So it’s been a while since my last post…2 years is kinda unacceptable really. A lot has happened since then. I have shifted much of my focus to IoT projects and app development. Recently, my good friend Walt Quesada turned me on to Amazon Echo development using the Alexa Skills Kit. Walt is putting together an amazing […]
New Pluralsight Course Up
If you love Xamarin iOS and iBeacons (and who doesn’t), check out my new course on Pluralsight
Xamarin.iOS – Let Your ViewController Know the App is Coming to Foreground
Quick tip to share. Found it on the developers lifeline (aka Stackoverflow). If you ever wanted to alert your Viewcontrolller that your app is back in the foreground (from being in the background), simple add an Observer. Just create your custom method to handle the “notification” and whenever your app is brought to the foreground, NSNotificationCenter […]
6 Things To Know About Beacons
Beacons are a pretty hot topic these days. They offer exciting new ways of presenting proximity-based content to an ever-growing mobile user base. I have been working with multiple brands of beacons over the past 8 months and thought I would share some of my observations. iBeacon is trademarked term, not a device (not yet, at least). […]
Don’t Forget to Dream
“Lisa, I know you love Art, but you will never be able to make a living with an Art Degree. Find a more marketable degree …you can always Paint or Draw or Sculpt on the side” “Music!? Do you know how many bands or artists there are struggling to be famous and never […]
Do You Have A Weakness?
During a job interview, we have all been asked: “What would you say is your biggest weakness and conversely, what is your biggest strength?” I have been giving these questions a lot of thought lately. Specifically, the weakness question. I firmly believe people can be too hard on themselves. I have worked with many team […]
It’s Time To Change The Way We Interview Developers
Recently, a good friend and fellow developer lost his consulting gig. Normally this wouldn’t be cause for alarm or even interesting to read about. It’s the nature of being a “hired gun”. You work on an engagement for a specified period and then move on. But the events that occurred after his contract ended, made […]
What’s in a Name?
We recently changed our company name from Bayside Technology, LLC to Braneworks, LLC. The reasons are too many to get into, but the process for picking a name was not easy nor was it quick. Apparently, every reasonable name (or jiberish you can invent) was already taken. At one point, we thought of calling […]
So You Want A Software Development Process?
This post was fairly popular when it was originally posted but somehow got lost. We are reposting it mainly because it’s still very relevant. As we grow and mature as an organization, our processes evolve. While we stay true to our core belief that a process should be simple, flexible, repeatable, and effective, we are […]