The interest in mobile application development is continually growing. Even developers who are least open to change are starting to come around to the idea of developing on a mobile platform. Choosing between the two most popular platforms, Android and iOS, isn’t as simple as it may seem on the surface. Developers need to know what… Read More »
I’ve recently started my first Android project (yay!) and after coming from iOS I know how important using system standard functionality and design is. Users expect your app to work in a certain way and not all iOS stuff will translate directly to Android design and visa-versa. I learned a lot about what users expect… Read More »
My free online dating site launch in May of 2009 after a little under 2 years of work. Now I just need to get people to come to or write about the site and the real work has begun. I post it up to all the social networks at the time telling people to come… Read More »
Wrigley’s Magic Weight Ball is my first project using the Raphaël JavaScript Library and it just went live. I used Raphaël JS version 1.5.2 which you can download from GitHub. The project requirements came through as only being an iPad version that responded to a shake event. Getting to use a new technology for a… Read More »
I registered the domain for my free online dating service, DiveIntoThePool.com, in October of 2007. I decided that along with making my first real startup that I would invest money in that it would be a good idea to do in a language I didn’t already know (ASP.NET), with a database I wasn’t familiar with… Read More »
My first game, Three or More: Monster Match, was approved for sale on the App Store last night! It’s been a fun time since I started learning Objective-C in August to sending off my game for approval on October 5th. At one point I even considered stopping development and shifting gears into a more familiar… Read More »
UPDATE: It’s been over a year since I considered stopping my study of Objective-C and I can gladly say that I made the right choice in continuing to learn Objective-C and native app development. With Adobe’s recent moves discontinuing Mobile and TV Flash development and moving the Flex SDK to ‘an established open source foundation’… Read More »
With the Windows Phone 7 developer tools being finalized September 16th and the marketplace accepting submissions in October I started, a little late in the game perhaps, to wonder how likely Windows Phone 7 users will be to buy apps. The iPhone and Android users buying apps have been discussed at length by cnet, NYTimes, mashable… Read More »
Sensationalist enough? Maybe, it’s the polar opposite of the post I read today. I finished reading Hey, Guys, It’s Totally Okay If You Don’t Get Rich earlier today and I don’t think the guys and girls that are trying to get rich, make a successful business or make a difference in the world need to… Read More »
I found a fix for a single case of “Flash cannot parse this document” error when opening a file saved from Adobe Flash CS5. Here is how it happened. A designer friend of mine upgraded to CS5 recently and sent me an email in a panic when she got this error “Flash cannot parse this… Read More »