Reading Time: 2 minutes It’s Christmas eve 2010. Baby already fell asleep. Wife is tweaking her new Toshiba R705 laptop, and I was reading some Navigation controller stuff while watching TV (PBS Christmas program, KMOV news). This year is obviously one of the most significant years in my 13 years stay in this country. In early March, we got

Reading Time: < 1 minute This 9-month-old young lady. Her first endeavor in Xcode I think she is still a winner although there were 62 compile errors. You know why? Because Youyou tried (I am quoting my 5 and half years old niece).

Reading Time: < 1 minute This is to fix a show stopper problem in v 1.2, as pointed out by one of the users. The problem happened after a user used the keyboard to input data (dismiss the keyboard by tap background), the app will add a comma to “beginning savings” and “salary”. This causes confusion and mis-calculation down the

Reading Time: 2 minutes This morning I received an email from a user saying that the app stopped working. After one round of back and forth, I realized I shipped the product with a serious (show stopper) bug: I was playing around with adding a comma separator around the time I made change for v 1.2, and I left

Reading Time: 2 minutes I thought this for a while, when I was in the Voices That Matter iPhone developers conference, I have seen the great interest from iPhone app developers, from indie developers (individual or small team development shop), to high school teacher who taught self programming and teaches kids on iPhone programming. They come from different background,

Reading Time: < 1 minute Known problem in version 1.2 (11-21-2010) I received a user bug report this morning: the calculation results is not right due to the extra comma separator in “beginning savings” and “salary”. I fixed the problem this afternoon and submitted the binary (version 1.3) to App store. Stay tuned. What’s New in Version 1.2 1) Add

Reading Time: 2 minutes (Update Dec 16, 2010) Free again for limited time (until Dec 25). What is it? collegeFund is a college savings calculator iOS app (iOS 3.1.2 or later) I released a while ago (Oct. 5 to be precise). Link to iTunes App store here. For a limited time (this annual benefits enrollment and holiday season), I

Reading Time: 2 minutes for #iPhone #app #myNestEgg ~ the retirement calculator (link at iTunes store) and receive an Amazon gift card (one winner per category). I am starting this mostly for fun, three categories ($25 per category): bug report; enhancement request; user story Send email to uudaddy(No Spam) AT gmail DOT com. This runs until Dec 31, 2010.

Reading Time: < 1 minute I know, I know, I am a little late making the announcement. But I was fighting a small battle. Anyway, the latest and greatest is here. It has all the goodies of version 1.0 plus the following new things: ======== Fix the problem in “email results” when income_ratio is larger than 100%, the email results

Reading Time: < 1 minute I got this problem 2 days ago, exactly same as it being described at Stackoverflow. My environment: Xcode 3.1.4, iPhone OS 3.1.2, Mac OS 10.5.8 (yeah, I am a little old school). Struggled a bit, tried creating new certificates, using old certificates, blah blah blah. Nothing, still see the same message after I added the