(Cross posted from my personal blog) It has been quite a bit of work and a learning experience, but today my course on iOS development for .NET developers course was published on Pluralsight! This course was designed to help someone that is familiar with .NET get up to speed and start building an iOS application […]
Read MoreI always find it rather interesting when academics try to quantify generalized metrics about software development. Things like: per lines of code, there will be X number of bugs. Statements like: it has been empirically proven that “blah” affects the development of software in some way “blah.” These are all interesting thoughts, but software development […]
Read More(Cross post with my personal blog) Earlier this year I announced the release of an app I had been working on for Android called PaceMaker. Finally, I have succeeded in porting the application over to iPhone and it was definitely much harder than I had anticipated. But I am glad to announce that as of […]
Read MoreI have to admit, I love rules. They go against my nature to the core, but they are some of the most valuable institutions I put into my life, both personally and professionally. Rules are all around us. We follow so many of them each day and don?t even recognize how valuable they are, because […]
Read More(Cross post with my personal blog) I?ve been working on a secret side project. You can find it on your android market by searching for ?PaceMaker? or using this AppBrain link. Or if you are reading this on your phone, try this link. If you have seen a few of my posts on Android development, […]
Read MoreDo you ever get the feeling that you just want to get a cabin in the woods and never see a computer again? Do you ever feel like someone stole your motivation and sapped your energy like a mosquito in a bug zapper? I used to think it just happened to me. The first time […]
Read MoreThere was a time when you wrote a web site and you targeted IE6. That time has long passed. When you really only had to target IE6, you could pretend the web was platform independent. The truth is now the web is neither, nor will ever be platform independent. It?s just an illusion based on […]
Read MoreI?ve talked a few times about how the best code you can write is code you never write. One of the major places I end up seeing developer writing code that they don?t need to write is when parsing XML. A word of caution before I go into how to not have to parse XML! […]
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