Recently at work, we had an issue where a redirection to a certain site was failing (404) on Safari but not in any of the other major browsers. While Safari doesn’t have as robust a developer tool as Chrome, it Read more…
I was following a CodePath tutorial on creating a Tip Calculator. The author is using an earlier version of Xcode while I am using Xcode 8.2. The problem I faced is that while the author was able to drag and associate an object’s action Read more…
One of my New Year resolutions was to complete a full marathon and despite some breaks due to vacations, I was most proud of the fact that I completed the SF Marathon in 4:25. My goal was to do it Read more…
All I can say, it’s been a joyous 4 years and been through some transformations both personally and professionally — and in my view all for the better. Personal Updates (in order of priority) —————- – Added my 2nd offspring Read more…
2011 was a rather exciting year for me, although from my posts (or lack of it), you wouldn’t have guessed that. I had the honor of my cousin (who is a Priest-Monk) visit me early on in the year and Read more…
I’ve been a Mac user since 2007 and since then I’ve become somewhat of a Apple fanboy. I was first impressed with the MacBookPro’s (MBP) sleeping indicator, the casing, the magnetic power cord and just about every little feature that Read more…
My favorite method to test a site prior to changing the DNS (to point to the new IP address) is to edit one’s own local hosts file. The hosts file is usually located in C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts (Open with notepad) or /etc/hosts Read more…
I had posted earlier about whether it was better to use www or not to use www as a prefix to your domain. My conclusion back then was to go without www as I have done on my website. However, Read more…
… “DON’T TRY TO BEAT THE STOCK MARKET“. This advice has been out there for a long time but I am one of those people who don’t learn except through experience. Rest assured, my son hopefully won’t repeat my mistakes Read more…
The recent debacle over the iPhone 4G leak and Gizmodo’s attempt to capitalize was on every tech news section the past couple of weeks. As you may have read, Gizmodo’s Editor Jason Chen’s house was raided and his computer equipment Read more…