Some interesting links about Instagram: Instagram Engineering What Powers Instagram: Hundreds of Instances, Dozens of Technologies The Instagram Architecture Facebook Bought For A Cool Billion Dollars Mike Krieger, Instagram at the Airbnb tech talk, on Scaling Instagram Secrets to Lightning Fast Mobile Design 8 Things Instagram Did Right
Great video from Chase Jarvis on his complete workflow from shooting to publishing.
Great talk on how OS manage memory, OS mechanisms explained, must see for your culture
An interesting article about Android fragmentation and supporting the wide range of hardware and os versions. 99.9% of support emails are complaining their device isn’t supported. We currently support 707 devices. Mindblowing. — Natalia Luckyanova (@nattylux) March 27, 2012
Apple published a great doc for newcomers. It’s also a good source of links and articles for all the basics in iOS, from enrolling as developer to publish your first app. Find all related docs links below: Tutorial: Your first iOS app Manage your workflow in XCode Write Objective-C code Acquire basic programming skills Survey [...]
Create a self-signed certificate: $ make-ssl-cert generate-default-snakeoil –force-overwrite It creates the following files: /etc/ssl/private/ssl-cert-snakeoil.key /etc/ssl/certs/ssl-cert-snakeoil.pem Activate Apache SSL module: $ a2enmod ssl Activate Apache default ssl virtual host: $ a2ensite default-ssl Restart Apache: /etc/init.d/apache2 restart You should now see the following page on your webserver: It works! This is the default web page for this [...]
When I tried to upgrade my phone 3GS 3.x to a 4.x firmware found on osxdaily.com, I got the famous “this device isn’t eligible for the requested build”. My jailbroken device was on a 3.1.3 firmware with Cydia installed. After trying different 4.x firmwares, I googled this error message and found an interesting thread here. [...]
The new Fall 2011 courses from Stanford on iTunes U are available! Courses by Paul Hegardy released with a Creative Commons BY-NC-ND license in full HD. 7 courses are available: MVC and Introduction to Objective-C My first iOS App Objective-C Views Protocols and Gestures Multiple MVCs and Segues iPad Apps
A helpful article explaining how to use gdb to debug EXC_BAD_ACCESS: EXC_BAD_ACCESS and no stack trace == more quality time lost in Xcode Also, if you don’t know about NSZombieEnabled you should read the following articles: What is NSZombieEnabled? How do I set NSZombieEnabled in Xcode 4?
If you are interested in device class and OS version statistics, I’ve compiled a list of recent articles: iOS device and OS version stats from Instapaper 3.0 2011-03-24 is it worth supporting iOS 3 in 2011? 2011-03-20 What proportion of all iPhone owners use iOS 4.x today? 2011-01-18 61% of iPads already running iOS 4 [...]