computer-science The outrageous story of the mighty CTO intern Worst job offer ever. A Ā CTO offer, with that many technologies required (they ask for high skill in them)ā¦ 40h per week (8 hours/day) with a contract of 4 months being an intern. Yes, a Ā CTO intern. And for 600ā¬ ($775). Unbelievable. I donāt know if cry or
rails BikeShare! and its new features and UI improvements Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bikeshare Been working hard last week in my spare time, asI havenāt been able of disconnecting my brain after a month and a half non-stop working , in my beloved BikeShare! app. And Iāve accomplished a lot, in my
android Coding contests are fun! Last month and a half weāve been working on an āafter-workā app for an internal contest inMobivery [http://www.mobivery.com] just to see if we could make it. Weāve worked our asses off , our weekends were excuses to work even more, but the result is awesome . Weā
javascript Stranger in a strange land, that is HTML5 Lately Iāve been working in a multiplatform app using HTML5, me being a native enthusiast. And yes, itāscheaper and faster , and whatever you wantā¦ but I still donāt quite like it for āseriousā apps . With serious I mean well crafted and smooth apps. I found discouraging the
ipad How not to keep a customer happy Today the iPad mini was announced, as was announced by the media some months ago. But also a4th gen. iPad Ā was announced. The 3rd gen. iPad was released7 months ago , and now itās outdated Ā ā a 600ā¬ piece of crap. I wonder how the customers feel now. But if you
xcode Why, Apple? Iām always forgetting to install XcodeāsCommand Line Tools Ā after every Xcode update. I mean, if I install it once, why shouldnāt it be installed automatically after each update? Is it really that difficult? I remember with love and fluffy feelings how my life was before all this.
windows8 Magic Trackpad doing its magic on Windows 8 Windows 8 is better with touch controls, or so they sayā¦ and now Iām able to try it. Magic Trackpad Control Panel for Windows [http://www.trackpadmagic.com/magic-trackpad/download] allowed me to configure my Magic Trackpad to work with the brand new Windows 8, and worked perfectly. I
rant Recruiters who don't give up There are some recruiters that doesnāt seem to understand the word NO. They come again and again trying to recruit me but itās funny because they offer me half my salary and much worse work conditions for a boring and meaningless work. They come from consultory firms. That.
xcode Can't compile perfectly good files in Xcode 4.5? This kept happening to me: perfect code that compiled before doesnāt even compile now. Any project. A major shitstorm. ld: in /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneSimulator.platform/Developer/SDKs/iPhoneSimulator6.0.sdk/usr/lib/system/libsystem simm.dylib, can't open file, errno=-22 for architecture i386 Turns
rant How to burn $50 If you want to Ā burn $50 without having to search for a lighter, now youāll know how! Just set up a campaign with Admob . Youāll see a very noticeable increment in your downloadsā¦ 1 person out of 1000 clicks! Awesome. Yeah, yeah, this is plain trolling. I know.
windows8 Two days but finally Windows 8 is alive and running Yeah. Like installing an OS is like achieving something. Didnāt feel this sense of accomplishment since I installed my first Slackware back inā¦ 1999 or something. Turns out what Windows 8 didnāt liked was other HDs plugged in. And also didnāt liked my pendrive with an microSD
windows8 Installing Windows 8 is an odyssey Some days I downloaded (finally) my copy ofWindows 8 Ā from MSAA as always and Iāve spent a lot of hours day trying to install it. No fucking clue. I tried to update my Windows 7 partition, the installer didnāt reported any kind of problem, everything went smooth until
bikeshare Revamps and refactors for a lost user Last week I was rebuilding almost from scratch some parts ofBikeShare! [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bikeshare], my public sharing app for Android. Overall the app was working okay but some user pointed out some sluggish behavior and problems with location handling, that forced me to
ios Every cloud has a silver lining Iāve just been notified my latest compilation of an app submitted to the App Store wasrejected . Well, shit happens, kinda expected it after two days in review. But what startled me was the reason: they said the app couldnāt be used without logging in and for registration purposed
android A small step towards a bright future thanks to Sony and JBQ TuesdaySony released the binaries [http://developer.sonymobile.com/2012/09/03/sony-release-binaries-to-support-jbqs-vanilla-android-xperia-s-project-download/] needed by a project started by no less than Jean-Baptiste Queru , Technical Lead of AOSP.The project [https://android.googlesource.com/device/sony/lt26/+/master] is creating a stock Android rom for the Xperia S smartphone. This meansGoogle
ios Working with Malcom library in iOS Iāve been working withMalcom [https://github.com/MyMalcom/malcom-lib-ios] library for quite some time at work, but I decided to use it for personal apps lately too. Itās what I call aproblem-solver library , because with only one integration you have powerful analytics, a wrapper for your ads and
xcode My XCode 4 skin I use a lot my IDEs during everydayās work, so I try to minimize the strain done to my eyes. And I find it more comfortable if I use dark backgrounds, hence my themes. My theme is based onEGO v2 [http://developers.enormego.com/view/ego_xcode_theme_for_
rails Solving a hateful error with the installation of libv8 (3.3.10.4) Iāve been having problems with my latest Rails installation in myrecently fresh installed Ā Mountain Lion while doing a bundle install . $ bundle install Fetching gem metadata from http://rubygems.org/....... Ā Using rake (0.9.2.2) Ā Using RedCloth (4.2.9) Ā Using multijson (1.2.0) Ā Using activesupport (3.1.
android Doing things right is worth mentioning Iām always being told thatitās too difficult and even impossible make good interfaces and beautiful apps in Android . And I always say the same: given the time and the thought needed, it is more than possible. Lately more and more Ā multi-platform apps are embracingHolo , and they are doing
random Resistance to change The title of this post could be misleading. Iām not gonna talk about the Ā ever-existing resistance to change in requisites (even if you work in an agile environment). What I wanted to talk about isthe resistance to change some of us developers have regarding to technology Ā . In our world
premium Premium services Iām subscribed to somepremium services , and there are two that are literally essential to me as a developer. Iām talking aboutSpotify [http://www.spotify.con] and GitHub [http://github.com]. Iāve been anSpotify Ā subscriber for more than two years. I always code with music, call it white
rails ActionMailer with GMail problem and its workaround I had a little problem today with one of my managed sites, one that was using ActionMailer [http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionMailer/Base.html] for sending mails in a Contact Us form using GMailās Ā SMTP. But reading server logs wasnāt very enlightening. $ tail log/production.log Completed
random Why do people who can't read buy smartphones? I know one must keep the cool in these situations but they make it hard. At least I know I must not answer, just ignoring them does the trick. Ah, well, havenāt said it yet. Iām talking about the people whopunish your app Ā in the stores (App Store
homebrew Fixing Mountain Lion and Homebrew issues Hiya. Like many of you Iāve just installed the brand new OS X version, Mountain Lion, but to my surprise it borked myHomebrew [http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/] installation, and with it my ImageMagick and even my Ā git. After hours fighting Iāve found the solution to all my
android Android 4.0+ with more adoption than expected in new apps Iāve been a little bit surprised lately watching the stats of my new app, BikeShare! [http://bikeshar.es], on Google Play Store. Of course, itās regarding the Android OS mainly used by its users. We can see that4.0+ versions have much more adoption than 2.2/2.
