A recent opportunity made me dust off my development skills and I decided to use Ruby on Rails as the framework of choice. I’m happy with Ruby 1.8.7 for now (comes with Mac OS X Snow Leopard), but I had to update Rails to version 3, which was a painless process. After installing MySQL 5.5.10…
Back in 2007 when Facebook was becoming a global phenomena, my first impression as a user was a normal pessimism at first that left me with just an account to reserve my name and no actual use of the service. As an expatriate who lived at least 25% of my life out of my hometown…
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…
With the emergence of the iPad, there are many trends changing and many ideas developing around an old but finally well-developed phenomenon: the tablet computer. Although I am somehow late giving my opinion on the subject, I think it is worth the try. One of the areas cloud computing can be very useful and extremely…
Learning a new language along with news development tools is quite exciting and challenging at the same time. You have to go through most (if not all) basic stuff and make sure you’re not bringing any old habits to the new language. For instance, after years of manual memory management in C and other languages,…
This article is originally posted on Shufflegazine. If you are a music fan (who isn’t?) you might have dreamed about mixing some tunes and added new grooves to your favorite tracks. Macs are famous for their music production tools and you don’t need to be a professional DJ to create cool stuff. There are a…