When accessing a Core Data database, you might notice that the timestamp is not exactly a unix epoch timestamp but an Apple specific one instead. In this post, I explain the difference and how to convert that into the popular Unix timestamp that we all love.

In a couple of days I will be mentoring a team of students at the NYUAD 2015 hackathon - Building Apps for Social Good in the Arab World. Since I tend to participate often in development competitions and hackathons, I thought I'd compile a comprehensive list of essential tools needed ...

As the end of every year approaches, we start to reflect back on it. As software developers, our questions can be many, What did I work on? What did I produce? What mistakes I have done, and what did we learn from them. Today, I'll seize this opportunity to ...

Recently I have been following a couple of online courses on Coursera and udacity, and I must say the quality of the material is really good. Browsing through several programming and computer science courses you can notice that the quality of the material is at least as good as many...

Hello everyone, as you can see I have just rolled out a new design for this blog, the old one was nice yet had some evident problems in terms of UX, layout and colors. So I decided to revamp it into this. The new blog design is simpler, the layout ...

Hello everyone, I have recently decided to start a blog for sharing my thoughts about programming, software, web development and everything that goes around those topics. Programming is not the simple skill you acquire within a defined period of time and keep using it over and over again within repetitive ...