July 23, 2015
Quality Booster: Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery
Let’s start with an assertion that needs no proof: everybody likes to see progress in what they are doing. After a hard day on a construction site a carpenter can see results of his work, an artist can see her sculpture taking shape through her efforts, a teacher can sense his students making progress. Any of these can present the results of…
July 9, 2015
Rush Hour in Vietnam: Teaching Us About Business
First time visitors to Vietnam universally take notice of the heavy rush hour traffic in Ho Chi Minh City and other big cities across the country. The mass of cars, taxis and scooters looks like a crazy mess, especially for those of us accustomed to driving in western countries. Lane markers are suggestions only. Traditional right of way rules for…
June 4, 2015
Creating Value
Until they were acquired by Facebook last year, I was a big fan of the Canadian digital agency Teehan-Lax. Of course their design work drew me, as did their famous (and famously free) iOS and Android PSD files, but what really kept me coming back to their site was how Jon Lax, one of Teehan-Lax’s founders, wrote about…
May 12, 2015
HTML5 for Mobile – Will One WebView Ever Rule Them All?
HTML5 is no longer a new technology. But despite having been around a few years, its potential has never been fully realized, especially on mobile platforms. Since its introduction something has always been missing, preventing HTML5 from ever being fully embraced as a serious platform for mobile app development. First it was the lack of implemented standards – I remember checking…
March 4, 2015
Business Continuity Planning: Turning Crisis into Opportunity
For the past three years, we’ve been operating our premier development center in Kharkiv, Ukraine. With world class universities and abundant talent, Kharkiv has a vibrant technical community of young coders, developers and system architects, talent that attracted us to Ukraine in the first place. Over the past year however, Ukraine has unfortunately experienced war…
