Intermission I haven’t posted in a while. It’s interesting how these things happen. Years ago, I used to be able to whip out a post of some kind in any of the blogs I maintained easily. The reasons for the lack of that now are multiple. The usual “I’m busy” applies, but it’s more than […]
Continue reading →The more I think about it, the more I’m coming to the conclusion that fitness assistance for running and biking will be one of the killer apps for AR in the near future. It’s hard for anyone who doesn’t run or bike semi-seriously to understand how disruptive this can be. It wasn’t for me until […]
Continue reading →I often like to think about technology projects from the perspective of their problem surfaces. Assume every project has a surface: everything that it depends on. These can be diverse. They can be the development tools used to implement the project, libraries used inside the finished product, or online services it uses (including during development, […]
Continue reading →In light of the upcoming Flash end-of-life date of December 31, 2020, It seems lots of people are having a #RIPFlash moment (specially on Twitter) so I suppose I’d say something. It is dead as a technology, but Flash was still where I broke into more creative, innovative UI development – with Grafikonstruct, Gringo.nu, and […]
Continue reading →When developing a mobile app, it’s easy to focus on what’s visible – the general design identity, the user onboarding process, the backend, even marketing. However, one thing I learned over the years is that some of the best features you can have in an application are invisible, and as such, seldom discussed. It’s not […]
Continue reading →As must be more or less clear from the new link in this website’s navigation, I have a new portfolio site online. Some may question the need for a programmer to have a portfolio. Well, to me, my work has always been very visual. In many of the projects I’ve been involved, I had a […]
Continue reading →Bundling, as it relates to web applications, is the packaging together of resources needed to serve a website. It’s sometimes often referenced as compiling a site, although this definition is not entirely suitable. Bundling is somewhat of a strange requirement in web projects. In theory, you don’t need to compile, transpile, convert, or optimize anything to create […]
Continue reading →The idea of strongly typing data in JavaScript is becoming a hotly debated subject. Supporters of the current status-quo, where JavaScript does not enforce types of any kind, have long sustained the notion that the dynamism of the language is one of its strong features; that you need to be able to assign any value […]
Continue reading →Programming is a journey of continuous learning. There is an immense collection of programming paradigms to be learned, many of which require a good amount of experience before they start making sense. Still, one of the biggest lessons I’ve learned over time about my trade is not exactly on how to write code. It’s identifying […]
Continue reading →Math has never been my strong suit. At school, it was always the subject I’d get my worst grades. I didn’t attend college for Mathematics or computer sciences either. Overall it has always been a subject I had difficulty with, and it was only when I actually started working as a programmer – most especially, […]
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