Reading Time: 2 minutes (Update 05-10-2016) Came across this post about hosting your own Parse server from raywenderlich.com (Update 01-28-2016) All good things came to end (see today’s Facebook announcement on shutting down Parse on January 28, 2017, a year from today). They also listed migration path. A lot discussion on reddit on this topic. Also a tutorial on
Reading Time: 2 minutes Atlantic CS monitor My take: My daughter is 3 and half years old. My wife had iPhone (3g) before she was born, and I bought iPhone 4 when she was 6 months old. Then comes the iPad (1), and currently I have an iPad mini, and my wife has iPad 4. I spent about $30
Reading Time: 2 minutes Recently I’ve worked on updating one of my app to make it works on iOS 7, and have encountered some roadblocks. Push view controller problem/symptom: the new view controller pushed from old view controller shows no content, on iOS 7. It works fine on iOS 6.1 (the deployment target is still iOS 6.1). solution/diagnose: I
Reading Time: < 1 minute Arguably iOS 7 bring most drastic changes to iOS in last 3 to 5 years. With new features like dynamics in UIKit, (more/new) auto layout, it creates both opportunities and challenges for developers. But I know the Mac/iOS developer community is best, in terms of sharing knowledge. With the iOS 7 out just 2 weeks
Reading Time: < 1 minute Good idea? Bad idea? I read this article on LATimes talking about how the kids hacked the MDM software on school issued iPads. The topic was on security. Obviously the MDM provider did not do a through job, as explained by an article on alertboot here. This reminds me of another question, the iPad in
Reading Time: < 1 minute (Update 09-27-13) I think it’s a bit silly people are all over the motion-sickness caused by iOS 7. I found the new Safari “color effect under address bar when the web page moves up” cool, it took me a while to figure out why the color on the top is changing sometimes (very subtle π
Reading Time: 2 minutes (Update 2, 11-18-2013) I sold my Nexus 4 as I am getting my iPhone 5s. I still think Nexus 4 is a lot phone for the money ($199 before tax). Another feature I liked is the integration with google contacts, and google+ photo backup. I just found there’s an option on iPhone Google+ app for
Reading Time: < 1 minute Krugman, the Nobel economics laureate recently penned an article basically saying Apple is no good. I think he has one valid point on iTunes and the relatively closeness of Apple ecosystem. This reminds me of one thing, the cloud storage for consumers. Apple has this iCloud going for a few years, it can be used
Reading Time: < 1 minute Disclaimer: not including any commercial providers here, as they are usually more expensive. With today’s online learning resources (raywenderlich.com tutorial, stackoverflow to say a few), it’s fairly straightforward for an experienced developer to pick up Objective C and UIKit, etc. I think the value of classes is mostly from interaction with instructors, and do some
Reading Time: < 1 minute http://mattgemmell.com/2013/06/12/ios-7/ http://blog.mengto.com/ios-7-transition-flat/ http://designmodo.com/flat-design-principles/ http://www.marco.org/2013/06/27/ios7-as-defense http://whoo.ps/2013/05/12/flat-design-is-great-for-mediocre-designers-like-me
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