iBeacons In Real Life

The State of iBeacons (June 2015) This is pretty consistent with my experiences. On observation I’d add  about squirrely RSSI values – readings walk around a bit. You’ll do better to calculate a moving average and toss out the occasional 0 reading. Also be mindful of your iBeacon’s power settings – you may need to …

The Case for Slow Programming

A thought-provoking post by Jeffrey Ventrella. I’ve seen both sides. Surely there’s little to be gained by maintaining breakneck development speeds – when the goal is more features as fast as you can. It might look good to business, but there’s a chance it comes back to bite you. I can appreciate taking the time to …

7 Rules for Creating Gorgeous UI

7 Rules for Creating Gorgeous UI (Part 1) In the end, I learned the aesthetics of apps the same way I’ve learned any creative endeavor: cold, hard analysis. And shameless copying of what works. I’m enamored with well-designed objects, software, though I’m not a designer. I appreciate posts like this one because it scratches that inner itch …

iPhone 6 Screen Resolution, Points, and Pixels Explained

iPhone 6 Screens Demystified on PaintCode There were a lot of questions surrounding the rumored iPhone 6 display resolution. A few had well-reasoned extrapolations based on conjecture, but ultimately we had no idea. Now that the hardware is public and our iOS 8 SDKs are gold master, we finally have the numbers. And…. they’re not what …

The Human Connection

From Brent Simmons’ post: Why I Love Indies and You Do Too: I’ve noticed something obvious about popular music — it’s almost never instrumental. There’s always a human voice singing a melody. We humans love human voices. That’s what we get from indies that we don’t get from corporations. We get that human voice and the emotional …

Samsung co-CEO: We want Tizen to be on everything | Mobile – CNET News

Samsung co-CEO: We want Tizen to be on everything | Mobile – CNET News. No surprise. Samsung, with the lion’s share of Android marketshare, is positioning itself to usurp power and control from Google. Considering their ambitions, this is their only hope.

Apples Answer on Upgrade Pricing

From David Smith Logic Pro X is a Major with a capital M update to their professional audio editing suite. It appears to represent a significant investment in both time and resources. So how is it being sold, especially to people who already paid $200 for the previous version Logic Pro 9? It is a …

Samsung Dangling the Carrot for Tizen Devs

Samsung offers $4 million bounty to populate Tizen app store. So, Samsung is offering $4M to developers to write apps for the Tizen platform. The kicker – Tizen isn’t Android. It’s a linux-based mobile OS that focuses on hybrid web technologies, much like WebOS. Let’s put the news into some perspective: Samsung is undisputedly the …

MapBox Visualizes 3 Billion Tweets

Visualizing 3 Billion Tweets  The patterns of usage in each city often reflect economic stratification. For example iPhones, in red, are predominantly in wealthy sections of the city while Android phones, in green, have more coverage in poorer sections. On a global level, national trends reveal a complicated set of cultural preferences. I wouldn’t say …

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