When We Dared to Feed the World
How do you do justice to a moment in your life when you found your Ikigai: when what you were talented at and what you could be paid to do collided with what you deeply love, and what the world truly needs?
What It’s Like to Work for People Who Look Like Me
There is a day in the Munchery office that I will always hold dear in my heart: it was the moment when Conrad Chu, one of our cofounders, invited his parents to tour our office here in SF. I suddenly heard an exchange of Cantonese flying around as his parents marveled at the office shindigs and the efforts of what their son built.
Validate an APNS Certificate From Your Terminal
This is a quick tip for everyone out there setting up an APNS certificate: you can verify the validity of your APNS certificate locally in your terminal before uploading them to platforms like Amazon SNS or Iterable. Sharing this because I tend to forget this little trick that makes setting up APNS certificates painless.
7 Lessons I Learned From My First Software Engineering Job @ CTCT
I am writing this piece as a way to celebrate two years at my first job out of college. It has been a positive experience transitioning from college to professional life, albeit with some inevitable ups and downs, but that should be a guarantee. Nevertheless, below are seven nuggets of knowledge and wisdom I have acquired in my first two years in Silicon Valley.
Supercharging Continuous Delivery with KiF iOS UI Automation
From car manufacturing to software engineering, there has always been an ongoing pursuit for teams to leverage their process of delivering value as a competitive advantage. In the quest for a more-perfect process, Continuous Delivery stands as the tantamount answer to the burning questions of how teams can be more agile, innovative, and adaptive to market feedback. The process of developing quality iOS applications is no different.
iOS Development: Pushing CocoaPods to the Limit
There is a magical tool that I have loved to use ever since I started my iOS development journey, and that is CocoaPods – an extremely easy-to-use tool that allows iOS developers to pull in the libraries and dependencies they need so that they can quickly focus on their own projects.
Starting My First Job: 90 Days with Constant Contact
I cannot believe it has been three months since I walked from Berkeley and walked into my first job in the Silicon Valley. The beginning of this September marks the ninety days that I have been at my first new job as a software engineer for Constant Contact. Below is an account of what it was like for me to start my new job, the things I learned along the way, and the things that get me up every morning ready for work.
Moto Droid to iPhone 4S: Seven Features I Miss from the Switch (And possible workarounds)
After about a year and a half with a Motorola Droid that has recently been on the verge of failing completely, I decided to make a switch to the iPhone 4S. I made this switch partly because of the Droid’s depleting life, my frustrations with the Android OS, and because of my enthusiasm for my understanding of the iOS workflow.