Clean dirty data with Data Prep from Versium
Friday, May 26, 2023 by Richard Harris
Research shows that bad data costs U.S. businesses more than $3 trillion per year dragging down the performance of marketing campaigns and ROI. Versium announced the launch of its new Data Prep product, a solution that empowers marketers to quickly fix massive amounts of data at scale so it can be deployed more effectively in all data-driven marketing activiti...
DevSecOps will go mainstream this year
Tuesday, January 26, 2021 by Richard Harris
Cybercriminals love Shadow Code exploits because hacking a commonly used library or service can place the malicious code on hundreds or thousands of websites. For example, the widely used jQuery JavaScript library has been breached multiple times, leading to digital skimming attacks broadly across the e-commerce sector. Adding jQuery to an application without ...
The differences between web apps and native apps
Thursday, October 18, 2018 by Richard Harris
Even in 2018, years past the origional question, the debate rages on across the land, in office spaces and conference rooms every day - should we build a full-blown native mobile app, or is distributing over the web good enough?
By now everyone knows the “mobile-first” mentality because statistics like 50% of web searches being done from a mobile dev...
The bright future of software development
Wednesday, March 28, 2018 by Richard Harris
The now famous 2011 essay from Marc Andreessen titled “Why Software Is Eating The World” has become a bit of a staple when having a conversation about business, and software, and how they work together to solve problems. In a nutshell, Marc points out that software is still in a growth period and infiltrating businesses all across the globe and that it will contin...
How WildTangent is Shaking Up the Android CPI Market
Monday, September 14, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
We recently visited with WildTangent’s Sean Vanderdasson to discuss how the company’s platform helps developers achieve Android app installs.The WildTangent network is facilitated by distribution partnerships with many of the world’s top devices manufacturers (OEMs) and mobile operators. The WildTangent network provides the ability for users to choose in one click which...
Apple Updates Developer Human Interface Guidelines for Apple Watch
Tuesday, May 12, 2015 by Richard Harris
Apple has updated its Human Interface Guidelines for the Apple Watch to help mobile developers better understand the foundations on which Apple Watch itself was designed and best practices for creating Apple Watch apps.These new Human Interface Guidelines provide an overview of the functionality behind gestures, force touch, digital crown, and side button. It also cover...
The Right and Wrong Strategies When Taking Your App Offline
Monday, February 9, 2015 by Martin Heller
Once there was an elevator inspector. Into an elevator shaft he climbed with his tablet, taking pictures and making notes. Twenty minutes later, he climbed down, went into the hall, and his tablet got service. His inspection app immediately tried to synchronize his notes and pictures with his company’s inspection database. After a couple of minutes, he saw an error...
Sending the Baby on the Right Path: Quality Assurance as it Relates to Localization of Apps
Friday, August 22, 2014 by Tobias Scherf
Let's just admit it: at first glance, "quality assurance" doesn’t have a particularly sexy ring. It might even sound dry and tedious and repetitive. But in the localization world, we think QA is anything but dry and tedious. Sure, it might be a wee bit repetitive, but this is the stage when the localized app finally comes to life for us. After all the time spent on...
iOS App Design: Creative Process Structured
Tuesday, July 22, 2014 by Alex Demichev
With the competition on the market of mobile apps being so stiff, and a plethora of functionality ideas used and reused in manifold disguises, app design pretty often turns out to be a crucial selling point, distinguishing a hit app from competing products. This holds particularly true for iOS apps, with Apple priding itself in the consistent design quality of all produ...
Best Practices for Developers and Publishers for Pitching Your App to the Media
Monday, May 19, 2014 by Artyom Dogtiev
When it comes to putting together a marketing plan for a mobile app promotion, a public relations component is always part of the mix. (Or at least it should be!) The most prominent part of public relations is media pitching: An effort to get your mobile app reviewed on relevant blogs and app review sites. Experience shows us that media relations is one of the most misu...
Put a BlackBerry Style Keyboard On An iPhone
Monday, February 17, 2014 by Richard Harris
In case you are a BlackBerry user who never got used to the iPhone keyboard a new snap-over case called the "Typo" might be the answer for you because it has a built in BlackBerry style keyboard (yes, actually keys) built right in!The keyboard-case costs $99.00 and is currently out-of-stock until March because supply just can’t meet demand.Typo works on iPhone 5 and iPh...
Interview: Jack van der Post of iD Gamedesign
Monday, January 13, 2014 by Richard Harris
We recently sat down with Jack van der Post of iD Gamedesign
to talk about his app company and latest app “WordnRoll”
ADM: How long have you been developing apps?
Jack: I started early 2012.
ADM: Do you program the apps or do you hire development
companies?
Jack: I do code and design pretty much everything myself...
Report Shows Apple App Store Still Reigns Supreme in Marketing Opportunities for App Developers
Wednesday, November 20, 2013 by Stuart Parkerson
Which app store should app developers target their marketing efforts? How mature are the three major app stores, and, more importantly, how good could they be? The answers may be gleaned from a recent report from Pfeiffer Consulting, a consulting firm that provides strategic analysis on emerging trends and technologies.
The report analyzes the three major app providers...
monoOne : A New Way of Looking at Your App Code
Thursday, September 26, 2013 by Richard Harris
monoOne is a monospaced font with over 300 characters, including the powerline symbols for programming and code review. "It slowly became a small, personal research-project to find a better programming font, exploring the
typographic needs of code display", says the creator.
The following specifications were used as guidelines in the development of monoOne...
Pontiflex offers $100 free mobile advertising money thanks to the Pope
Saturday, December 8, 2012 by Richard Harris
If you are a religious organization or nonprofit organization with an app in the app store, Pontiflex might have some money to market your app waiting on you. They are giving the money away in appreciation for the accidental surge of religious followers to their Pontiflex twitter feed. In a funny typo, there was a large group of people that thought they were signin...
