Posts Tagged ‘programming’

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 […]

Hello eager reader! So you want to delve deeper into mobile web application development? Or maybe you are just bored and don’t have any billable work to be doing (you DON’T have any billable work to be doing, right?). In any case, I am here to help. Disclaimer: This blog post is going to include […]

Agile development methodologies have a number of important tenets, but one of them is a short time to market. An agile team decides the first core functionality, builds it and gets feedback on it. It’s like picking out the corner pieces of a puzzle to start. Then each iteration adds a few pieces to the […]

As individuals, we like to be reassured that we’re making the right decision. Most of the time we don’t need the exact plan, but some relevant information. Seth Godin points out that, in many instances, we over-rely on the exact road map when in fact there is likely a problem and solution that is close enough: The […]

To be frank, your developers aren’t following your brand standards and style guides for the same reason I eat healthier when the apples are pre-sliced in the fridge… Busy days, tight deadlines… a quick look at what needs to get done and off we go ticking away at our tasks with the little time we […]

Being on the bench gives a man more time to do what he truly enjoys: mindlessly playing around with new technologies, APIs and generally making a lot of cool stuff that doesn’t really do anything. Enter…the gyroscope! What is a gyroscope? No, it is not a telescope that automatically zooms in on the nearest Greek […]

I saw an interesting video today about attention to detail and quality control. In the video, David Lee Roth describes a tactic that the band Van Halen used to test for attention to detail and be warned of possible red flags in the preparation of large shows. In the video Roth explains that they used […]

It is an 8 KB substitute for jQuery. That should answer both of those questions. In the world of Javascript libraries there are a plethora of options, but no one knows what any of them are; we all just use jQuery. jQuery is powerful, it caters to all browsers, and above all it works. However, […]

Web developers are familiar with the importance of Cascading Style Sheets when developing HTML5 apps. The basic premise is simple, standard look and feel of the elements can be described separately in a CSS definition file and without changing a lot of other code, or simply by applying a different CSS file, you can alter […]

At the recently concluded, Lean Startup Conference 2012, there was a interesting talk given by Matt Brezina of Sincerely regarding how they approach rapid mobile app development using Lean principles. This talk got me to thinking on how possibly similar principles might apply in an enterprise mobile app development world. Figure out the Minimum Viable […]

Sure to spark some interest at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) being held next week in Las Vegas, a new smartphone OS has been announced. Ubuntu is no newcomer to the OS space, having released the first desktop version of Ubuntu, which is based on Linux, in 2004 which now has more than 20,000,000 […]

Who among us hasn’t at some point in their life thought, “Golly, I wish there were a way I could create triangles with CSS!” Okay, I realize no one has ever actually said that, but while at first glance the topic of creating a triangle using code available to a front-end developer might seem trivial […]