The WWDC Keynote has come and gone, there were a bunch of great announcements, but none more exciting than the announcement of HomePod. While the name leaves a lot to be desired Apple is coming into the smart speaker space with guns blazing. Privacy is a huge concern right now, […]
Even though the advent of social media began to explode with the rise of Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, attempting to capture the attention of active users has come across every CEO and marketer’s desk. How can we tap into the mind of the millennial and make things go viral, some might ask. […]
With the release of Amazon Lex into the wild creating conversational interfaces is suddenly within reach for anyone with a little bit of dev skill. Being able to do something doesn’t mean that you should do something, but that’s not going to stop a ton of people from dropping poorly designed […]
Recently the tech world has been ablaze with talk of serverless architectures. Whether serverless proves to be the future or a passing fad has yet to be seen (I’m in the “it’s the future” camp), but one thing is for sure it needs a new name. Going “serverless” doesn’t mean […]
I should know better, I really should. I always talk up the benefits of automated testing, always push our team towards test-driven development, and make it a point talk about the time saved in the long run. This time I failed to heed my own advice and it bit me in […]
The Register posted a story of a Dishwasher with a directory traversal bug. The bug brings to light the dangers of companies unfamiliar with software injecting software into their products. Software is hard, even relatively simple software has thousands of places that something can go wrong. In most cases software […]
Last week we kicked off Part I of Project TED with a quick introduction to the project and talked a little about our scraper. This week we’ll talk about ingesting the scraped data into a database for further analysis. Our scraper leaves us with one text file for each TED talk, […]
During our weekly development reviews we get together over lunch and talk shop, during these get togethers we usually watch a video while everyone eats. We’ve found that TED talks are almost always interesting and give us a lot to talk about, even though they rarely relate directly to the technologies […]
Influence for the next great app can come from anywhere. A personal problem, a beautiful building, a painting, or even a song can be the inspiration for crafting a great user experience. As with anything new to the world there will be a period of rapid growth. Newly discovered use-cases […]
By now everyone has heard of the Internet of Things, but the average person doesn’t know what to make of it. In tech circles we’ve been discussing IoT for years and know that the technology will become an important part of our lives, but we still haven’t seen widespread adoption […]
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