[SMD] - 8L0G5PH3R3

First post of the brand new year

SMD — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 18:14:57 +0000

I’ve been working on iPhone apps for the past year and have done very little web development. If I were to make a new app today, it would be an iPhone app.

Happy new year!

Stop 114A : Internet Blackout Day

SMD — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 22:06:31 +0000

]]>

Sabah ICT Seminar

SMD — Sat, 26 May 2012 14:37:21 +0000

Here is the slide for a talk I gave at the 6th Sabah ICT Seminar and Webcamp KK on 8th May 2012.

Convert string to MD5 hash

SMD — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 14:46:59 +0000

Add Security.framework to your project

A handy way to dismiss keyboard

SMD — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:28:11 +0000

This method looks at the current view and its subview hierarchy for the text field that is currently the first responder. If it finds one, it asks that text field to resign as first responder. If the force parameter is set to YES, the text field is never even asked; it is forced to resign.

Reference: http://bit.ly/y8Yc29

R.I.P Steve Jobs

SMD — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 03:46:35 +0000

You changed my life and my career. You changed the world for the better. Rest in Peace, Steve Jobs.

Enable SQL Debugging in Xcode4

SMD — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 03:01:34 +0000

If you would like to output the SQL being generated by Core Data, here is the quick steps:

Go to Product -> Edit Scheme
Choose Run YourAppName.app
Add -com.apple.CoreData.SQLDebug 1 to the Arguments Passed On Launch panel

Eid Mubarak & Independence Day Malaysia

SMD — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 22:42:40 +0000

I wish Selamat Hari Raya to all my muslim readers and Happy Independence Day to all Malaysians.

Merdeka! Merdeka! Merdeka!

Limit the size of UITextField

SMD — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 14:52:22 +0000

// Text field delegates
- (BOOL)textField:(UITextField *)textField shouldChangeCharactersInRange:(NSRange)range replacementString:(NSString *)string {
  if ([[textField text] length] + [string length] - range.length > MAX_LENGTH) {
    return NO;
  } else {
    return YES; 
  }
}

https://gist.github.com/1175468

XML Date to CoreData NSDate

SMD — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 05:50:39 +0000

Here is code snippet to parse a XML string to Core Data NSDate.

NSString *string = [currentString stringByTrimmingCharactersInSet:
[NSCharacterSet whitespaceAndNewlineCharacterSet]];
NSLocale* usLocale = [[NSLocale alloc] 
initWithLocaleIdentifier:@"en-US"];
NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
[dateFormatter setLocale:usLocale];
[dateFormatter setDateFormat:@"EEE, dd MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss ZZ"];
NSDate *pubDate = [dateFormatter dateFromString:string];