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: 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: < 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: 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 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 (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: 2 minutes (Update 05-10-2016) Came across this post about hosting your own Parse server from raywenderlich.com (Update 01-28-2016) All good things came to end (see today’s Facebook announcement on shutting down Parse on January 28, 2017, a year from today). They also listed migration path. A lot discussion on reddit on this topic. Also a tutorial on
Reading Time: 2 minutes Atlantic CS monitor My take: My daughter is 3 and half years old. My wife had iPhone (3g) before she was born, and I bought iPhone 4 when she was 6 months old. Then comes the iPad (1), and currently I have an iPad mini, and my wife has iPad 4. I spent about $30
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