February 2012
14 posts
Noor on if posting blog entries to Facebook is...
Bicrumjit Bhullar: im enjoying blogging more
Noor: yeah
I need to get into it
Bicrumjit Bhullar: i wonder if people think its too spammy on FB
Noor: eh
there is way more annoying shit on FB
Bicrumjit Bhullar: hah
true
save my cow
Noor: "omg the line at costco is sooooo long"
Bicrumjit Bhullar: haha
Noor: "it's so cold outside where's summer"
Noor: then in summer "it's so hot out here i wish it was winter"
Bicrumjit Bhullar: lol
Let the Robot Drive: The Autonomous Car of the... →
So this is how it starts.
The Prius begins to seem like the Platonic ideal of a driver, against which all others fall short. It can think faster than any mortal driver. It can attend to more information, react more quickly to emergencies, and keep track of more complicated routes. It never panics. It never gets angry. It never even blinks. In short, it is better than human in just about every...
Tweetbot 2.0 →
Tweetbot is a shining example of an opinionated and polished UI with amazing attention to detail.
Superheros →
January 2012
15 posts
Why are software development task estimations... →
Great analogy.
Gesture Recognition on iOS with Attention to... →
Half-assed Gesture Recognition Is Not Good Enough
xScope 3.0 →
Worth the price of addmision just for the Dimensions tool.
Slender →
Seems like a great tool if you work on asset heavy apps.
Giving Computing A Human Face. →
The challenge of designing a personal computer that “the rest of us” would not only buy, but fall crazy in love with…
April 2011
1 post
“You can’t just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to...”
– Steven Paul Jobs
March 2011
3 posts
February 2011
1 post
Tap Tap Revenge 4 →
Tap Tap Revenge 4 is the next iteration in the Tap Tap Revenge series. I was the lead developer for this release.
It’s free and has some great music. Check it out: Tap Tap Revenge 4
November 2010
2 posts
October 2010
1 post
September 2010
1 post
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Short-Circuiting Dictionaries & Ternary Operator...
Recently I had a problem where my NSDictionary was getting short-circutied. Let me explain, take the following code. Actual code changed to protect the innocent.
NSDictionary *aDict = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys: [fooObj fname], @”first_name”, [barObj lname], @”last_name”,nil];
Now later this code was transmitted as a JSON object, and I noticed that in...
July 2010
3 posts
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Remember To →
Remember To, is a location aware reminder App for the iPhone4.
I got tired of not having a App that would be able to run in the background set off alerts whenever I left the house, or passed by some place I needed to get something done.
Remember To
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Social Sync →
Social Sync was my first entry in to the App store. It will compare your iPhone/iPods address book against people you are following on Twitter. Then it lets you choose who’s picture and Twitter URL you want to add to your address book.
Social Sync
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TTR3 used to show off Multitasking on iOS4.
One of my first tasks at Tapulous was working on making our flagship game iOS4 ready.
So it was awesome to see code I wrote featured in such a prominent way by Apple.
Check out the video of it in action on Apple website.
Apple: Multitasking.
June 2010
2 posts
May 2010
6 posts
1 tag
Event-driven programming: More threads aren't... →
Good tutorial on event-driven programming. Instead of spawning off a ton of threads.
Republicans' new Web site not exactly what they... →
Watching the GOP try to use the internet is fun.
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Why Features Don't Matter Anymore: The New Laws of... →
Great piece at the ACM about simplicity in application design. With a follow up by Damien Katz @ http://bit.ly/dDBqSp.
“I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.”
– Wayne Gretzky