Month: April 2014

My CocoaPods Catalog

Posted on by lennypham

I can tell you the license plate number on my mom’s car in 1988, but if you asked me which CocoaPods I used on my last project, I couldn’t tell you. Fortunately, through the magic of source control, I can go back in time and look through all the open source libraries I’ve used in the past. Of course, that’s kind of a huge pain in the ass to have to go back through all those projects. To that end, I’ve decided to start making my life a little bit simpler by cataloging all of the open source projects that I’ve used (plus a few that I haven’t) and made them publicly accessible via my github repo. FYI, it’s still a work in progress. OH and you’re welcome 🙂

https://github.com/lennypham/LKPCocoaPodCatalog

A dust-up is brewing in mobile payments, pitting Isis against Best Buy, 7-Eleven

Posted on by lennypham

Alas NFC, we hardly knew ye.

Gigaom

Best Buy(s bby) and 7-Eleven have started shutting down near-field communications (NFC) capabilities in their stores’ point-of-sale terminals, making it even harder for Isis and Google(s goog) to get their fledgling smartphone payments services off the ground.

According to a report in ComputerWorld, payments technology analysts say Best Buy and 7-Eleven began disabling the NFC readers at their checkout stands simply because of the expense. NFC-powered mobile payments have barely cracked the surface in the U.S. – stymied in part by turf wars between Isis and Google – so big retailers see little reason to support it and other smart card technologies. Also, banks are charging higher transaction fees for smart card and NFC payments, giving retailers even less incentive to get behind smartphone payment services.

But there could be a third reason that Best Buy and 7-Eleven aren’t keen on NFC. They’re part of a consortium of big…

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