WhatsApp “Bigger Than Twitter” With Over 200M Monthly Active Users

News

• WhatsApp “Bigger Than Twitter” With Over 200M Monthly Active Users, 8B Inbound And 12B Outbound Messages Daily I always like number of active users/engineers. :)
• Why LinkedIn dumped HTML5 & went native for its mobile apps HTML5 requires more imagination to work with….

Dev

• Floobits Cross-editor real-time collaboration. Looks promising. Will be good for pair programming. May be I’ll write one for AppCode…
• The single most useful thing in bash to search through history. This is wat I always wanted!
• A NON-MAGICAL INTRODUCTION TO PIP AND VIRTUALENV FOR PYTHON BEGINNERS
• The Definitive Reference To Why Maybe Is Better Than Null I hate Null pointer exception in Java. I think iOS handles it better.
• ack 2.0 has been released to search through source code in grep way.
• David O Brien’s Videos nice iOS tutorials
• Interface Builder – Curse or Convenience? I don’t like Interface Builder. It brings a lot of mess.
• TSMessages This framework provides an easy to use class to show little notification views on the top of the screen. (à la Tweetbot)
• Smoother Signatures make nice lines
• Capture a Signature on iOS
• StringScore is an Objective-C library which provides super fast fuzzy string matching/scoring. Based on the JavaScript library of the same name
• iOS Templates for sketch application