Cross-platform mobile web development is heating up and the the performance level is continuing to increase as new an more powerful devices are released. One of the allures to this style of mobile development is the single code base you can use across multiple platforms. With wrappers like Cordova and modern web frameworks you can get… Read More »
This summer I had been having fun working on a Windows 8 RT C# application. I decided to take the momentum of learning a new language and platform and apply that to getting certified. To earn a Microsoft Certified Solutions Develop for Windows Store Apps Using C# you need to pass three tests of increasing specialization,… Read More »
Heading toward the app submission finish line with our new Windows 8 Store App I was wrapping up the remaining functional bugs and we had a moment to breath. Of course with that extra time I started to poke around at performance and asked about our expected usage. They didn’t have an idea so we… Read More »
My major project of 2012, TheKnot.com Search BETA, launched earlier this month, the morning of December 14th, and it was a journey worth documenting. It began back in May when the company decided to start our own labs or internal incubator groups. One began right away in New York City and the other started a… Read More »
Update: Ric Santos pointed out in the comments that the iOS 8 share sheet includes Pinterest I’ve been working on a new version of the iOS app, Wedding Dress Look Book by The Knot, and I wanted to add in sharing features for the most popular networks. This a wedding dress browsing and sharing app, it… Read More »
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 »
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 »
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 »