- Entries
- 8
- Span
- 2011–15
- 2015May 06
Hybrid Mobile Software Development Is Dead to Me
After years of building iOS and Android apps with Phonegap, Appcelerator, and Ionic, four big shifts — Swift, a better Xcode, Android's economics, and the Apple Watch — pushed me to go fully native.
May 6, 2015 / 3 min3 min - 2013Jun 12
AngularJs: Why I Never Should Have Hired Myself
How building a custom JavaScript framework instead of adopting AngularJS taught a hard lesson about the importance of staying engaged with the developer community.
Jun 12, 2013 / 3 min - 2013Jun 04
Being Bleeding Edge Is a Good Thing
Why staying on the bleeding edge of technology — using novel but tested libraries and design patterns — is a strategic necessity, not a luxury, for software companies.
Jun 4, 2013 / 1 min - 2013Jan 16
Laravel / Composer : Skate To Where The Puck Is Going To Be
Why Cloudmanic moved from CodeIgniter to Laravel and Composer — skating to where PHP development is heading, not where it has been.
Jan 16, 2013 / 2 min2 min - 2012Oct 18
Open Source Doobs Drive Me Nuts
A candid take on open source zealots who use free software without giving back — and why quality should always win over ideological purity.
Oct 18, 2012 / 4 min4 min - 2012Oct 04
Is The Code Good?
How do you know if a developer has written good code? Explore practical metrics like bug turnaround time and commit frequency to measure code quality.
Oct 4, 2012 / 3 min3 min - 2012Jun 18
Coding Should Be Like Writing A Book
Why code should read like a book — with descriptive function names, clear variables, and visual symmetry — so any developer can skim it and understand what's happening.
Jun 18, 2012 / 2 min2 min - 2011May 16
Cover Your Ass Software Development
Why the CYA process — scoping, wireframing, and designing before writing a line of code — is just as critical for your own product as it is for client work, and how it leads to polished first releases.
May 16, 2011 / 4 min
