Synchronize the execution of two different tasks (or blocks)

This content has 11 years. Please, read this page keeping its age in your mind.Sometimes we face the following problem: We have two tasks (or blocks) and we get errors because of the wrong synchonization. The reason is that the second block needs the first task to be completed. Imagine that the second task carries

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Get readable xml data with greek characters (UTF8, HTML numeric character reference)

This content has 11 years. Please, read this page keeping its age in your mind.What is your situation? Ok, let me tell you mine and probably you will find similarities. I get input data (strings) from a web service of a Public Greek Organization. The web service gets an xml document. There are 2 possible

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Getting xml data from a web service (Part 2 – RaprureXML 101)

This content has 11 years. Please, read this page keeping its age in your mind.In the first part, Getting xml data from a web service (Part 1 – AFNetworking 101), we managed to get the raw xml data from a web service using the AFNetworking library. RaptureXML is a simple, block-based XML library for the iOS platform

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