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unabashedly unemployed ruby and objective-c coder. email is [email protected]. word is born.

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the unemployed developer : part 1

today i applied for a ruby on rails intern position.  the job specifications were pretty sparse, leading me to believe this is very junior. The job will require a commute, which worries me a bit as I'm running short of savings.

Unfortunately, in my case, i'll take whatever i can get. If I should interview for this, and land a low paying job, this will be my stepping stone to that ideal developer job someplace far away.

It's strange how easy it has been far some people I know to land jobs and interviews. In my case, it seems like a small miracle just to get noticed. Maybe it's my portfolio--I usually throw any leftover code I am working on in a repo. Maybe I should be more conscious of this. It might be my interviewing skills--I have been prone to make mistakes over the phone, miss easy questions that I know, etc. I don't know. Someone told me to look for an interview coach, but this seems a bit overboard. It could be my education. I graduated from a no name school with a non cs degree. Oddly this has helped me. I have a small chip on my shoulder knowing other developers come from ivy league schools and top cs programs. This makes me want to work twice as hard.

It probably makes sense not to over analyze my circumstance. The goal is to find a job and that will be my sole focus. Now back to coding.

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Customize the arrow look and position on a UIPopover

1.) go to your project folder and add new files

2.) make these a Subclass UIPopoverBackgroundView

3.) declare and implement the required methods:

+ (CGFloat)arrowBase; + (CGFloat)arrowHeight; + (UIEdgeInsets)contentViewInsets;

4.) make properties:

@property (nonatomic, strong) UIImageView *arrowImageView; @property (nonatomic, strong) UIImageView *popoverBackgroundImageView;

5.) change the contentViewInsets new positions for the popover arrow depending on the orientation:

+ (UIEdgeInsets)contentViewInsets {     UIInterfaceOrientation orientation = [UIApplication sharedApplication].statusBarOrientation;     if (orientation == 1 || orientation == 2) {     return UIEdgeInsetsMake(-4, -236, 1, 1);     }     else {      return UIEdgeInsetsMake(-10, -282, -18, 10);     } }

6.) Add an arrow image:

        UIImage *popoverBackgroundImage         = [UIImage imageNamed:@"triangle.png"];         self.arrowImageView         = [[UIImageView alloc] initWithImage:popoverBackgroundImage];         [self addSubview:self.arrowImageView];

7.) now in the method where you alloc init a new UIPopOverController, set the property "popoverBackgroundViewClass" to be equal to this custom popover class.

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i am an unemployed ios developer, which is not easy to say considering the so-called talent "shortage" most companies are crying these days (this myth is totally busted imho). Barely any company is touching my resume. My github is an isle of misfit projects and orphaned leftovers.   I left my career to become a developer starting with absolutely no programming experience.  i'm now making exactly 0 cents an hour. I've floated the idea of just walking around midtown manhattan with a big doofy cardboard sign: "will code in objective-c and ruby for food".

this blog will be my outlet (no ios pun intended) to vent my career frustration but more importantly, to broadcast collective wisdom/ignorance on ios programming.