Sam Soffes

In this year's RailsConf keynote, DHH talked about progress.

RubyMotion was released today.

I had the privilege of being on The Industry Podcast.

Cheddar is an app I started working on November of last year.

Tonight I spent an hour on a simple animation.

Responsive web design is what all the cool kids are up to these days.

You can now hire me.

Really excited to finally be able to introduce Shares.

Recently in IncrediBooth, I greatly decreased the size of the IPA we send to Apple.

So, I'm selling all of my stuff.

If you've kept up with me at all the last couple of years, you already know what this post is about.

Automatic Reference Counting (or ARC) is a new advancement in Objective-C with the LLVM compiler.

I recently installed gaug.es on my site (which is totally awesome).

I generally suck at managing money.

Ever had a UITableViewCell's imageView not update when you set it's image in a callback or block?

Here's an excerpt from a great blog post on why you should always initialize your variables to nil.

I'm a fan of living on the edge.

Here's my basic rake task I use to deploy my blog: Notice I run rake assets:precompile after I deploy to Heroku.

I released SSToolkit awhile ago.

Everlane is a new startup that started here in San Francisco.

I really love iChat.

Syntax highlight in Ruby is annoying.

Since I joined the ranks at Hipstamatic a few months ago, I've been working on a lot of different things (including some really exciting new stuff I'll be able to show off in a few weeks).

Sorry if you left some comments.

The Andiamo Group is the worst recruiting group I have ever encountered.

Not to brag, but I rock at selling stuff on Craig's List.

As of September 1st, I will be working at Synthetic, the makers of Hipstamatic!

I've found whenever I get stuck on something hard, notebooks help.

Here's how I finally got Compass working with Rails 3.1rc4 (with includes, sprites, etc).

Lately I've been working with Hipstamatic on a new really exciting product.

Yesterday, Scribd submitted the app I've been working on for the last 6 months.

I choose not to attend college.

If you haven't heard of Cloud App, you must be living under a rock or something else that shields you from awesome.

Many of the apps I work on are usually 100% custom.

National Geographic released a video about the typical human.

I was bragging on Twitter about how I just made my application way better with some simple tweaks.

I recently shot a video of my good friend, Kyle Steed, and his 52 Profiles project before I moved from Texas.

Over the weekend, I messed around and added some stuff to SSToolkit.

My friend, @iTod, just released a great application called Shapes.

So I know we all joked that Duke Nukem Forever and Tweetie 2 would never come out.

I've been looking for a real job for awhile now.

So maybe you've seen #newtwitter, this post on TechCrunch about Facebook with columns, or Twitter for iPad.

Twitter is down a lot.

My hate (and love) for the new Mac App Store Continue reading →

Thoughts about the government and the IRS.

Thoughts on my new AT&T MicroCell.

This is the age old question for app developers.

Throwback Mountian Dew is the best beverage ever created.

So writing code is a very intimate thing.

So if you remember, I wrote a blog post about a year ago about life and such.