Software engineering blog for mobile and web
Our Android app has a new feature using the camera to take photos. We can split the feature into two tasks, taking a photo and reviewing a photo by pan-and-zoom.
To take a photo, we found two methods.
We are building an Android app and want to render charts. Charts are diagrammatic representations of numeric data, which include bar and pie charts. We found two methods for rendering charts:
While attending web meetups over the past several months, I identified several approaches for building single-page web apps. Single-page web apps are websites that load dynamic content without refreshing
Tom Dale, an Ember core developer, gave a talk on modern web applications this September 20th in San Francisco. During the talk, he presented a compelling argument why the URL is crucial
When writing source code for a computer application, we need a place to save source code. A single software developer can save source code on his own computer and perhaps back it up regularly. This
When writing a software application, it is often necessary to read data from a file or network. The basic approach for reading data is performed as a blocking operation. A blocking operation waits until
Over the past week I have been building a focus + context bar chart in JavaScript. I searched several alternatives on the Internet that would achieve the desired functionality. A focus
On July 11th Nicholas Zakas presented a talk on JavaScript web performance at the San
I am using VMware Player 5 (similar to Workstation 9) to run a Ubuntu 12.04 (64-bit) virtual machine. I