Think about 3 things before you hire a mobile app developer
If you’re just now thinking about building a product or knee-deep into a product already, there will be a point in time where finding another developer to help you will become immensely important. I’ve been on both sides of the table and it still is the trickiest thing to get right. Which brings us to…
Daniel James on Simplicity, Prototyping, and Community
Today’s interview is with Daniel James. Daniel is a founder and mobile developer who got his start building products during his senior year at Kansas State University. The product he built his senior year went on to become a direct competitor with a product that I ended up building a few years later. Shockingly, neither…
Is it a passion project or a financial project?
Are you working on a project right now or thinking about what you’re going to build next? Before you get too deep into either path, ask yourself a simple question. “Am I building a passion project or am I building a project that’ll help support my family?” These are two very, very different things. When…
A smooth introduction to UIVisualEffectView
We’re going to be exploring an example for a common user interface trait of iOS applications these days–blurred views with UIVisualEffectView. This technical overview is actually going to end up being light on code given that Apple has made this much easier to implement in iOS 7, but it’s still an extremely valuable tool to…
Avoid this common mistake, at all cost, when developing an app
The following question is one that I see far too often when I see folks developing an app. It’s even something I have experienced before. It is often a fatal mistake that folks experience when developing an app because they are not thinking about the business side of the process. They may not have a…
Welcome! A Quick Hello.
Thanks for dropping by! You’ve likely stumbled upon this little dojo of mine because you’re building a mobile product. I want to take a couple of minutes to introduce you to what I’ve got going on here and a little about who I am. Yesterday It feels like it was just yesterday. Apple revealed the…