Amazon is a really cool place with very interesting challenges to tackle. The group I was in when I interned there was the Item Authority team. They are the ones who determine if two items being sold on the Amazon platform are actually the same thing. Anyway, Amazon engineers are all on pager rotation for fixing stuff when things go …
read more »It’s been about half a year now since I started working on AvidTap. Through this time period I’ve experienced some ups and downs associated with working for yourself. Some of these experiences further solidifies my belief that talk is pointless and action is more important. Your Idea Will Change Wouldn’t it be great to just think of something, implement it …
read more »Scenario There have been scenarios where I wanted to offload some processing to be done in a separate thread. One example is when I want to geocode certain addresses but don’t need the result of the geocoding in order to return results to the client. There is no point to wait for the geocode request to another server in order …
read more »Hakyll 4 had been released for a while and I haven’t got around to upgrade until now. The old source code for my blog generated by Hakyll 3 will live in this branch. New code for Hakyll 4 will be on master. Like previously I wanted to keep the same functionality that I had on WordPress. Luckily Hakyll 4 makes …
read more »My co-founders and I attended the CRFA Show in Toronto earlier this month. A day after the CRFA Show, Kaz and I then drove to NYC for Coffee Fest. Both shows were awesome and we talked to many interested customers. At Coffee Fest, AvidTap also won the best new product award. The organizers told us that we got the highest …
read more »AvidTap’s promo video is now up: Thanks to Café Pamenar for letting us use their space! Considering we had very limited budget I’m pretty happy with the result! I make a cameo appearance at about 1:06 into the video. I’m also heading to NY in couple weeks for Coffee Fest. AvidTap is in the new product showcase, please vote for …
read more »Congrats @marsdd #VentureStart funded companies! ReachStreet,Hovr,AvidTap,Virtual Next,Life Control Sftwr,Appolonia Health,ShotLst,TrendyMed — Sarah Lenarcic (@SarahLenarcic) February 21, 2013 Yay! AvidTap got some funding from VentureStart. Thanks to Sarah Lenarcic, Nathan Monk and our MaRS advisors for guiding us through the process. It’s been an up and down journey so far, so even though we’re … read more »
I’ve come across several instances where developers don’t really understand how to do multithread programming properly. While it’s fairly easy to put together a mobile app with prototype quality that looks the part, if things are not done properly you can get into some pretty nasty stability issues. My post on reference counting on iOS is an attempt to share …
read more »Below are links for redirecting users to each platform’s app store. Windows Phone http://windowsphone.com/s?appid=<app id> E.g. http://windowsphone.com/s?appid=ae13c46a-eed5-4c1a-8873-160c1635bbfa iOS http://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/id<app id> E.g. http://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/id516359938 Android https://market.android.com/details?id=<namespace> E.g. https://market.android.com/details?id=com.herocraft.game.farmfrenzy BlackBerry http://appworld.blackberry.com/webstore/content/<app id>/ E.g. http://appworld.blackberry.com/webstore/content/3302/ …
read more »Every company and every industry is comprised of people that are in it for the right reasons and the rest who are just going through the motions. The teaching profession is no different. However, I have a lot of respect for great teachers and I had the good fortune to have seen some of them at work. Below are some …
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