Parse has become so unreliable and my users complain a lot about APNS not going through. It's working for some and not working for many in PROD. Hard to figure why it's not working as everything else you touch in Parse will ask for a paid service (straight to Enterprise Plan!). Will have to code something by myself.
After a lot of back and forth I went with the late-2013 15" rMBP and I don't regret it for a minute. I know, it's expensive but if you can afford and as someone else said here, after you spend some time with the retina display it's hard to get back to a non-retina display, I can tell you that for sure, especially when you work on the high-resolution ratio...you can fit a lot more content at that resolution and is quite useful when you design.
If you ask me as a developer of my apps, of course, I'd say all my apps that I developed during 2013 with a special shout-out to my Quotegram iOS app (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quotegram/id705700846). It taught a bunch in terms of planning, marketing, interacting with bloggers and the whole 9-yard.
That's a great advice. I would say, in this day and age, if you are starting to learn then learn it correct. Learn a JS framework like Angular and build your client as purely browser based and learn another framework such Ruby-on-Rails or Laravel or CodeIgniter to just serve JSON data for your JS client. I think that's the route to go as your data feeds can be leveraged on many different mobile clients as well.
This day and age people tend to get easily low on their morale for every little reason. I wanted to help them quickly recharge themselves with some great quotes that inspires and boost them up, most of the time.
In that process I'm working on my iOS app Quotegram, which is now available in the AppStore. It's one of the best looking apps on the Quotes niche on the AppStore.
It's cool because practically it has helped me recharge myself in a couple instances in the recent past and I'm sure it would help those in need of a quick recharge.
I clearly get what you meant, been there and toggled panels enough to get away with it. I'm counting on the retina display and higher resolution to get around a portion of this overhead.
Thanks for the great advice. Eventually that's what I did, maxed out the RAM to 16GB and upgraded the SSD to 256GB and compromised on the 13" screen size. Apple Live Chat person said try this and see how you feel and if not then upgrade to 15" and I thought that kind of make sense. I hope I find 13" comfortable; otherwise I have to shell out another $500 for the 15" similar spec.
Yes, I do some design work as well and I used to live with a 13" MacBook hooked up to a 24" external monitor and it worked fine for me but wanted to get away from that monitor dependency.
I think this make sense since I can always bootcamp it when I need to do something on the Windows side. And that brings a good point, the reason I don't bootcamp now on my 2008 MacBook Unibody is that it's not that responsive when I tried a while ago. That kind of tells me that the new Air is the best option if I can justify shelling out a few hundred more dollars but I think since I'm developing for iOS as well it might be just worth it.
Had it on my iPhone 4S and the installation was the smoothest so far. Running it on your primary phone could be a bit risky, depends on how you use it. I use Podcasts app a lot and having that completely broken is unacceptable to me. I'm going to revert back to iOS6 for now until Beta 3 or higher comes out. Also, I hate the Home screen and the icons...just so terrible of a job from Ive and his team.
I used to use Evernote to keep track of my ever growing ideas but ultimately found keep a moleskine fits me very well...the feeling of writing it down by myself, a chance to scribble, a chance to sketch etc. made it a better fit for me and I'l sticking to that. I greatly miss the fantastic Evernote search though ;-)
It's a tech blog that was well maintained up until a year back but then I got focused on other projects and didn't get much time and energy to maintain it well.
It has good potential with a decent community vibe (one post itself has got more than 600 comments) if someone can keep it up with some good content. It generates a few thousand dollars a year in ads even though (a lot) more can be done to amp up that revenue in multitudes.
If someone is willing to take on a couple years old site with nice page ranks and keep up with it I'm open to sell it.
I was heavy on CodeIgniter before and ever since I launched another website with Laravel I don't feel like going back to CI. In fact if I get time I wanted to relaunch my other sites with Laravel. If you closely follow the MVC frameworks and the way they are moving forward Laravel sounds like right on the track which CI lags big time. Give it a serious try and you will know. I got completely hooked with its robust Routing system.
Congratulations on the launch...5 months is a long time and as a few said here it's easy to give up during this time.
I would suggest give it a little categories grouping and let people filter things through their preference. A way to filter through the person who quoted this wouldn't hurt too. More power to the people and they feel good.
The idea is to help Muslims know their obligatory prayer times and also to help them keep track of their prayers. Learned iOS and built it all by myself including the design work.
I launched it for $0.99, made $10 or so and then made it free and since then saw a significant increase in downloads but since it's a free app without any ads it's not making any money right now.
I would love to hear from you on how to possibly monetize this without compromising the good intentions of making this app.