Link: IOS Tutorials from Ray Wenderlich
http://www.raywenderlich.com/tutorials
Continue reading →Simple OCR for numbers only
http://blog.damiles.com/2008/11/basic-ocr-in-opencv/ https://github.com/damiles/basicOCR
Continue reading →IOS 3D Engines
NineEvehGL: Website looks pretty nice. But not sure whether it will go public in the future. Good support for 3D model imports. iSGL3D: Looks pretty geeky and reliable. Seems very easy to use. Not much support for importing 3D models.
Continue reading →git remove deleted files
Method 1: git rm $(git ls-files —deleted) Method 2: git add -u Method 3: git ls-files -z —deleted | xargs -0 git rm (Source: commandlinefu.com)
Continue reading →Fuzzy string match objective-c (Levenshtein Distance Algorithm)
(Source: weblog.wanderingmango.com)
Continue reading →Firefox font-face problem – downloadable font: rejected by sanitizer
This may only affect Firefox on OSX Lion . When embedding a custom font @font-face { font-family: “my-optima”; src: local(‘Optima’), url(‘/css/optima.woff’) format(‘woff’); } Try to vary name the local(‘font-name’) a bit and the problem will be solved.
Continue reading →Secure Amazon EC2 instances
Recently my EC2 server was hacked and it was totally my fault. I enabled password authentication and I set the password way too simple. I took a look at the log and I found out there are indeed many free people who keep trying to log in using brute force method. To secure my server, I decided […]
Continue reading →Adding Core Data for Xcode 4 Projects
In Xcode 3, this is an option to select whether the project uses core data features. If it’s checked, Xcode automatically generates the code to set up the environment. Most of the examples about core data is based on the codes generated by Xcode. However, this feature is taken out in Xcode 4.This post is […]
Continue reading →My knowledge of Asian fonts
Quite often, websites developed in Singapore need to be localized (translated) into other Asian languages. Here’s my experience of working on Asian fonts. This is more useful for Flash designer and developers. But since embedding fonts for HTML is becoming a norm, this may be helpful for HTML work, too. Most fonts only have English […]
Continue reading →Batch Image Resizing Made Easy Again
B.I.R.M.E (Batch Image Resizing Made Easy) finally gets an update and it’s a HTML5 web app now. I’ve finally achieved my goal, to make a software which does not need to be installed and runs in all operating systems. The resizing is done by Javascript so the user do not need to wait for uploading […]
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