Development - Hodgeblot

Daring Fireball: Apple Music and Coherent Product Design and Marketing

Daring Fireball: Apple Music and Coherent Product Design and MarketingSo agree with this quote. Rings true for me with current product I'm working on at work: If the product isn't logical and consistent throughout, how can it be marketed in a logical and consistent way?

Technology

Jammies all day. Too much coffee, and work that never ends fill today's video blog.

Technology

The Secret Startup That Saved the Worst Website in America - The Atlantic

The Secret Startup That Saved the Worst Website in America - The AtlanticA truly great read on the nerds who saved healthcare.gov. It’s written for a non-technical audience, but the info here is fascinating.

Software

Developers Need To Broaden Their Range

Developers Need To Broaden Their RangeBy Mike Loukides Since Facebook's Carlos Bueno wrote the canonical article about the full stack, there has been no shortage of posts trying to define it. For a time, Facebook allegedly only hired "full-stack developers." That probably wasn't quite true, even if they

Gaming

Is the games industry broken by design?

Is the games industry broken by design?In this editorial, Cosmic discusses why there are so many lay offs and closures in the games industry and what he thinks needs to change A nice look at the business of making games. All said could be applied to any software development

Mobile

My thoughts on Facebook's Paper App

There’s a lot being said about this app all across the web. My take on it after having used it for a bit – it’s not as bad as some are saying. I do, however, agree with Mark (our CEO at Storybird): The problem with Paper

Development

Git Is Giving Subversion A Run For Its Money: What Took So Long?

Git Is Giving Subversion A Run For Its Money: What Took So Long?It has taken a long time for Git to push Subversion aside, despite clearly being better for developers. It’s amazing to me how many people who use Git still don’t grok the difference

Software

GitHub's Future: No CS Degree Required - ReadWrite

GitHub's Future: No CS Degree Required – ReadWriteGitHub has acquired Easel--a clear signal the company plans to expand its focus on education.

Mobile

Web Performance Is User Experience

Web Performance Is User Experience Fast page load time builds trust in your site; it yields more returning visitors, more users choosing your site over a competitor's site, and more people trusting your brand.

Mobile

Fewer than 0.01 percent of mobile apps will be financially successful by 2018, predicts Gartner

Fewer than 0.01 percent of mobile apps will be financially successful by 2018, predicts GartnerThis seems expected, and not disturbing at all to me. 1.) Apps can be useful to a company or developers without making money (from generating buzz to more) and 2) free with in-app purchases is

Life

Forget Setting Goals. Focus on This Instead.

Forget Setting Goals. Focus on This Instead.When it comes to getting things done and making progress in the areas that are important to you, there is a much better way to do things. I do agree that the system or process is the most important bit – t’

Software

Settling on a development process

We’ve been chatting about dev process at work, and I’ve come to realize most people settle on a dev process all wrong. People either pick one from some agile religion they’ve bought into – “scrum is what everyone is using” or “

Mobile

Android Support vs iOS Support

Android Support vs iOS SupportiOS wins developers for lots of reasons, but this is a significant one.

Software

Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me When I Was Learning How to Code

Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me When I Was Learning How to CodeGreat truth in this: “think about what you want to code.”

Technology

Automattic: No Email, No Office Workers - Business Insider

Automattic: No Email, No Office Workers - Business InsiderMore and more companies will be built fully distributed this way. Great ideas here for companies with all remote workers.

Tech

Don't Blame the Tool

Don’t Blame the ToolA/B testing is not a panacea, but it is fantastic at what it's supposed to do.

Work

Don't Be a (Work) Hero

Don't Be a (Work) HeroI love this statement: […] I value the process of what we're doing as a company higher than the perceived short term gains of productivity of any one individual. The work hero reminds of the hero coder. Lots of tech companies want to hire the hero

Development

How Facebook Blew Its Chance To Become A Real Development Platform

How Facebook Blew Its Chance To Become A Real Development PlatformI think I have particular insight on this, having been in on the Facebook Platform from the beginning. While the article was spot on in terms of missteps from Facebook, I felt from the beginning that the platform was being

Software

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