Back in June, I requested that Apple let German-language Siri treat “Countdown” the same as “Timer”. Apple now implemented my feature request.
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Proudly prod.ly
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Have you ever tweeted about a product that has you excited? Have you ever posted about a product on Facebook that really annoys you? Are you a “digital native” who feels right at home in social networks, keeping loose contacts with your friends and business associates?
Until today, whenever you would post something to a social network, this information would drown in the flood of other people’s posts. There was no way of finding other people’s opinions about physical products, except perhaps Amazon product reviews. But wouldn’t you trust more your friend’s opinions than those of complete strangers?
Today ProductLayer announces solutions to the problems above. We proudly present: prod.ly – a social network on which your friends share their opinions on various physical products.
DTCoreText 1.6.14
This maintenance release for DTCoreText addresses one pressing issue with images represented in data URLs and a collection of a few contributions.
Xcode 6 drops armv7s
The latest Xcode update no longer builds for the armv7s architecture by default. Is it planned obsolesce or an oversight?
AV Foundation: Code 39 Recognition Confusion
This is a bug report for AV Foundation. I noticed this problem when creating nice vector versions of the 1D barcodes used in figures in my book. The problem with this is that if you are scanning Code39 barcodes you have no way to determine whether it was one with or without check digit.
It’s filed as rdar://18566595 and on Open Radar.
Update Oct 17th: Added Apple’s response “behaves as intended” with a very good explanation given.
Best practices running an iOS open source project on GitHub
This is the second talk (of two) I gave at Mobiconf 2014. The first one – about barcodes – is available to watch here.
All You Need to Know to Leverage Barcodes in Your Apps
This is the first of two talks i gave at Mobiconf 2014. The second one – about Open Source – is available to watch here.
Mobiconf 2014
Polish company Miquido decided 4 months ago that they wanted to have a great conference in Krakow. Since then they worked hard to pull off a conference that easily measures up to older, more established, conferences.
