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Eid ul Adha
There are three life experiences I’ve had, that I strongly feel every adult should experience. They are things that have opened my eyes to reality in a way that only experience can do; knowing something by being taught it or hearing about it is never the same as experiencing it for yourself.
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my best shot
The day I got my DSLR, many years ago, I took a bunch of test shots having no clue what I was doing. One of those shots I have always considered my best photo, ever, even though it was totally random and lucky. As of yesterday, that shot has been replaced as my favorite shot…
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Google / Alphabet easter egg
My coworker just found a neat easter egg on the new Google Company, Alphabet go to abc.xyz and search for the word “drone” Sergey and I are seriously in the business of starting new things. Alphabet will also include our X lab, which incubates new efforts like Wing, our drone delivery effort. at the end…
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Google Analytics & Swift
I’m working on an iOS app written entirely in Swift that uses the Google Analytics library. At Google I/O 2015 they announced full support for Swift and even CocoaPods (which doesn’t actually work if any of your other libraries use_frameworks! – but they are working on that and it’s not a trivial fix). The initial intro…
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iOS rapid #photog workflow
I don’t always lug my DSLR around with me, but I almost always have my old iPhone 4S on hand. I’ve often commented at how amazed I am by the image quality from such an antiquated mobile device. Recently a friend was asking how I got my images to come out so great from the iPhone,…
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Behind Flash Platform
Peter Elst has hit the nail on the head with this article.
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Ramadan Witr Duah from the Haram
Glory to the One who is Lord of all lords; Glory to the One who facilitates all means; Glory to the One whose throne is in the heavens, and in the earth is His authority ; glory to the One whom no creature of this life can see, and Whom no sense can perceive; and Whom description seekers cannot perceive;…
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WWDC 2015 Session Notes: WebKit
Some quick notes on the WWDC 2015 session, What’s New in Web Development in Webkit and Safari
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prototyping resources
Quick list of some interactive prototyping resources useful for iOS and other platforms: Invision (really easy & fast to use, let’s you deploy to both phones and web site) Flinto Pixate Design+Code (if you’re a Designer you can still prototype right from Xcode using Storyboards…let Meng To show you how)
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5 years of iOS
A really nice insight following how Ash Furrow got into iOS development and contracting. I would urge any new aspiring iOS developers to read this. It’s a lot easier than you might think to get started. I think some important take-away lessons are: scratch your own itch – think of a simple app idea that solves a…