I believe these issues are easily addressed, however they sure demonstrate how usability/experience is affected when a few pieces of key information is missing.
Category Archives: Discussions
Will Hybrid Mobile Apps Prevail Over Native?
I’ve been wrestling with this question for some time, and I thought this post may help sort out my thoughts and opinions while giving you some important insight. Are hybrid mobile apps going to become the developer’s choice anytime soon? The debate can be pretty heated as companies choose one technology over the other. Hybrid, …
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Trends and Trajectory
As 2009 comes to a close I’m sitting in a nice, comfy coffee shop, working on some code for an iPhone app I wanted to release a couple weeks ago. I’m not going to be hard on myself. The Holiday season came upon us and there became more important things like family, friends, and feasts. …
Case in Point: Orbital iPhone App
Check out this article in TUAW about how an iPhone app, Orbital, isn’t really making it for the developer after less than (nearly?) 100,000 units sold. The article suggests it’s just a case of bad luck. True? I’m not so sure. Here’s why. Saturation It seems to me that the App Store is pretty saturated. …
Take a Moment and Take a Survey
Take a moment to take this survey at A List Apart. As a web professional, it’s a worthy cause.
N00bs are OK Too
Here’s a little commentary over at CakeBaker on people apologizing for being a newbie. On mailing lists or in private mails I sometimes read statements like “I am sorry, but I am a newbie” or “Sorry for this newbie question”. And I always wonder why do those people apologize for not being proficient? I think …
CakePHP Access Control Alphabet Soup
Reading through a few of my most recent posts, you’ll quickly learn that I’m learning CakePHP as my PHP framework of choice. So far, so good. Actually, it’s pretty good, but that is not without some questions I’ve had along the way. I’m probably getting stuck more than I should on best practice coding, but …
Framework Mania: CakePHP
It has been an interesting month – at the same time I’m picking up CakePHP, I have a client project that uses the Zend Framework. Right out of the gates I like CakePHP better. ZF doesn’t seem quite as cohesive as Cake, so getting it set-up has been more challenging. Granted, the client’s setup is …
Cool Download Page
I’m looking into new JS frameworks for frontend enhancements, and came across MooTools on recommendation from a friend. The framework has lots of cool features and seems pretty simple, but one thing I’m most impressed with is the download page. It acts just like the *nix package managers – allowing to you pick and choose …
Award Winning : Davey Awards
I just received word that one of my projects just won a Davey Award for online marketing and email campaigns: Munchkin’s Project Pink: Email a Duck, Raise a Buck! Harley Bergsma at the UXB and I devised this brainchild together. From there he took care of project management and I took care of developing the …