One of my hobby is to star or clone open source iOS components/libraries in Github. There are just many good open source projects there that can speed up app development. And I’m pretty sure many apps in the app store are using these open source libraries. Unfortunately, most apps don’t act like good open source citizens by not showing the attributions.
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Some fun things you can do to pimp your OSX Terminal: (I’m using Mountain Lion fyi)
Add this line to ~/.bash_profile (Note: You should see the yellow emoji with shade below)
export PS1='\[\e[0;37m\]⌘ \[\e[1;36m\]\W\[\e[1;33m\] <put_emoji_here> \[\e[0m\]'
Replace <put_emoji_here> with any emoji you want. Alt+Command+T to open emoji window.
Above line not only adds emoji, but also remove name and hostname, and only show current directory name (not full path). Read here for more information.
So Ninja Blocks came last week. Still thinking of what to do with it though. And also when to play with it. 😜 Weekend was busy with Facebook Hacker Cup. Did you participate? How did you do? I couldn’t finish the third problem. The program I wrote worked, but took quite some time to complete a test case. （＞д＜）
Got good news today. I passed the Japanese Language Proficiency Test Level 2! ＼（Ｔ∇Ｔ）／ Barely passed it though. Maybe I’ll take level 2 again this year and will aim for a better score. Did you take one? How was the result?
Yesterday was that time of the year where another year of my life has gone by. Just like most people, I like to look back and see what I have been doing and what I have accomplished. And it’s easy to do these days thanks to Facebook and Twitter.
Read on →Not so many pictures last week. We just went to Namba on weekend. I wasn’t really planning on buying anything. It was just that it’s been a long time since I last visited Namba. But unexpectedly, we got some cool stuff! Like the goods from 宇宙兄弟 (Space Brothers) anime! And a Mini Cooper remote control car! I’m so gonna hack that thing to control it with iPhone. (⌒▽⌒)☆
Oh and I had my birthday yesterday so I made Scribeit for iPhone free for a limited time. Grab it now! ;)
Not much happened last week. But there was one very good news. Scribeit has been approved and now is now available on the App Store. Grab it and tell me what you think （＾ _ ＾）
On weekend, we went to the World Snake Exhibition. Because you know, it’s the year of Slytherin! As expected, nobody spoke parseltongue.
If you didn’t know, I just released a new version of my old app, Scribeit. While I was looking for a way to promote and market it, I figured maybe Apple has some tips and tricks to do this. So I went to iTunes Connect and I noticed there was App Store Marketing and Advertising Guidelines for Developers. I visit iTunes Connect frequently to check Sales and Trends or Payments and Financial Reports, but never bothered to read it.
Read on →From Walter Isaacson’s Steve Jobs, regarding Job’s superpower Reality Distortion Field:
There was little that could shield you from the force, Hertzfeld discovered. “Amazingly, the reality distortion field seemed to be effective even if you were acutely aware of it. We would often discuss potential techniques for grounding it, but after a while most of us gave up, accepting it as a force of nature.” After Jobs decreed that the sodas in the office refrigerator be replaced by Odwalla organic orange and carrot juices, someone on the team had T-shirts made. “Reality Distortion Field,” they said on the front, and on the back, “It’s in the juice!”
I want that T-shirt!!
Read on →From Walter Isaacson’s Steve Jobs, the Mac was initially called Annie:
One of Raskin’s dreams was to build an inexpensive computer for the masses, and in 1979 he convinced Mike Markkula to put him in charge of a small development project code-named “Annie” to do just that. Since Raskin thought it was sexist to name computers after women, he redubbed the project in honor of his favorite type of apple, the McIntosh. But he changed the spelling in order not to conflict with the name of the audio equipment maker McIntosh Laboratory. The proposed computer became known as the Macintosh.
Today I learned that a guy named Jef Raskin was the biological father of what we know now as Mac.
Read on →Jobs on Walter Isaacson’s Steve Jobs:
Read on →I never worried about money. I grew up in a middle-class family, so I never thought I would starve. And I learned at Atari that I could be an okay engineer, so I always knew I could get by. I was voluntarily poor when I was in college and India, and I lived a pretty simple life even when I was working. So I went from fairly poor, which was wonderful, because I didn’t have to worry about money, to being incredibly rich, when I also didn’t have to worry about money.