tldr; I was integrating Oracle’s mobile push SDK and was stuck for 2 months. Turned out they have an embarassing bug involving an underscore! Oracle’s Responsys/PushIO proved right — enterprise product sucks. This post is my rant on how bad Oracle’s product is. The ridiculous bug I spent 2 months to figure out…

Over the past 10 years, I’ve lots of friends and classmates say to me: “I have a great idea for an app. How about we work together?” I’m happy that they’re thinking about creating something that they want to use or make a business out of it. But often, all…

Originally posted on Just2me.com I adopted a new diet — skipping breakfast, time-restricted feeding, and intermittent fasting. You might not be familiar with the feeding and fasting, but you probably screamed NO WAY at the mention of skipping breakfast. Since young, we have been told that breakfast is the most…

It’s end of the year, the best time to prepare and plan for the tax you need to pay for the year. You have little control of how much you earn, but you have absolute control of the tax relief you can get. Here are some great ways to earn…

Flickr Uploadr is a very very weird app. Go to Preferences > About > Click on the Icon, and their secret menu will be shown! There are 2 “secret features”: Enable Video Upload Run at startup These are no secret features! More like hidden features, for some weird reasons. How could Run at startup be hidden? Is Flickr trying to trick all Mac users to ALWAYS run the app on startup? And why would they disable video upload? Their website does support. Their iOS app does support. The old Flickr Uploadr does support. And now, they choose to hide it.

Shortly after launching Jade, I started on a new app. (Download now, if you’re not interested in the story..) While Jade is a great journal app to pen down memorable moments with your child, logging mundane stuff — feedings, diaper change, weight, etc— is best logged somewhere else. I use…

I recently bought a new camera — Olympus E-M10 — triple lens bundle for $998. Such a good buy that I felt I should praise it openly. My Ex — Nikon D3100

Remote — Office Not Required — is a book produced by 37signals, the guys who made Basecamp. I enjoyed Remote very much because it debunks traditional office work (commuting, working from 8am-5pm), and is close to what I believe should be our modern working lifestyle. It is even more relevant…

This is a secret that many online shoppers didn’t know — there is a way to earn extra cash back. It is extra $$, because it is in addition to whatever cashback/discount you can get from your credit card, or applying any promo code. How? By simply using ShopBack. ShopBack…