NPR's Report on Patent Issues in the US

Listening to this makes me want to cry: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/play_full.php?play=441&podcast=1 [http://www.thisamericanlife.org/play_full.php?play=441&podcast=1 ]

Everybody is getting sued, now what?

Tonight we have a great Meetup over at MoDevDC. The topic is about Patent Infringement lawsuits and how developers can deal with them. Here is an overview of the night's presentation and discussion topics: 1) What is the overall situation? We interviewed Florian Mueller, an Intellectual Property Law

FISMA / HIPAA Compliance on iOS

Last night I presented at the MoDevDC Meetup on the topic of security on the iOS platform. It was a fun discussion among 50+ local mobile developers. Synopsis: In this presentation, I am going to discuss the technical challenges of how we secure our app (iForm ES) in order to

Growing up

When my grandma passed away, I was very sad. We were closed and losing her was painful to me. I was just out of college and i asked, "how come nobody ask me how I feel?" That was almost 15 years ago. As God slowly takes people around

The world with tablets

I was having lunch with a friend and we chat about the future where most people will use the tablet more than a PC. ( I know, that's Steve Jobs' vision, but it's also Bill Gates' and also mine. ;) ) Anyway, he start asking questions like,

Quick Samsung Galaxy Tab review

Ok. Meant to write this for a while. I have had my Galaxy Tab since launch around November. First impression is that the hardware is impressive. Speed, touch, multi-touch, all on par with the iPad. The thing that I like the most of my Galaxy tab is it's

Top 3 Needs

Recently a friend of mine asked "what's your top 3 needs right now". Here is my respond, Top three things? These 3 things are always true, but as we get into a different stage, they take on a different meaning. 1. Focus. Focus is no longer,

My First Garage Band recording

This is just the intro to the song I'm trying to learn, but the process is cool so I'm writing it down. I play the song from my iPhone, and try to play it on the piano. Once I got the notes correct, I hook up

Keep your iPhone apps from crashing

Yes, once again I found myself having to track down some memory issues. Today I tracked down 3 major areas that cause apps to crash. Yes, even if you do all the great Objective-C alloc/release/dealloc you still will be faced with these. I think most apps have at

iPhoneDevCamp DC Demo

For those of you who will attend my presentation in the iPhoneDevCamp tomorrow, please do the following in advance to follow along in the demo: Download exZact Lite from the App Store. Goto the Setting screen, key in the following: > Email Address: ipdcdc (Yes, it's not really

iPhoneDevCampDC Presentation Overview

I'm going to the iPhoneDevCampDC tonight and tomorrow. I will try to present the following. Hope I can get the vote. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4m33PdMljw

Handling NULL type in the XMLRPC2 package

While working on a client project, I came across an interesting issue in the PEAR::XMLRPC2 package. By default, it uses the xmlrpc C extension in the system. Now that is great but the implementation of that library is so slightly different between different platforms. I found that on Ubuntu,

Wordpress Expert!

Yesterday, my co-worker called and said where can he find a wordpress expert and said someone should be able to get it done in an hour. So, I asked, what do you need? * I have 3 themes that I like, I want to mix them up. * I want to do

UIButton setTitle issue in iPhone OS 3.0

I was working on a client project and come across a bizarre issue. I eventually solved it. Here is the issue, see if you can spot where the problem is. The following few lines of code generates a button with label "Next" in SDK 2.2.1 but

Consumerization of the enterprise market

Salesforce.com makes SAAS and cloud computing famous, when they first started, people say the enterprise will NEVER buy into that model. Now Salesforce (and similar SAAS vendors) are entering the enterprise market. The iPhone is slowly doing the same. In terms of mobile workforce technology, traditionally it has been

Setting up headless Ubuntu with XFCE and VNC (Slicehost)

I recently have to setup a headless Ubuntu box (on slicehost) with GUI support. After search the web I couldn't find a clean solution. So here it is, hopefully people don't have to spend as much time as I did. This solution is based on Ubuntu

Vote Report Wins the Golden Dot Award

Yesterday I went to the Politics Online Conference in Washington D.C. for the Golen Dot Award. Since so many of my friends ask "What is that?", I'm going to talk a bit about the project and the award itself. I will then post a follow-up

iPhone Memory Management - Part II

More examples as I work through the project I'm reviewing: Case: Auto-release on instance variables When assigning to an instance variable, you should not set the object to autorelease. By having an instance variable means you want to 'hold on' to the object. And, make sure

iPhone Memory Management - Part 1

In review of a project today, I realize I need to write down some general rules on memory management around Objective-C. I'm going to write more on this but here are some general rules: Case 1. Setting properties. Obj *obj = [[obj alloc] init]; myClient.obj = obj; [obj release]

iPhone SDK Training

Since I started training my staffs on iPhone development, I thought may be it's time to restart my teaching profession (I built a Java training school back in 2002). So we will start offering a 3-day crash course on everything iPhone soon. Here is the description: ========================================================= PD401 Jumpstart

iPhone development: Web or SDK

Came across an article from Ian Thain [http://ianthain.ulitzer.com/]. > Web or SDK? [http://iphone.ulitzer.com/node/890613]— Web Development and SDK Development each offer distinct advantages to the iPhone Developer...So I set out over the last two months, with the aid of the LinkedIn Polls

Inauguration Report hits the App Store

Dave called me back to help out on the Inauguration Report project a week ago. I am so proud of the fact that I got to participate in the Twitter Vote Report project and now the Inauguration Report project. This time you can report text, audio and photo. And also

Rochambeau hits the App Store!

Our first game Rochambeau hits the App Store a week ago.

More Twitter Vote Report Video

http://www.youtube.com/v/ds1LIUBsGGw [http://www.youtube.com/v/ds1LIUBsGGw&hl=en&fs=1]

Twitter Vote Report Video

Twitter Vote Report [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUMXuTM_KLs]