I'm a user focused mobile developer, here is where I publish advice and thoughts on building great mobile apps
I wrote a article a few years back on setting up virtual hosts on OS X so you can have lots of urls pointing to different folders on your mac, for testing websites. A good practice I have found is to run this folder out of Dropbox, so even if you haven’t committed changes to…
I had some issues installing OCMock on Xcode 4, and found the method to be documented differently in a number of places. Fortunately I’ve worked out how to do it and it can be applied to any static framework, so I’m sharing it here, using OCMock as an example. Download the framework and locate the…
I’ve been talking to people about native vs web for years, and don’t fall down on one single answer. I thought it was time to get these thoughts down on paper. I’ve framed the discussion around a series of questions you might ask about an app you are developing. Are you designing an app which…
Last Friday I attended Full Frontal 2011, which turned out to be the best conference I’ve attended so far. Some rights reserved by Remy Sharp For the first time in 5 years of conference going I had no complaints whatsoever. I am often irritated by excessive promotion of products by sponsors, talks which are really little more…
I’ve spent the last 6 months leading the team who worked with Tesco on the development of the Tesco Food app in the Chrome Web Store. If there is time I hope to give a quick 5 min talk at Brighton’s Async group for the International Show and Tell this week, these are the notes…
The developers manifesto I’ve created here are a set of coding guidelines that me and the development team I work with believe will lead to high quality, easily readable code. Code written not for you to read, but for someone else to read. It is the result of several weeks of meetings, reading a number…
The mobile context is being discussed a great deal at the moment in regards to mobile web. What does it mean? How can we use it? How can we make assumptions about the context a user is in, based on their device? To give a few examples of assumed mobile contexts, and ways sites might…
Something a little different today. I wanted to let you know about a new blog I’ve started, The Oscars Project, where I’m watching and reviewing all the best picture winners. For a while now I’ve decided I haven’t seen enough older films from the last 100 years, and so to give my plan to see…
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Its that time of year where I like to look back and summarise what I’ve done, ready for the new years plans. So in 2010… I lead development for Ribot on the Tesco Grocery App for Nokia which allows customers to shop from their phones, released back in the summer. I had 2 articles published…
