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[30 Oct 2009 | No Comment | 998 views]
Why the Founders Visa could suck

If you have been following blogs of people associated with the technology and entrepreneurship industry (yes, entrepreneurship is also an industry) with any level of intent, you MUST have heard of the Founders Visa movement.

In this post, I express my opinions about the whole movement. To me, it’s just a disaster from the get go. Unless it’s modified to actually make permanent residency easier to obtain, the Founders Visa would be just another failed attempt by the industry to reform America’s immigration system.

iPhone/Mac Dev »

[15 Oct 2009 | No Comment | 819 views]
Should you use Interface Builder?

Ever since I started out with iPhone development, I have seen a lot of debate online about the pros and cons of using the Interface Builder tool that comes as a part of the developer toolkit for Mac and iPhone development. In this post, I put forward my opinion that I believe is also the opinion of seasoned Mac developers. And that is – try to use Interface Builder for your Mac/iPhone apps as much as possible. There is a reason Apple has spent so many years perfecting it.

The article rebukes certain ill-conceived notions and aims to encourage the reader to seek out the pros and cons of using IB on their own on a case by case basis.