Reading Time: < 1 minute We had a new baby girl about 2 months ago. One problem we anticipated did not show up as I feared: the feeling of being neglected for my older daughter, as new baby usually gets more attention. That’s good. When I think about it, I heard so many warnings from my friends and tried to

Reading Time: < 1 minute Here is my theory. Years ago I heard people in China mentioned “Apple Phone” (苹果手机), for iPhone. This is particularly true for older generation as their grasp of English is not as good as younger generation. So this time they decided just go with Apple Watch 苹果手表. Note this is also their fourth main product

Reading Time: 2 minutes (Note 12-03-2015): for a more deep understanding of REST API and iOS usage of it, see this blog post by Mugunth Kumar. Very well written piece on REST. My tutorial below is meant to get hands dirty quickly on iOS web service calls 🙂 (Original 09-03-2014) Some example code here. For GET methods and AFNetworking

Reading Time: 2 minutes We got this Graco travel system from Wal-Mart long before our second baby was born. Btw, there is a promotion ($25 rebate) going on for this product. I recall we bought the same car seat for our elder daughter when she was new born, we still have the base which we are using again, but

Reading Time: < 1 minute I just throw some technical questions out here. Note Ray Wenderlich has a series on this. BlackPixel has an article too. life cycle of UIViewController; NSString property copy or retain? frame vs bounds category vs subclass What is protocol (Apple doc; Ry’s Objective-C tutorial)? Create a protocol for List, and how to implement the “add”

Reading Time: 2 minutes Target is offering $20 gift cards for 2 giant packs of Pamper or Huggies diapers. With the expiring $10 off $40 store pick up offer from target.com, that makes 2 giant packs from about $70 to $40. With Target red cards, there is 5% discount as well. Personally I picked up Huggies little snuggler size

Reading Time: < 1 minute Twice The first time, call originated from this number 1 844 540 4033, the guy not even verified my name, and told my Southwest Air Credit Card is stolen, then started reading about those “fraudulent” charges. At the end, I asked the last 4 digits of my card number, that does not match; and I

Reading Time: 2 minutes We all know updating sqlite database on an existing iOS app could be tricky, esp. with any schema (table) changes. In the good old days when I was developing in-house app, I found out the app would crash when I added a column to the sqlite database, after merely updating the app. The problem was,

Reading Time: 2 minutes Dos and Don’ts in the social media age Recently the Facebook “lab rats” testing for its “news feed” is the news (see this one at Guardian). I gave it some more thought and since I’ve thought about this privacy thing before, I’d like to share some of my thoughts. We all knew (hopefully heard about)

Reading Time: 2 minutes We go to Berine Park a lot, we meant mostly Serentity and myself, sometimes my wife will also go. The main reason is it’s so close to our home, across the street from Olive blvd, and 2 to 3 minutes driving. It’s across the street from the Spoede Elementary School, if everything works out as