Everything, Including the Sync!

Everything, Including the Sync!

A couple of years ago, I developed an ‘operational support system’ for anaesthesiologists working in the OR. Other than the main goal of enhancing Patient Safety by helping the docs remember to do all the things they need to do before, during and after a...
Creating Consumer Apps: What you need to know

Creating Consumer Apps: What you need to know

The overwhelming popularity of mobile apps has contributed to many success stories for a lot of companies, but that popularity has also caused a saturation of the market as many app developers try to cash in on the trend. Back in 2007, when Apple launched the iOS...

Realm – A New Mobile Database

A new mobile database for iOS (Android support coming soon) launched earlier this week called Realm. Given that up to this point your options were SQLite or something built on top of SQLite like Core Data or YapDatabase, it’s kind of a big deal. SQLite is great,...

Radically Cross Platform: Scripting with Kablooie

How would you design your own ideal scripting language?  Would you go with a functional language in the LISP family, or with a more procedural style?  Would you offer object oriented organization?  Would large parts of your ideal language be recognizable as C or...
Radically Cross Platform: Memory Management

Radically Cross Platform: Memory Management

The first post of this series described a choice of technologies and toolsets (based on Xamarin) that allows C# programmers to deploy graphics accelerated apps using OpenGL/DirectX across a radically cross platform spectrum of devices and operating systems....