What I Like About iOS4 for the iPhone 3G

by barce on August 31, 2010

I like:

  • folders, and
  • photo zoom

Folders in iOS4

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What I Hate About Apple: iOS4 slowed down my iPhone 3G

by barce on August 30, 2010

I just want to chime in and say that my iPhone 3G is God awful slow now after updating to iOS4. I did the hard reset twice on it.

There was a moderate improvement, but I still run into spots where it’ll hang for a minute or two.

I really do hope they come out with an improvement to performance, which is rumored to come out soon.

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Dineovore Gives Techies an API

August 29, 2010

Check out Dinevore if you’re a foodie who is a techie. Their API is now live! Contact them via twitter or contact their team via email.

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Have You Used Facebook Places?

August 28, 2010

Have you used Facebook Places? Do you find it useful? I used it once and didn’t find a need for it, or didn’t get hooked the way I got hooked with Foursqaure. I have seen interesting interactions by folks who don’t use Foursquare in terms of creating fun pages for a Pho Venue in San [...]

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Working on the Road

August 27, 2010

Here’s how my Friday worked out. 5:30 am PDT Wake Up 5:45 am PDT Catch a Cab to SFO 6:25 am to 6:55 am PDT Work E-mails 7:25 am PDT Wheels up SFO 8:30 am Arrive LAX 8:30 am – 8:55 am Get Ticket for NYC & go through security again 9:00 am – 10:00 [...]

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What is a social media friend?

August 27, 2010

Aristotle defined 3 kinds of friendship in Book 8 of the Nicomachean Ethics: friendships of utility friendships of pleasure friendships based on the good Perfect friendship is the friendship of those who are good. — Aristotle What kind of a friendship is a social media friendship? At first, a social media friend was merely someone [...]

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Commands I Use Frequently

August 26, 2010

Here’s a list of commands I use frequently, where the first number represents the number of times I used that command today: 86 git – the best version control software ever 59 cd – used to change directories on the command-line 54 ls – used to list files in a directory 41 vim – when [...]

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Apollo Coffee is Great for Coding

August 25, 2010

There’s a feature that I need to get done in the next hour or so before leaving SF. It’s a business log-in for MyChamberApp so that businesses can update and edit their business listing that shows up on our mobile apps. When I was thinking about places to code, the one place that looked good [...]

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The Best Answer To What Do You Do

August 24, 2010

This video from Dave Berzack pretty much sums up what an application developer does. Killa Appz by Dave Berzack: Not to belabor the awesome nerdcore in this video but ya, a good application developer makes legacy apps faster. Also some folks do try to de-compile a closed source app, and it’s a waste of time.

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3 Creative Ways to Recruit Developers

August 23, 2010

Recruiting talented developers in this market is still extremely difficult. How should a recruiter find the talent (PHP, Ruby, MySQL, iPhone, .NET, Java) your clients need? I outline a few creative out of the box solutions below. Disclosure: I work as the lead developer at AppDevAndMarketing.com . This article in no way suggests we’ve used [...]

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