29 Nov 2015 Choosing a mobile platform to target As a mobile developer, I often get questions like "Nice site! When's the mobile app coming?" or "we really need an app for this specific need, which platform should we...
16 Nov 2013 iPad Mini with Retina Display Review For a while at work I was using an iPad Mini (first generation) for development, and I was able to take it home for general use, too. I finally got...
11 Nov 2013 The Best Shortcut You can Create on Your iPhone The best shortcuts are easy to remember, easy to use, and very beneficial. The ratio of effort to benefit approaches zero. The best example? ctrl + c to copy. It's intuitive,...
03 Nov 2013 Putting the "Smart" Back in "Smart Phone" According to Go-Gulf (see the info graphic below), there are 1.08 billion smart phones in the world. This means there's a smart phone for about every 7 people on...
28 Sep 2013 Hesitating Before Buying Apps Lots of people comment about how ridiculous it is that we hesitate before or even completely refuse to spend a few bucks on an app, especially when compared to spending...
04 Jun 2013 Tablets: A Disambiguation (Part 2) Arguably the most important factor for people buying a first tablet is price. A common theme among them is to go for a “budget” tablet. I put budget in quotes...
30 May 2013 Tablets: A Disambiguation (Part 1) In the first quarter of this year, 2013, Apple shipped 19.5 million iPads1. Samsung shipped 8.8 million, Asus 2.7 million, and Microsoft 0.9 million. With others,...
27 Mar 2013 Asynchronous Data Calls in Windows Store Apps Below is the way that I’ve written my (MVVM, C#, XAML) Windows store app to make asynchronous data calls. This is necessary so that the UI doesn’t lock...
07 Feb 2013 Authenticating an HTTP Request with Client Certificates in iOS I'm writing an app that uses a client-certificate to authenticate while performing a SOAP request. Unfortunately, I'm writing this app in PhoneGap, and the iOS WebView does not support Client...
15 Jan 2013 Creating an Enterprise App Catalog Motive One of the challenges faced with developing in-house (or “enterprise”) mobile applications is deployment. For public applications, deployment is handled almost exclusively through platform app stores, like the iOS...
21 Sep 2012 PhoneGap in iOS 6 Update 9/27: This post relates to PhoneGap 2.0. 2.1 appears to have fixed a number of iOS 6 compatibility issues, and I recommend upgrading. Today I upgraded...
26 Aug 2012 Hardware vs Software Smartphone Keyboards My dad is a big proponent of hardware keyboards on smartphones. Partly because of this, he’s a big fan of BlackBerries BlackBerrys BlackBerry® smartphones. We’ve talked about it...
