Google investing in a new biotechnology company named Calico, some analysts speculate it is aiming to harness its big data processing capabilities to support discoveries. Is big data the next big thing which techies need to follow?
Tips for Architecting Dual-platform OS X / iOS Applications
How to share common code between OS X and iOS and architect your app to dance around each platform’s similarities and differences.
Replicating git to perforce
If your project moved to git but still needs to interface with some Perforce-based legacy systems, this could save your day.
Encoding UIButton Title for State Preservation and Restoration
Supporting state restoration in iOS often requires you to make your app just like a hollywood house where the front porch looks nice but there’s really nothing beyond that. Read more to find out why.
Primefaces Review : Strength and Shortcomings
In this post, I would like to discus my first impression about Primefaces, a framework based on Jquery, Ajax and component based JSF 2.0.
Microsoft’s Reorganization and What Does It Means for You
Microsoft’s reorganization opens up unforeseen opportunities. What are they? Read on.
Faster Android Development on the Mac
Debugging on Android can be a pain at times – some of these can be attributed to the architecture of its developer tools. If you find the emulator’s startup time to be too slow for you, there may be a configuration option that you’ve overlooked and can make the emulator a lot fster.
How to Get Google’s Productivity in Your Office
I have been assigned for 7 weeks by my office to work at the client side. I found the atmosphere there, much better than my office. In terms of employee happiness and productivity. Perhaps I can sum up the experience as a Google like experience.
Customer Interview Tips
Try to get to know your potential customers and users before you start building your solution. One way for this is doing questionnaires, sometimes called as customer interviews. I’ve done this recently and called up real people for a survey and here’s what you can learn from the experience we learned the hard way.
Two Macros to Speed Your Singletons
How to use singletons properly and how to supercharge your singleton writing.
Bringing Web Analytics for your Desktop App
Are you yearning for Flurry Analytics or Google Mobile Analytics for your Mac OS X application? Seek no more as your day is saved!
Lean Startup is Crap!
Why trusting the lean startup methodology can cause false negatives for your otherwise bright ideas. See the pitfalls of running lean and how you can walk past through them.
Handling Cookies Created in JavaScript for your Custom Cookie Jar
Yammer just broke my app because they started using JavaScript to set their session cookies. I spent a couple of days finding why the app broke and coding up the solution to this. Here’s how you take care of those pesky script-based cookies.
Crazy App Idea: JDBC on Cocoa
Do you know why it’s so hard to gain access to an SQL database from a Mac App? Here’s why and the solution to your database access woes. Warning: it’s slightly off-beat and rad.