Dev Diary

This is something I’ve started in Jan ‘15. This is to practice a habit of keeping a log of stuff I do which took me a lot of time to figure out myself (may be I’m not efficient?

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iPad Pro and Apple

Last Sunday, I got to try iPad pro with all its accessories (most of the outlet here has only iPad pro without keyboard & pencil).

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Kids these days

Last weekend I was fortunate to be a technical evaluator of an hackathon. Yes, I’m trying to be vague here, as my company sponsored this event at a most reputed university of our state, this post is just my view.

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Some funniest moments from my appraisal

I had my one-on-one meeting for 2012-13 appraisal this week. I was disappointed with the feedback given to me. Well, I have been _work_ing for very long time, and I know if you are not hurt then it is not an appraisal.

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iCloud Gotchas

Integrating iCloud with core data was easy when I found this tutorial, but I ran into few issues while implementing and testing it on devices.

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BTServer CPU Usage

I recently uninstalled all previous versions of xcode (I had all xcode from ios 3.2.x) to install 4.2 on my MBP.

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Idea to action: Tile this

Not many of my ideas are converted to a project, this one has seen its light last week. Though I haven’t completed all the UI and features of my original vision, it is better to have one working idea than nothing.

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How to view (Windows) line ending characters on Mac OSX

Notepad++ on windows has this beautiful option “View all characters” to display all invisbile characters such as line endings. Programming editors on mac like Textwrangler and Textmate has an option to Show Invisibles but failed to display the character block for Carriage Return as Notepad used to.

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Recommended Git workflow

I recently started using Git as my revision control tool. Impressed by the use of branching and merging, I create and merge a lot of branches.

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