Reading Time: 2 minutes (Update 03-05-2019, almost 5 years since original post) I did something similar for iPhone X, XR, XS screen size. Basically I stretched the Default-568h@2x.png to Default-375w-812h@3x.png and added that in the “launch image”. I also noticed the some of the nib files have the wrong constraints for label, textfield and button. I made some simple

Reading Time: < 1 minute I was listening/reading two stories on the college debt (source: NPR) and the financial well beings of millennials (source: fortune/cnn), which lead to to add some new features to the collegeFund app. The app was essentially a college savings (529 plan) and I did not thought too much of this college debt problem at the

Reading Time: < 1 minute From my limited experience BA Avios points are difficult to redeem for international flights, esp. from where I live STL to PVG Shanghai. But I also heard BA miles is very efficient for the US domestic flights, the trick is also to find them. So here is how I did recently, for one way STL

Reading Time: < 1 minute I have a need to exchange some euro into US dollars. I did some research online as I recall previously I did not have very good experience on this. Saw a few articles (such as this MSN one, and this independentTraveller one). They are relevant but not totally applicable, I think they are more geared

Reading Time: < 1 minute This is the common saying I heard a lot when I started worked for a software company on development. I can list some of the pros and cons of fix it. Pros Architecture chaos: if not fixing it, basically as the software ages, per the “broken windows” theory, people would just throw in changes to

Reading Time: < 1 minute This time it tried to make an home again, luckily because it was overnight, they did not bite cable or things bad enough to cause damage. I am annoyed by them to be honest. So as my neighbor. So who is the culprit? I heard from my neighbor, the new Toyota Sienna minivan is using

Reading Time: < 1 minute Saw quite a few articles on this topic lately. Basically parents focus their attention on their phone/tablet at dinner table, at fast food restaurant, etc., when they are supposed to talk to their kids. In some cases (fast food restaurant), it will increase the likely-hood of children misbehavior. We have all done that (I’ve done

Reading Time: < 1 minute There was not an easy way to show the number only keypad on iPad. I used to create a custom number input pad like below. I loosely followed raywenderlich.com custom input tutorial. Email me at minjie Dot xu At gmail Dot com if you need the source code. And please ask nicely.

Reading Time: < 1 minute It’s the ticket stub of Philly train, when I visited more than 3 years ago (Oct. 15, 2010) for Voice That Matters iPhone developer conference.

Reading Time: 2 minutes (Update 3-29-14) They came back again last night, as I saw some hay above the battery again in Sienna van. I talked to my neighbor yesterday evening, and his Lexus SUV got squirrel after I got it last time. It seems we still need to figure out something. Maybe they are used to moth balls