Xamarin Review
Recently, we at Fingertip Tech, INC have been doing a lot of work in Xamarin and Xamarin.Forms. All in all, things have been going fairly well and the tooling seems to get better everyday! Still, nothing is perfect and at the end of the day working with the Xamarin...
Going Mobile: Overcast
This is the second entry into Going Mobile, my series of reviews on mobile software. Frequent readers of this blog will notice that this series used to only focus on productivity software but is now expanding to the wider app ecosystem. I’m still taking a special...
Slacking Off
At Fingertip Tech, INC HQ collaboration is key, so we’ve been searching for tools to help us better work together as a team. We’ve worked with a few tools over the years but none has fit our work model as well as Slack. Slack is very similar to HipChat, the tool it is...
A Swift Softening
Listeners to last week’s Coder Radio know that during the live feed WWDC coverage, I was less than enthused with the announcement of Swift, Apple’s new programming language for iOS and OS X. My initial reaction was based on the somewhat unclear way they announced...
WWDC 2014 Predictions
Well, it is that time of year again – when the tech space goes crazy with Apple fever and starts to have dancing iTVs and iWatches in their heads. From the Apple developer perspective, this is (like the WWDC of 2012) being preceded by increasing frustrations from the...
Coder Radio 100% Employment
Every week Chris Fisher and I hear from energetic developers and the like who are looking to break into the field but are just having a hard time getting that first gig. Well, Coder Radio’s sponsor Digital Ocean is hiring as is my own company Fingertip Tech, INC. Both...