How to Make the Best of Website Development Trends, Circa 2014
More and more websites are made by assembling back-end libraries and front-end components provided by third parties, rather than built in house. Web developers typically spend less time coding than...
View ArticleWhy Media Companies Should Pay Attention to Software Development/Operations...
Many if not most media companies invest relatively little in software development. But those that do have been grabbing the attention of an increasing number of readers, subscribers, advertisers, and...
View ArticleWebsite Hosting Tech: What to Choose and Why?
If your head is spinning from the deluge of tech product announcements that make you feel like you’re always trying to catch up, no matter how close you stick to technology developments – breathe...
View ArticleWhere to Register Domain Names, Host DNS, Email
After my previous post on hosting, here are some quick notes on some other essential bits of online technology and favored/hated vendors, from the perspective of a small business looking for solid but...
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Insta Case Study: Feature Update Notifications Down Right
Kudos to Intercom for the very smart way they integrate their change notifications to the application itself. First, they use the increasingly popular “counter over an icon” notification that is not...
View Article2015: Watch the Mediterranean & Beyond
Italians have become very concerned [Corriere della Sera] about ISIS’ recent inroads into Libya, adding a new twist to a humanitarian crisis that has been going on for years [The Migrants Files]....
View ArticleSaas Integration Trends & Players
By definition Software as a Service is easier to roll out than on-premises software because you don’t have to install it on your own servers, let alone desktops or mobile devices. This favors a...
View ArticleHow I Save Time with the Right Shortcuts, Handpicked Apps, and Finetuned...
Over many years I’ve found a lot of good hardware and neat apps that work well together. In the spirit of the setup and how I work interviews, here’s my advice on picking desktop hardware, some of my...
View ArticleOpen Source Project Watch: Brackets… by Adobe?!
A year ago I wrote about how the involvement of various media companies in open source software was worth paying attention to. It still is, but it is equally interesting to see commercial vendors back...
View ArticleA Fair Chat on Web vs. Native Development
Here’s a good discussion hosted by Google Developers about the pros and cons of developing for web browsers vs. creating (mobile) native apps: Philosophically I heavily favor open platforms to avoid...
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