Engineering Management
I’ve been catching up on some reading now that my university is done. I’ve been learning about investments and the stock market – something I knew very little about a few days ago. I just finished reading these two books. They were very easy to understand and quite inspiring. I recommend them to anyone who […]
Update (May 24, 2012): Choose For Change is live now. I was unable to help with the design process near the end because I was on vacation. However, I was bored today so I decided to do another mockup for fun. Not sure if we’ll have time to implement this, but here it is:
Today, we presented our final year design project, Peekaboo, to the University of Waterloo. I thought it was only fair that I post it online on the same day as well.
Peekaboo is an iOS app that lets you find out more about people around you. It accomplishes this by using facial detection and recognition. Simply snap a picture and Peekaboo tries to find out who the people in it are.
From a recent interview with Jonathan Ive of Apple: Something I found very interesting was Ive’s response to the question,”When you are coming up with product ideas such as the iPod, do you try to solve a problem?” His reply: There are different approaches – sometimes things can irritate you so you become aware of […]
From CocoaHeads: To sum it up, you can create an NSDictionary through the following: dict = @{ k1 : o1, k2 : o2, k3 : o3 }; Similarly for an NSArray: array = @[ a, b, c ]; and for NSNumber: NSNumber *number; number = @’X’; number = @12345; number = @12345ul; number = @12345ll; […]
Here’s something that helped me when I was working with WEPopover to implement a popover in my iPhone app a la the iPad. If your popover is being instantiated from a UIViewController with a UITableView in it that does not fill up the whole window, then you may have some issues getting the popover to […]
I finish my undergrad in less than 2 months. That’s less than 60 days. I’m going to miss it. I think I already do.
A look into my final year design project, and some of the tools and architectures used to create it.
Facebook’s Graph API doesn’t have a method to easily retrieve a cover photo. However, provided that you (or a user) has given your app access to their Photo Albums, you can get the photo pretty easily. The best way to get it through a single request is using the following FQL query. SELECT cover_object_id from […]
Firstly, I just want to say I’m pretty proud of myself for writing compilable code at 4:30am. Go me. I am making an iOS app as part of my 4th year design project, and we are leveraging Facebook for it. Basically, our app allows you to take a picture of someone’s face and we use […]
Wishing everyone here a Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, and a great new year! Here are some pictures I took at a mall near my house.
I just saw this ad on CNN. Really well done. This is trademark Apple – making technology seem useful to the average person. No one better than Santa Claus!
This is really cool, we just got featured on The Next Web. Check it out. We’ve been having fun watching the traffic spike. 🙂 Update: We got featured on GigaOM too.
“Oh, are you the guys that made TopForty? I use that all the time when I’m studying!” At Demo Day, someone came up and said this to us – great feeling!
Figured I would give a quick update as to how TopForty.it been doing. We’re about 2 weeks in, and the response has been great. People seem to love the idea, the execution and the UI/UX, which is heartwarming although I still think it’s rough around the edges (won’t tell you where because then you will […]
