Hybrid Today, Progressive Web App Tomorrow
App (and I am using that term very loosely here) development has undergone a change. Most companies are eschewing high cost native development and for iOS and Android and going with hybrid solutions using tools like Xamarin or Ionic. This is a great way for...
Why I’m Selling My MacBook Pro – Focus
In a word - "focus." There are a lot of cool technologies available to developers to today and the truth is that, I've been spending a lot of time chasing a lot of different albeit very interesting technologies and trying to figure out what makes sense for myself and...
Mac Exodus Over?
Many commentators myself included have been making some hay out of the trend of developers and other pros moving away from Apple’s macOS in favor of various (usually Ubuntu) distributions of Linux. Vendors like Dell and System76 have seen gains in the professional...
MacBook Pro 2016 Review
It’s a tool that does a job, nothing more, nothing less.
How I Missed Web Assembly
As pointed out by an intrepid Coder Radio listener, I totally missed the importance of Web Assembly when it was in its initial nascent phases a year or so go. Now that Web Assembly is going to become a standard endorsed by the W3C and has backing from at least two...
A Farewell to ‘App Developers’
I have had the great privilege of really coming to age at just the right time to be able to get into the ground floor of the mobile app development wave starting in 2008. In fact, to my knowledge, I opened one of the first three purely mobile app development firms in...