Reading Time: < 1 minute The good news is if one searches “kids St. Louis” in iTunes App Store, my app To Market will show up between six flags and magic house. The bad news is, after spending hours trying to add the feature of “add to calendar”, the app crashes if one tap that button 🙁 🙂

omaha
June 20, 2014

Reading Time: 2 minutes I have thought about this topic for a long time. I remember seeing at one place that an exceptional developer can do work usually done by 10 developers. Or in other words, he/she is a rockstar developer. Besides productivity, I think rockstar developer has the following traits: 1) Willing to share the knowledge with fellow

stlplace
June 19, 2014

Reading Time: < 1 minute Dont’s Beat up people in code review or interview; Change other developers’ code without proper communication, or reasoning; worse, making the working code no longer work (sometimes to satisfying the “tests” 🙂 Do’s Learn, learn something everyday; Acknowledge our own limitations: acknowledge our mistakes if applicable, we all do make mistakes; In the same token,

stlplace
June 18, 2014

Reading Time: < 1 minute It was pretty cool. A bit small scale than I thought, but nonetheless liked the family friendly activities, food, and people. Their website is here, and their Facebook page is here. Can’t wait come back next year 🙂 The tour guide (the trolley bus) is really knowledgable about the history of Edwardsville.

omaha
June 14, 2014

Reading Time: < 1 minute Apple : the Swift language (unveiled in WWDC on June 2, 2014) Tutorials Developing iOS Apps Using Swift Tutorial Part 1 (Jameson Quave) learnswift.tips References and reviews Matt Galloway : Swift Language Highlights: An Objective-C Developer’s Perspective (raywenderlich.com) The Verge : The Swift effect: Apple’s new programming language means way more iPhone developers and apps

stlplace
June 6, 2014

Reading Time: 2 minutes Avoid the Payload validation error To shorten the review waiting time. I noticed this recently in my own apps update. The one without warning has much shorter review waiting time. The rationale is App thinks the app may use private API in this scenario (see this explanation on stackoverflow). From personal experience the one with

stlplace
June 3, 2014

Reading Time: 2 minutes Should I put iAd to my iOS apps on iTunes App store? Should I put the google adsense back to my blog? The reason I am asking this question is: while personally I really don’t like the ads on Facebook, LinkedIn, or the iAds on some apps like Echofon, I understand this is a meaningful

stlplace
May 31, 2014

Reading Time: 2 minutes Serenity became 4 years old a few months ago, and we are actually expecting our second child this July. Being the 1st generation Chinese immigrants in mid-west, we have some unique challenges such as being the minority in the community. This is not the case in the pre-school/toddler community we sent Serenity to (Hope Montessori

omaha
May 30, 2014
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