Engineering Management
I recently updated to Sublime Text 3. While doing that, I decided to take some time to upgrade my code editor’s looks and functionality. I spend most of my day on this app, so it should look and feel great. Here’s what my Sublime Text looks like. Here are the plugins that I use: Hero Theme […]
Csaba Okrana wrote a great post with useful git commands. I especially liked the section on removing merged branches.
Lately, I have been hosting a bunch of NodeJS apps on DigitalOcean’s latest Ubuntu VPS. There are a bunch of articles online on how to set up NodeJS and npm on a VPS, but some of these articles are now outdated and others make things unnecessarily complicated. It’s actually pretty simple! I used this guide […]
This article talks about how to use Handlebars templates on the client and the server, and how to avoid some pitfalls while doing so.
Navigate through your filesystem easily by copying and pasting these few lines into your .bashrc or .zshrc.
All web developers today should be testing their websites/web applications on mobile devices. I don’t mean simulators or emulators; I mean real-life devices that you hold in your hand. I’d like to share my development workflow, to help you understand how I develop on my local server, test changes on devices, and share the current state of my work with others via URLs.
Make your Github Pages look pretty. Every time I want to make Github Pages for my open source projects, I start from scratch. I decided to fix that today. This morning, I took some time to make PrettyPages, an HTML template that makes it really easy to make nice looking Github Pages. Just copy/paste the […]
I’m a big fan of tooltips and popovers – widgets that provides contextual information on demand. I see them all over the place but I didn’t find one in YUI that I particularly liked, so I wrote my own. If you use YUI 3 for front-end development, you can now take advantage of Y.Tipsy and […]
Here’s something I hacked up quickly today. I’m not a fan of the default YUI3 Tabview skins, so I tried to make more modern. Check out the demo.
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 […]
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 […]
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: […]
