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Productivity
Personas- Who Are You Building Those Features For?
All people are different. In bazillion ways. Some are young, some – old. Highly educated or just in pre-school. Some like cats, others like dogs. Some have an iPhone, others use an Android phone. When we build software we most often build it for someone else to use. And the people that use that software are different from us. They know different things, they expect different things, and they like different things. So you cannot possibly expect that when you build a feature, everyone will know how or why to use it. If you bet on a wrong design people ...November 12, 2013 4 min read -
Productivity Testing
30 Days of TDD – Day 19 – Refactoring Revisited Pt. 2
In the previous post we started refactoring our code to make sure we were complying with the SRP. Using our tests we are able to optimize our code for readability and maintainability. We’ll continue in the post by examining how the concept of abstractions can inform our refactoring efforts. -
Mobile
Developing for Windows Phone? How about a Hackathon? Or four?
On November 16, Nokia is launching a series of Nokia DVLUP days reaching developers in four different US cities - Boston, Tampa, Sunnyvale, and Vancouver. Learn to make amazing Windows Phone apps and win big prizes just for participating. -
Productivity Testing
Cloudy with a Chance of Testing
Greetings, Testers. Over the past several weeks, we've been talking about four technology trends that have been identified as disruptive, and Peter & I discussed them in our recent webinar. For example, there's the cloud, "a colloquial expression used to describe a variety of different types of computing concepts that involve a large number of computers connected through a real-time communication network such as the Internet." [wikipedia's description] In real terms, for us that means one or more virtual systems that we can use to host our data or applications without adding IT staff or hardware in ...November 08, 2013 2 min read -
Web
Know When To CDN
There’s no doubt that JavaScript, CSS, images and other resources are becoming larger and larger and HUGELY McHUGENATOR sized these days (just take a look at any popular website you visit!). To make matters worse, though, we also have more people accessing these monstrous websites with 50megs of animated jiffs (pronounced “gif”), 10megs of JavaScript and more CSS than an MS-Word document’s “export to HTML”. Things are a bit of a mess, quite frankly. But there’s hope, even with the monstrously sized sites and ever-increasing number of mobile users. Content-Delivery Networks (CDNs), while not a silver bullet by any means, can help you to reduce the amount of time that it takes to deliver your website assets around the world. -
Mobile
What is Cloud Code and Why Should You Care?
An easy-to-use Back-end-as-a-service (BaaS) can make rapidly developing your app not only a possibility, but an enjoyable experience. A good BaaS will work for simple "CRUD-based" (or "forms-over-data") apps as well as more complicated scenarios. The trouble is that when your app outgrows the simpler scenarios, you often need "hooks" on the server side for things like validation, record transformation and more. When you're using Everlive, this is where "Cloud Code" comes in. -
People
Do developers know a hybrid app when they see one?
Do developers know a hybrid app when they see one? It turns out, if the app is written well, they aren’t so sure. Last week we posted a video on YouTube of a fun project we ran. We wanted to see how much perception can play into people’s opinion of an app’s performance We got inspired by Jimmy Kimmel’s “Starbucks taste test” video, and we captured this video with developers taking the same hybrid mobile app for a ride. -
Mobile
Everything Hybrid Web Apps Need to Know About the Status Bar in iOS7
The switch to a translucent status bar has been problematic for hybrid web applications. In this article we'll discuss what the problem is and a few different approaches you can use to fix your apps. -
Productivity
2 Quick Agile Myths- Busted?
Agile Projects don’t use Project Managers It is true Scrum doesn’t discuss Project Managers – it focuses on the Product Owner, Scrum Master, and the Development Team. Scrum is only one implementation of the agile principles (albeit probably the most well-known). Even though Scrum doesn’t call out the role of Project Management in its literature, it never states that you can’t have one. Project Managers typically have different responsibilities, such as budgeting, reporting, and portfolio management. These are all extremely important, especially in larger organizations, and experience project managers excel at these tasks. Project Managers are also a vital link ...November 07, 2013 3 min read
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