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Archive | Business | Cloud Computing

An Open Cloud – Or Is It?
ByAli Shabdar 04/01/200904/15/2026

This is an article posted on CloudAve. As you might know the Open Cloud Manifesto debuted on March 30st. It outlines the pillars of Cloud Computing as well giving a brief on what the possible threats and weaknesses could challenge the early and future adopters. The manifesto declares 4 major goals of an Open Cloud:…

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Archive | Mac | Tutorials

Snow Leopard to Lion; The painless way
ByAli Shabdar 08/31/201104/15/2026

Conclusion first! Let me save you a few minutes (and perhaps hours of suffering on your Mac) and tell you the end of the story in the beginning. Upgrading has been always a tricky way of installing a new operating system. Granted it is smooth enough on a Mac but it comes with its own…

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Archive | Business

World-class Customer Service
ByAli Shabdar 11/16/201304/15/2026

In mid October 2013, Apple started recalling mid-2012 Macbook Airs, due to a SSD problem that was apparently and isolated issue to Toshiba drives only. I found out that my mid-2012 Macbook Air had a Toshiba SSD, so I booked a meeting at the Genius bar of my local Apple Store in Vancouver. The store…

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Archive | Ruby on Rails

Reloading Rails console without exiting
ByAli Shabdar 03/31/201104/15/2026

In my journey to hopefully master Ruby on Rails, I’m amazed to see that many authors (in blogs or in books) most of whom are pretty expert in the field, choose to exit the Rails console completely (using CTRL+D) when they need to restart the environment (to clear up the objects in the memory, for…

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Archive | Miscellaneous

How NOT to group your checkboxes
ByAli Shabdar 06/01/201204/15/2026

Here is to not making it clear for the user if you’re hiding an option on purpose or you’re just being lazy. Based on the title, by checking “Global Unsubscribe” I actually want to receive “Global Unsubscribe”.

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Archive | iOS | Mac

Adding easy to use sorting features to Objective-C arrays
ByAli Shabdar 06/15/201004/15/2026

Apart from how powerful and flexible NSArray in Objective-C is, there are times that you need to sort many arrays throughout the projects. The standard way of sorting arrays in Objective-C is to use one of: sortedArrayHint sortedArrayUsingFunction:context: sortedArrayUsingFunction:context:hint: sortedArrayUsingDescriptors: sortedArrayUsingSelector: (See the official documentation) But what if all you need is just a simple…

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