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Hi all! I was very disappointed that my favorite password managers for iOS went to a subscription-only model, so I decided to take matters into my own hands. SecretKeeper is a FREE password manager for iOS, allowing you…

I was looking for a way to keep my kids' minds engaged this summer (instead of letting them watch TV for 30 hours per day), and decided that a family summer project would be a great way of having fun as well as learning…

I once read a post that stated that in addition to Moore's Law and Murphy's Law, there is one additional "law" that applies to technology: At some point, every company has tried to "redo" project management. Their point…

Part 1 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9605966) and Part 2 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9605991) focused on the architecture of GuruFoo.com. Here are some of the lessons we learned along the way...…

Web Application Architecture Our primary web application follows a standard 3-layer design: Presentation/UI layer, Services Layer, and Data Persistence Layer. We make use of CDI throughout our application, but without…

Hello! We’ve recently finished the launch of our latest project, GuruFoo.com (http://www.gurufoo.com) and thought it would be helpful to the community if we discussed our architecture, technologies used, and lessons…

I'm in the process of applying the finishing touches to a new site I've developed. I should be soft-launching it next week, taking a couple of days to tweak, test, and add some initial data to it. After that, it's time…

A friend recently pointed me towards udemy.com and their online course marketplace. Up until a few years ago I was a defense contractor, and a big portion of my job was teaching very technical classes to the defense and…

I've often had grand epiphanies... Huge, earth-changing, multi-zillion dollar ideas! Only to find out (usually 5 minutes later) that the idea has not only been done already, but it's been done by a couple dozen…

I'm in the process of wrapping up my an iOS app that I'll be releasing to the appstore. I've written several in the past, but they were typically for fun and had no revenue stream. This is the first one that I…

My company has a good number of in-house developed mobile apps (iOS and Android) that serve our employees in their day-to-day job functions. These are not commercial apps to be sold in Apple's app store. These are…

My company -- a Fortune 1000 company in the financial sector -- has developed a dozen+ mobile apps in-house. Some of them are targeted at all of our employees, while others are aimed at a specific group or role. Since…