We started working with Angular.js recently and after spending a few days on it, I realised that there a big need for beginner tutorials on it. I’ve tried to document some of the things you might need on day 1. 1. The documentation still sucks so it’s okay if you’re taking more time. Yes, it’s [...]
Github is definitely one of the coolest services to have ever come out. I’m sure you if you calculates the value that it helps create, considering the number of services built there, and the non-developers who end us using that software, it might just be valued at more than Facebook. Anyways, even though I absolutely [...]
We were just featured on the Best Mobile App Developers List in Asia / Middle East. The list features a number of development companies across the US, Europe, UK, Nordic, East European, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Asia and Middle East. We were featured at #2 in the Asian / MidEaster section, right after Robosoft! It [...]
We have been working on a couple of our own applications, and since they do involve a server side components as well, we decided to spend some time to understand which service should we go ahead with. I have been been a big fan of Slicehost for years, and when they got acquired by Rackspace, [...]
You would expect that stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding would easily encode your strings, but since Apple devs usually spend time on more convoluted problems, this still doesn’t work, even after the fifth major iteration of the SDK. So, if you need to URL encode a string, here is what you have to do NSString *encoded = (NSString *)CFURLCreateStringByAddingPercentEscapes( [...]
If you’re planning to start a web application, the first thing that you need is to setup your own server. Usually people start with shared hosting, which sucks if you’re trying to run anything more than a wordpress site. A dedicated server is expensive, and can range between $200 – $9000/month. The best thing to [...]
We have always been big fans for Github, but recently decided to move from github to hosting them ourselves. The only reason was that we have a lot of projects going on and because of that github started getting a little too expensive for us. So we decided to start hosting repositories ourselves. When you [...]
Generatrix is our PHP5 stack for building web based applications. We have been working on it for quite some time and over 20 websites have been built on top of it already. Yet, there are always new things which need to be added to ensure that it’s up to date with the latest happenings in [...]
Push Notifications have been around for quite some time now, but when we started on it, we found out that we were unable to find all the information about creating a demo in one place. After a few hours, we were able to get it to work. Here is what we did. Basically, the code [...]