Disclaimer: Yes, I know about the typo “briding” in screenshots, but I’m lazy to redo all, so please ignore and read the article in peace :-)

I was one of the very few people who held on to the last cat OS X (Mountain Lion). I had to switch to Mavericks at office to play with the new shiny language Swift.

I have used this command sparingly in the past and I recently learnt more options by solving couple of my problems. I really don’t know whether grep is the right choice here, but hey! it worked :-)

If you did not have enough time to go through the 50G contents from WWDC'13, I highly recommend you to watch the session 228, aptly named “Hidden Gems in Cocoa and Cocoa Touch”.

If you want to quickly disable internet/networking to test offline features. Doing it frequently with System preferences GUI is quite a slow workflow.

Last Thursday one of my iPad app’s provisioning file has expired. Client brought it to us at the very late moment, the iPad app was distributed internally as an enterprise app. App users are for HVAC technicians, app integrates with their organization’s CRM (Salesforce) so distributing it with App store doesn’t make any sense.

I wrote a small plugin for sublime text to develop salesforce. I’m glad to share one of my idea to project execution.

If you are experiencing frequent disk I/O and your console is full of

25/08/12 4:30:19.506 PM ALSPlugin 235.55[62]: Failed to get brightness for displayID 0x042731c0

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Here are the collection of snippets to do CRUD operation with ZKSforce (Force.com toolkit for iOS).

Remember this is a SOAP based API, there is a new alternative library available from salesforce called MobileSDK for iOS.

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. And here are the steps how I managed to solve it.

If you are like me, who use more than one machine to develop iOS app and wants to install 4.x and 3.x simulator without re-downloading it on every machine? then I’ve got a solution.

I recently uninstalled all previous versions of xcode (I had all xcode from ios 3.2.x) to install 4.2 on my MBP. Although I freed around 30 GB, noticed an issue shortly. A process named BTServer is utilizing high CPU usage.

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.

Update: I recently found this site called diawi.com which allows you to distribute the app similar to file-sharing sites, drag and drop ipa file and share the link to the testers.

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Recently I was in need of generating sample images for no. of products in my db. I really hate to create a copy of image for each products in my db.

Notepad++ on windows has this beautiful option “View all characters” to display all invisbile characters such as line endings.

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. Our company use SVN and other peers were not aware/interested in Git. So I took the initiative to use svn-git. After months of progress I left with so many branches for features, svn, QA-release and quick-fix for released builds.

I’ve recently stumbled upon studio.html5rocks.com and found the cool trick to display desktop notifications like Gmail.


HD for good configuration computers | SD for little out of date computers

For those who wants to see all levels without completing a level or struck in a level, here is the hack, copy the following code, paste it on url textbox and hit enter.

Yes, every post you come across suggest the same thing, hold your power button and home button for X seconds. Though it is true, unfortunately I had a couple of situations my iphone doesn’t respond to the key combinations. And some time it is very frustrating to hold your buttons so long.