Any non-trivial mobile app created these days needs to have some sort of server to back it up. If not to drive the logic of the app, a server is need to at least persist data outside of the device itself. Since connectivity & latency over mobile networks vary, this complicates our persistence strategy because …
[ Continue Reading... ]Author: Haidersabri
For years I’ve been wrestling with an issue. Am I not reaching my potential as a hacker/entrepreneur by not moving to the promised land of silicon valley? I was able to mitigate that internal crisis by working for the biggest startup in LA, MySpace, from 2007 to 2009. I was able to hit snooze on …
[ Continue Reading... ]I had the honor of presenting on stage with Omar Hamoui at TechCrunch Disrupt 2011 in New York. It was really a blast getting gnonstop ready for a demo. It was even funner rehearsing with Omar before the show. Anyhow, here is the link to the demonstration, and the subsequent launch of Gnonstop Gnomes a …
[ Continue Reading... ]I’ve always been aware of the subject of Computer Vision, but I always signed it off as a completely theoretical subject, or at best something that engineers in the military or nasa work on. I certainly didn’t know enough about its real-world consumer application until about a year ago I was introduced to some computer …
[ Continue Reading... ]I haven’t had a chance to talk much about my new job at Churn Labs yet, mainly because I’m having too much fun building things in the lab. The past 2 months have been really awesome here at the lab. I’ve really found my home with the people I’m working with and the projects I’m …
[ Continue Reading... ]CodeIgniter is a really simple to use PHP web application framework. I just started using it last week for the first time. I dont usually blog about a subject I’m new to, but I wasn’t able to find one location to answer this question, I felt i should jot down these notes in case someone …
[ Continue Reading... ]Last week I walked into a huge tech company that had 30" Dell monitors on every developer’s desk. The obvious reaction was temptation on my part. Anyhow, I started to wonder whether my Mac Pro & Macbook Pro would suppor the high resolution it offers. Turns out the monitor needs a graphics card that supports …
[ Continue Reading... ]I recently completed the beta version of the MySpaceID iPhone SDK. The idea is to create a cocoa library that is easy for iPhone developers to start using when they want to integrate their iPhone applications with MySpaceID. This version of the library comes with support of 3-legged-OAuth, which keeps in tune with MySpace’s devotion …
[ Continue Reading... ]I recently purchased an Amazon Kindle DX because I really like to read books, and I have a ton of eBooks, articles and larger websites I’d like to read through but don’t have the discipline to sit behind a screen to read. I also find it far less enjoyable to read a book (as opposed …
[ Continue Reading... ]So it’s 2:30 am and in my home office I’ve been surfing the net, doing some research about OpenID and it’s footprint in the world today. I was curious how well the wordpress plugin for OpenID has gotten when I stumbled upon an article announcing the WordPress official app for iPhone. So yes, I got …
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