Reading Time: < 1 minute This afternoon (Friday afternoon), as a recent custom, both my wife and I went to school to pick up our daughter. My wife was pretty happy, until she saw Serenity started to cry as soon as she saw mom. The reason, she felt we went there too early, and she just started some drawing project.

Reading Time: 2 minutes We went to the Chick-fil-a Chesterfield valley today for lunch, actually we spent quite some time today. The reason being we have a birthday party at 3 pm at Chesterfield mall, and it takes 40 to 50 minutes going back and forth from the Chesterfield to our home in Creve Coeur. Talking about the birthday

Reading Time: < 1 minute Yesterday evening, after my wife and I picked up our daughter, and decided to go to a local Chinese restaurant for food, Serenity wanted the lemonade from Chick-fil-a. I cradled quickly, and suggested we stopped by Chick-fil-a before going to the Chinese restaurant. My wife was extremely upset, and wanted nothing of it. We calmed

Reading Time: 2 minutes For the pretty reports? About a year ago, I worked for a client for an iOS project. The developer I worked with is very enthusiastic about unit testing, test driven development. I recall he used some tool (lcov, stands for line coverage), and set up the build script such that the unit test and lcov

Reading Time: < 1 minute Yoyo, mom, daddy, and incoming baby sister (my wife is expecting)

Reading Time: 2 minutes Recently I cancelled iPad mini $30 per month 3gb data plan from AT&T, note I also have not have phone data plan since the beginning of April of last year, at which time I returned the employer iPhone 4s when I changed job. Now I am without the data plan on 3G, I am formally

Reading Time: 2 minutes I’m back to Java world again, after about 2 years stint on Objective-C and iOS development. I’m not new to Java land, as I have done Java work between 2010 and 2011, for 2 years. My personal learning experience: JSF => Spring MVC (jspx is still very similar): I have done JSF, which is a

Reading Time: < 1 minute The golden era is over. Some readers/developers will argue it was over a while ago. I know I know. But this problem was confirmed as I read this article on BusinessInsider: it takes 107 swipes to get to the hottest app in app store. Don’t get me wrong, Apple is still evolving and innovating on

Reading Time: < 1 minute It has been almost 6 years since iOS SDK first came out (early 2008, source: wikipedia), and the industry is entering a consolidation stage. From my own experience, last year, iOS developers are widely sought after for enterprise app development, and among digital/marketing agencies. But it has a few caveats: 1) Many new developers, some

Reading Time: < 1 minute This morning, Serenity asked me to show her draw a pig. I said I don’t know how. She said google it, as mommy always did. So I googled how to draw a pig, and it comes up some results. I showed her the wikihow step by step animations. Now she is into wolf 🙂 (Update