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Are You Really Ready To Develop An App?
This keeps happening to me: people find out I’m involved in app development and they immediately start pitching their application ideas to me. In restrooms, at children’s parties, even in line at the...
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Friday Linked List: 11/6/15
Fieldbook Fieldbook is an interesting spreadsheet that adds some features and slick UI to allow you to create simple databases and to interact with your content in new ways. It’s web based right now...
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Cascading to the Bottom: Waterfall vs Agile Software Development
What are you doing? Stop it. Stop hitting yourself. Stop hitting yourself! But seriously, why are you doing that? Waterfall development, defined loosely as frontloading all specifications and...
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Android vs. iOS Dev: Better, Easier, Faster?
Development effort Q&A: native Android versus iOS app Q) What is the relative effort to develop a native app for Android versus iOS? A) It depends on how proficient the developer is and what she’s...
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Four Things To Know Before You Start A Compliance-focused Software Project
Why would a reasonable person undertake one of the most difficult types of software development efforts out there? Very rarely the answer is because it just sounds like a wicked fun thing to do....
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AJAX Upload XHR2 and FileReader, Part 3
So, this week’s stand up meeting is finally concluded. You weren’t really paying attention – blah blah something uploader, the details are in the task, blah blah HTML5. You sit down at your station,...
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Looking Back at 20 Questions for 2015
On January 1 Benedict Evans, an analyst at a16z, posted 20 questions for 2015 and posed a number of interesting questions and predictions for the year. Now that 2015 is drawing to a close I thought it...
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FileReader Chunking and Base64 DataURLs
In a hurry? You can now use our HUp jquery plugin to read files in a chunked fashion as data URLs. Hooray! Got a minute or two? Let’s talk about file read chunking, data URLs and base 64. If you’ve...
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Is Your Company Ready for the Internet of Things?
The Internet of Things. Of Things. When you hear it said or see it written, it might make you wonder what these things are and why they matter. If you aren’t familiar with the idea, it might even make...
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Art & Logic at NAMM 2016
Once again, Art & Logic will have representatives from our engineering and recruiting departments attending the annual Winter NAMM Show in Anaheim, California. NAMM, the National Association of...
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NAMM Wrap-up (part 1)
Thanks to the blizzard that hit my East Coast home base while I was at the NAMM show this past weekend, I’m currently cooling my heels in a Starbucks near family in San Diego while figuring out how to...
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Socks and Sandals (and software-development faux pas)
I’ve worked with a lot of clients and potential clients over the past 10+ years. Sometimes, in conversation about a project, the client will roll out, oh-so-casually, one of about 10 pat statements...
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Smart Toilets and Other Scary Futures: the View from My Office Chair
On a recent Tuesday night tapas meet-up, my friend and I were talking about social media and her use of it. She had been studiously avoiding it in an effort to keep her online profile low. I countered...
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Parse Shutdown: Three Options for Preparing Your Mobile Apps and Services
On January 28th, Facebook announced that it was shutting down Parse, the popular Mobile Backend as a Service (MBaaS), in January 2017, after having purchased it for a reported $85M in 2013. Thousands...
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Everything, Including the Sync!
A couple of years ago, I developed an ‘operational support system’ for anaesthesiologists working in the OR. Other than the main goal of enhancing Patient Safety by helping the docs remember to do all...
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Art & Logic at SXSW Interactive
Art & Logic will have representatives from our engineering, recruiting, and account management groups at the upcoming South by Southwest Interactive Festival from March 11-16th. If you’ll be there...
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See you at SXSW 2016
Alas, our panel proposal didn’t get picked this year but, we’ll still be there checking out the ones that did. We had a great time with the one we presented in 2014. The audio is a bit long but, check...
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How I Saved the Day: an Unsung Superhero on a Sunday Afternoon
Sunday afternoon I saved the day. You may not have read about it in the Seattle Times; it was kind of a subtle thing, but I think it made the world a little brighter. I was in town helping to run a...
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FBI vs. Apple: the Impact on Software Developers and You
At Art & Logic, I wear many hats … a likely consequence of having numerous interests: I am passionate about software and the development process; I am passionate about IT operations; I am...
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Security and the Internet of Things (IoT)
Are you thinking about the Internet of Things (IoT)? Maybe you should be — a whole new class of devices with previously unthought of capabilities is beginning to appear on the market. Corporate...
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