Thursday, August 19, 2010

List of Foods to Avoid during Pregnancy

To be healthy, eat a balanced diet.  When you're pregnant, take extra cautions on the following foods to ensure that your baby will be born free of toxicity:
  • Carbonated diet beverages with artificial sweeteners
  • Soft cheeses not made from pasteurized milk
  • Raw or undercooked eggs, meats, and seafoods
  • Smoked seafoods
  • Foods from contaminated environment
  • Unwashed vegetables and fruits
  • Caffinated beverages
  • Alcohol
Sources: http://www.americanpregnancy.org/pregnancyhealth/foodstoavoid.html
http://www.americanpregnancy.org/pregnancyhealth/foodstoavoid.html

Monday, August 16, 2010

Possible Sampling Problems

One of the results from NY Daily News-Marist poll of 809 adults: only 2% of Republicans had bedbugs, while 12% of Democrats did in NYC.

Among 165 startup founders who received venture capitals in 2010, CB Insight found 92% of them were men.

The Big Picture on Testing an iPhone App

Provision the devices for testers
  1. Ask your testers to download the UDID Sender app from iTunes for free. Tap the Send button to add your email address.
  2. Log into your Provisional Portal account, create a provision profile for each UDID identifier that you received, which can then be downloaded to your computer. 
  3. Copy the provision profile file to the Organizer and email it to every tester with the instructions on installing it on the device.  Ask them to drill down to Settings>General>Profiles to verify the new expiration date.
Provision the iPhone application
  1. Log into your Provisional Portal account, create the provision profile under the Ad Hoc tab, and then download it to your computer.
  2. Copy the provision profile to the Organizer in the Xcode.
Email the files to your testers
  1. Email it to every tester with instructions to sync the .mobileprovision and .app files to his device from iTunes. Ask them to drill down to Settings>General>Profiles to verify the new expiration date and locate the app icon from the home screen.  However, a tester must remove any existing  files before downloading the new ones.
  2. Track the progress with your testers.
Links for developers: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/40154/how-do-you-beta-test-an-iphone-app