Archive for the ‘Application Development’ Category

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Think Hard About App Updates

The first thing you do when building an application is decide what it’s supposed to do, you don’t build a pretty interface then figure out what functions can fit inside that pretty interface. Once you’ve established what your application does it’s time to stick to your guns religiously. The Codebox Story Quite a while ago [...]

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Twitter, Jumping the Shark?

With Twitter’s recent announcement that they don’t want you building new 3rd party Twitter clients nerds everywhere are calling foul. This drastic departure from their previously open stance has caught a few off guard while others think it was an inevitable step in the evolution of Twitter in to a profitable company. While I’m not [...]

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Partial Implementations

Today I’m going to pick on Echofon simply because it’s the example that I use (and am annoyed by) every day. I love Echofon, the combination of it’s simple interface, keyboard support and useful features make it my go to Twitter client, and that’s doesn’t appear to be changing any time soon. My issue with [...]

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Where Applications Break Smooth Workflow

This blog is to talk about the tools you use and why you use them, it also stands to reason that we should talk about the things in our lives and workflow that are painful and we haven’t found any solution for. With the rage being in web apps vs. desktop apps now I think [...]