Reading Time: 2 minutes In my 13+ years of software development career, I have done both. So which one do I prefer? This is a bit like asking my daughter: who do you like more, mommy or daddy? (I will reveal my daughter’s answer at the end.) I think both are interesting work, and both could be challenging. If

Reading Time: 2 minutes Two social media companies are in news today, Facebook released the new Paper app on iPhone, and Twitter announced the user growth is not as fast as the Wall Street liked. Maybe the 3rd, LinkedIn announced not so spectacular quarter after market today. I tried Facebook Paper app. To be honest I have been Facebook

Reading Time: < 1 minute She got some fever, and cough. Not too bad, but a nice two days break from her school. Reflecting on this “kids got sick/fever” topic, I recall a few instances when she was much younger, and we were really worried sometimes. I recall in one winter evening, she couldn’t stop coughing, I walked to nearby

Reading Time: < 1 minute I learned the lesson the hard way. Almost a year ago, I left my former employer, and I had to turn in my iPhone 4s. Being a computer professional, I knew the backup thing, so I backed up the photos to iTunes, both via iCloud and via iTunes to PC. But I forgot one more

Reading Time: < 1 minute And I regret it now, because she appears have a lot energy after getting home. But at pre-school when I picked her up, she was complaining about “lip hurts” (probably due to cold weather, and low moisture indoors), and “fear of doing high beam”. No matter what I offer (snack, chocolate), she was not motivated,

Reading Time: 2 minutes Job I changed too much. Three W-2 in one year. I hope to stick with my current employer for a while. Family Our daughter grew up quickly. She brings us joy that words can not be easily described. And frustration sometimes, too. I think patience is very important being parent. Near the year end, we

Reading Time: < 1 minute (Update 02-06-2014) My UP band died. I fully charged it, tried both soft reset and hard reset, as discussed below, but seems could not revive it. The following was written on Nov. 14, 2013. I have a bit more experience with UP band since then, note Jawbone also came up with new UP 24, which

Reading Time: < 1 minute I sold it much quickly than I thought (sold right after I posted on Amazon on Nov. 18, 2013), and I did back up photos using 3 approaches. 1) Dropbox; 2) Back up to PC using the backup utility on the Phone; 3) Google+ After using google+ backup on my Nexus 4 for a while,

Reading Time: < 1 minute It appears the UITableView cells created via storyboard is not updating correctly, say, if we want to add or delete a row. It only update once. The workaround in this case is creating the rows programmatically (instead of static tags from storyboard). Similarly, I recall the JSF Richfaces paging problem when add/delete a row which

Reading Time: < 1 minute I came across this example in Jan 2012 (almost 2 years ago :-). A lot has changed in iOS landscape, but the author did a good job designing the application, I think. Displaying Tabular Data on iPhones (Tom Thompson, overview of UITableView) Making Two-Way Tables in iOS (a two dimensional table, with text field as