JavaScript files, stylesheets, etc., are ubiquitous nowadays).

Peer to Peer: An Overview

Thu, 29 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +0200

“P2P” or “peer-to-peer networking” is maybe one of the most controversial and interesting trends in the dawn of the new century; its complete decentralization challenges all definitions of private intellectual property and creates new technological, commercial and juridic challenges.

How to Install the Linksys WPC54GS Wireless-G Network Adapter in Ubuntu 6.06 Dapper

Fri, 02 Jun 2006 00:00:00 +0200

“Dapper”, the new version of Ubuntu has been released yesterday! So I downloaded the ISO file, burn the CD down and proceeded to install it over my old Breezy Kubuntu installation.

How to Install the Linksys WPC54GS Wireless G Network Adapter in Ubuntu 5.10 Breezy

Fri, 19 May 2006 00:00:00 +0200

Well, that was a long title. My mother recently changed her 4-year old Dell Inspiron 4100 for a brand new iMac G5, so I took that old laptop (20 GB hard disk, 256 MB RAM) and, after backing up her data, wiped it completely and reinstalled it with the following configuration.

Kubuntu 5.10 and the Linksys WPC54GS Wireless-G Network Adapter

Mon, 01 May 2006 00:00:00 +0200

OK, so this time I’ve tried to make the same I’ve described before, but for Kubuntu 5.10. I have changed to Kubuntu since I like KDE more than gnome, and also, Kubuntu seems to run faster than Ubuntu. And so I said to myself, OK, these are the same guys who make Ubuntu and Kubuntu, the wireless stuff should work fairly easily. After all it’s the same kernel…

About Operating Systems and Networks

Mon, 17 Apr 2006 00:00:00 +0200

“The true operating system is the net itself”. This phrase, common marketing argument in the late nineties, made me remind that in the eighties, Sun Microsystems’ founder, Scott McNealy, used the slogan “The Network is the Computer” to describe his vision.