Perry Hoekstra

If you read any blog post or article on cross-platform mobile development, one of the top arguments for going the cross-platform route is that it offers developers with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript skills the ability “to build innovative, device-neutral mobile apps that work on the iPhone, Android,” etc.  However, a funny thing happened over the […]

As an IT leader, you have read the articles and have gone to the conferences where presenter after presenter has stood up and discussed how important it is for enterprises to develop a mobile strategy in order to ensure a competitive advantage and enable a more productive workforce.  Getting back from these presentations, you have […]

This is a follow-up to my blog post “It’s Going To Take How Long?” and the problem of managing client expectations around building out a mobile app.  In the first post, the client cannot understand why it is going to take X amount of money and X amount of time to build the given mobile […]

In my spare time, I am an adjunct faculty member for an online university and teach a class each semester.  This week the topic was IT innovation and one of my learners was using as their example, the phenomenon of mobile and ‘Bring Your Own Device’. The learner supported their argument that BYOD was a […]

A mobile colleague pointed out a blog post that really hit home based on some recent estimating work I had done.  If a client comes to you and asks for a web-based application that satisfies some business need, you discuss the high-level requirements, get an idea on sizing and tell the client 5 months and […]

Like many software developers, I am an avid follower of Slashdot and in fact, have it as my browser’s home page.  This morning when I started up the browser, the top story on Slashdot at the moment was the announcement that the White House’s ‘We The People’ initiative was releasing a series of API’s in […]

Last summer I worked on an Android prototype as part of a proposal to a major healthcare organization.  In addition to myself, there was a corresponding group that building the same application within iOS.  The objective was to demonstrate our capabilities in building native mobile applications on the two leading mobile platforms.  The core functionality […]

Back in October of 2012, I wrote about how smartphone screen had steadily grown with the current king being the Samsung Galaxy S III with a 4.8-in, 1,280 × 720 display (the best-selling smartphone during third quarter of 2012).  However, the big news out of the Consumer Electronics Show recently held in Las Vegas was […]

Business is increasingly data-driven (raise your hand if you have heard the term “Big Data”) and when you talk to a company about enterprise mobile applications, the issue revolves around providing key data to a mobile workforce when and where they need it.  The important point is “providing key data” and the challenge is connecting […]

The holidays and the downtime allowed me the opportunity to work on some side projects.  In this case, I wanted to update the user interface of some Android mobile applications I had published a year ago.  With the advent of the Android 4.x series of releases, one of the major user interface recommendations is the […]

Recently, David Hemphill and I gave a presentation at the Minnesota Government Information Technology Symposium on the issues that enterprises face when attempting to tie mobile applications (either consumer-facing or internal to the organization) to their existing service infrastructure. Enterprises are looking to extend access to corporate data through a mobile device, quite often looking […]

Yesterday, Google announced through their official blog site that they were offering to their Business, Education and Government customers, a private app store called the Google Play Private Channel.  Up till now, if you wanted to publish/host a corporate App Store where you published business-specific apps to internal employees (such as a business intelligence tool […]