10 Best AI Chatbot SaaS Tools You Need To Know In 2023
Posted by Andy Yardley in Artificial intelligence on November 30, 2023
Why AI Chatbots for SaaS are the Best Customer Support Automation Tool in 2024 In 2023, it’s expected that chatbot shopping will hit $112 billion. About 40% of spending on cognitive AI goes into software, especially in areas like conversational AI and machine learning. Since the pandemic began, about two-thirds of top global financial firms […]
Replacing a UIView backing layer with CAShapeLayer and ensuring the path is animated on frame change
Posted by Andy Yardley in iPhone on October 29, 2015
Recently i’ve started making a lot of use of CAShapeLayers as the backing for a UIView subclass. The main reason for this is it gives me a reusable high performance background which is especially useful as I find a lot of my apps usually have similar looking views with different content. This is all well […]
Objective C & iOS Weak Singletons
Posted by Andy Yardley in Development, iPhone on February 3, 2013
Temporary shared memory management is always a bit of a difficult problem to solve. There are various well known ways of dealing with this problem but recently i’ve come across a novel solution to this problem that actual takes advantage of Objective C’s Automatic Reference Counting (although it could also work without ARC) The singleton […]
Events App
Posted by Andy Yardley in Development, iPhone on August 8, 2012
Over the last few months i’ve started putting together an app for tracking sporting events. A lot of the ones i’ve used have always lacked in the ability to see what is available on a day. They usually have a horrible list that requires lots of scrolling and it’s especially clear. So I set about […]
The real problem with PHP
Posted by Andy Yardley in Development on July 4, 2012
A few mornings ago a discussion was started around PHP and it’s problems. This discussion was based on the following article: http://me.veekun.com/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/ There were 2 camps, the camp who agreed with the article and that PHP was terrible and the camp that agreed with the article but felt PHP did it’s job and the article […]
iOS Font Name Problem
Posted by Andy Yardley in iPhone on June 14, 2012
I wanted to followup my previous post about iOS font positioning with something else I came across yesterday. While adding a custom font to a new app there was a problem with the font not appearing in the simulator or on device. It had been added correctly to the .plist, included in the project and […]