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Rainer Brockerhoff used to tell that being clueless makes you get no answers for your questions. In the beggining, I didn’t understand why. Today I’ve finally figured out what a true clueless person is. And I’m talking about a person who has this word tattooed in her forehead.

I was trying to get some good reputation answering questions on Stack Overflow and a guy asked a question about getting information displayed in a custom way on a UITableViewCell. I told them to subclass it and add four UILabels to it. Problem solved, right? Wrong! The guy asked how they should do that. Well folks, I’m not sure if I’m talking about a guy who doesn’t know how to do that. What I know is that they wanted me to do the entire work for them, so they would just copy and paste the code and it would work like a magic. Yes, magic! No work at all. “Let me just get someone to do the work for me”.

Yeah guys, this is THE way to not get your questions answered. When asking something, try to learn from your question. Trying to get other people to do the work for you will not work. I recomend this great article by Matt Gemmell.

Rainer, you were right.

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Hello friends, I’m here to tell you about my newest project. It’s called Sensitive Code, and is a blog about programming. I thought it would be a great way to get some visibility, so I started this blog. The next steps are to write a lot of posts and get some people to write with me. Go check it out!

There are still uses for animated GIFs.

Today I renewed the Chiaro web hosting. This blog is hosted on the same server I host Chiaro website. It’s renewed until 2011. Also, I registered the domains chiarosoftware.com and chiarosw.com. They now redirect to Chiaro website. I found a discount cupom which allowed me to pay $1.17 for a domain registration on GoDaddy. If you would like to get a domain for just $1.99, use the banner bellow:

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