Welcome to our new App Hacks series. In this series we will cover tips build better apps, scale them up faster, and maintain success. Our first post in this series is about how to get your iOS app featured on the Apple App Store. When you finish developing your app or if you’re launching a new…
Welcome to another edition of our Famous Bugs series! In this post, we’ll cover the Google bug that outsmarted one of the smartest companies on the planet. It’s no secret that google.com is the most valuable domain in the world. For one minute in September of 2015, it belonged to one lucky man named Sanmay…
Welcome to another edition of our Famous Bugs series! In this post, we’ll cover the PayPal bug that we really wish happened to us. When Chris Reynolds opened his PayPal e-mail statement for June 2013, he realized something wasn’t right. The Pennsylvania PR executive’s balance blew up to an incomprehensible $92,233,720,368,547,800. For everyone out there…
Welcome to another edition of our Famous Bugs series! In this post, we’ll cover the Facebook bug that we’re (maybe) thankful isn’t an actual feature. If you’re human, you’ve wondered how many people really see your posts on Facebook. Well, thanks to a bug in Facebook’s mobile app last year, for a brief moment of brutal honesty,…
Welcome to another edition of our Famous Bugs series! We hope you get a serious laugh out of other people’s pains that came before us. In this post, we’Il explain the fascinating history of the IBM Deep Blue bug. In May of 1997, IBM’s chess-playing computer Deep Blue challenged the World Champion of Chess, Russian…
This YouTube bug is the first in a series of famous bugs — the villains of the developer world — that broke the Internet, or almost did, even if it was for only a few seconds. When YouTube was first launched, nobody, not even the YouTube guys, thought a video would ever be watched two billion times. To…
There are two common virtualization methods. First is the full machine virtualization, think VirtualBox and VMware, which provides virtual machines. On the other hand, there are several containerized applications that use applications such as LXC and Docker. This creates a sandboxed environment where you can install your entire operating system and configure the virtual hardware for each…
Building mobile applications with web technologies greatly speeds up development, as well as the added benefit of shared code between platforms. Sometimes, however, you need capabilities that aren’t available in a web view, or maybe implementing will require too much work. That’s when you break away from your cross-platform heaven back to native development. Here…
While we were working on speeding the run time of our specs, it came to our attention that the Paperclip gem contributes a fair amount to the slowness of the specs, mainly because of its dependency on external software like ImageMagick’s convert and identify; and Unix’s file. Shelling-out may not be this slow, but when…