What Marissa Mayer Brought to Yahoo That Can’t Be Bought or Sold

Creating USSD Applications

Sometimes or maybe all the time it is very hard to explain the technical concepts in a layman’s language. The kind of explanations a 2 year old could relate to. Today I will try to go as low as I can to tell a story about the USSD technology.

Senior Engineers Reduce Risk

If you read articles on career development in software, you’ll already know there are many things a senior engineer is not. They are not, for instance, just someone with ten years of experience. They are not just someone who maintains a popular open source project. They are not…

Reverse engineering visual novels 101

I’d like to make a confession: I love visual novels. For those of you who aren’t in the…

How-to Build an iOS Share Extension in Swift

Note: Updated for Swift 4.

Location-based Pokémon — An “Insider’s” View

“Are you familiar with Pokémon? It’s a game based on capturing and collecting pets…

Some thoughts on Elm Development

Background

I have been playing with Elm for a few months now and have gotten to the point where I am starting to feel like I kn0w my way around the language and how to get things done. This has been a very nice feeling. However, one thing…

Functors and Applicatives

Explanation of functors and applicative functors and why they are useful.

In one of my earlier articles I tried to explain monads in an approachable way. Here’s an attempt to do the same for some other members…