Entries Tagged as 'development'

Thursday, April 29th, 2010

Tired of trying to create nice buttons for your iPhone app? Try this.

Flat iPhone buttons as offered in Interface builder suck. They don’t look nice.
There’s the option of using Three20 to get good looking buttons. Its an option, but frankly, it feels a bit like using a sledgehammer to crack a nut. You end up with a large addition to your code, just for [...]

Tuesday, April 6th, 2010

Project Firepit

We’ve had our heads down for a couple of months. This is because we’ve been working on a project we’re very excited about. Now that our initial release is out the door, we’re happy to give out some information about it.
That project is Firepit.

What is Firepit?
Firepit is

A web based framework
For bands going [...]

Saturday, January 2nd, 2010

Style guidelines and pot roasts

In many companies I’ve worked I’ve engaged in the usual “style wars”. It goes like this.

A senior developer decides that for the new project, the entire team should use a single style. This will mean that the code is consistent across the project and make it easier for developers to work [...]