Cricketainment iPad App Sneak PeekPosted on Published February 16, 2013April 26, 2012 by Tilo Some shots of a native iPad app that I have been making. I finished designing most of it, and have implemented the screens below. More details coming soon.
Presenting PeekabooPosted on Published February 16, 2013March 16, 2012 by Tilo 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.
How we used free + open source tools to build a facial recognition appPosted on Published March 16, 2012February 8, 2012 by Tilo A look into my final year design project, and some of the tools and architectures used to create it.
Get your Facebook Cover Photo using FQLPosted on Published February 8, 2012February 4, 2012 by Tilo 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 […]
Cool little Objective-C Method for grouping Facebook likesPosted on Published February 8, 2012February 4, 2012 by Tilo 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 […]
An Update on TopForty.itPosted on Published February 8, 2012December 3, 2011 by Tilo 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 […]
OpenCV on Mac OSX: A step-by-step guidePosted on Published December 6, 2016October 25, 2011 by Tilo Want to set up OpenCV on your Mac? Read this!
Some Interview HelpPosted on Published December 25, 2011October 9, 2011 by Tilo Here are some good interview resources that I’ve found over time. Felt it would be useful to friends who are going in for their first full-time technical interview. Great Hacker News Thread with tons of resources Steve Yegge’s Get that job at Google Common algorithm questions asked during an interview Front end Engineering Interview Questions […]
iPhone 4SPosted on Published December 25, 2011October 8, 2011 by Tilo Am I disappointed by Apple’s release today? Yes, but I think it was inevitable. We were expecting 2 new phones, one with a brand new design and one that was super cheap. I’m not surprised that it wasn’t doable. I’m still getting an iPhone 4S though, since I’m still using an iPhone 2G (That’s right, […]
DashPosted on Published May 22, 2016September 9, 2011 by Tilo A look into the Dash Language by Google
Snappier YUI3 ScrollviewPosted on Published December 25, 2011August 26, 2011 by Tilo YUI3 Scrollview is great but sometimes, it’s not “nativey” enough for me. I fooled around a lot with the config parameters and finally found one that I think works well (especially on iOS). Try this config object to make your YUI3 Scrollview instance feel a little snappier. var scrollView = new Y.ScrollView({ srcNode: ‘#resultList’, height: […]
Making an iOS-Style Popover with YUI3Posted on Published May 24, 2012August 17, 2011 by Tilo One of the things I worked on this summer during my internship with the YUI team was building the Panel widget that’s shipping with YUI3.4.0. I like the whole “windowing” space, because I think it’s an area where the web can do a lot better. Modal overlays look gorgeous in iOS and there’s no reason […]
Good softwarePosted on Published August 17, 2011August 12, 2011 by Tilo Was in the car going to lunch today and was having a conversation with Matt Sweeney regarding web application development, and tools that we use to solve some problems. I think we were talking about testing frameworks and code coverage tools. Anyway, he said something that made a lot of sense (everything he says makes […]
Introducing CrictainmentPosted on Published May 23, 2012August 8, 2011 by Tilo Update: I’ve been working on transferring this into a native iPad app. See the newer post here I want to introduce an app that I worked on this term for Yahoo!’s Hackathon. It’s called Crictainment and it’s a mobile web app that curates media related to cricket (you know, the sport). Screenshots Open Crictainment in […]
What building and releasing a web app in 3 days taught mePosted on Published December 25, 2011February 21, 2011 by Tilo I recently built and released www.adore.ly with two friends. I learned a lot in the process. It may help you.
