Author Archives: mazizahmed

Running EC2 + shh-ing + updating Ruby

Posted on November 20, 2012 by mazizahmed

Quick guide on how to get up and running with EC2 with latest version of Ruby. Set up your EC2 instance and download the .pem file Wait until it’s up and running Type ssh -i ScientiaKP.pem YOUR_USER_NAME@YOUR_PUBLIC_DNS in terminal. -i is to specify … Continue reading →

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RubyMotion

Posted on May 4, 2012 by mazizahmed

RubyMotion was released today. It’s let’s you write iOS apps in Ruby. It’s different though… It does’t use a VM but statically complies your code into machine code so all the performance issues we usually associate Ruby with are irrelevant. … Continue reading →

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mruby and iOS

Posted on April 26, 2012 by mazizahmed

So Matz, the designer of Ruby pre-released mruby (minimalistic ruby) a week ago. It’s targeted towards embedded systems. As the name suggests, it’s suppose to have a very small memory footprint and you can interpret it or compile and run … Continue reading →

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Asynchronous [NS]URLConnection With Blocks!

Posted on April 10, 2012 by mazizahmed

UPDATE: NSURLConnection let’s you do this now on iOS 5+. Recently I was working on a project and I needed to make a simple API call to a server and monitor the upload/download progress. Importing an entire networking framework like AFNetworking … Continue reading →

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Hello world!

Posted on April 3, 2012 by mazizahmed

I am an iOS developer. I’ve been programming for about 2 years now. I plan on posting whatever I find interesting/challenging/worth sharing, mostly programming related. Bye

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