2 February 2016 alan.monson@stgconsulting.com IXD
Author: Neal Jenks Design Consultant | IxD Practice Manager Ah, end-of-year: The time when a young man/woman’s fancy turns to lists. I asked Software Technology Group’s illustrious IxD Practice members to share some of their favorite UX/UI discoveries from the past year. What followed was an entertaining and instructive mixed-bag of websites, apps, and more. […]
26 January 2016 alan.monson@stgconsulting.com IXD
Author: Neal Jenks Allow me to wax prophetic. A vibrant, waning year tends to open our imaginations to the unexplored horizons yet to come, and this is especially true of the Interaction Design (IxD) world. If the past year has taught us anything, it is that we have absolutely no clue what to expect. But […]
18 January 2016 alan.monson@stgconsulting.com General Software Development
By Quinn Heiner In this article (which has no relation to Covey’s famous book, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, except maybe the number seven), we will take a different approach in our discussion of good habits by first pointing out the bad ones. By going from ineffective to effective, we will essentially discover […]
11 January 2016 alan.monson@stgconsulting.com General Software Development
Author: Quinn Heiner Imagine if your software company had an 18-month hiring process for all of its techs, and that your chances of actually getting hired were slim at best (really slim, as in maybe 5%). But no problem, let’s say you get the job! Great–now for your first project. You’ll be working with an all-volunteer […]
4 January 2016 alan.monson@stgconsulting.com QA
Author: Matt Chiang What is automation: In the most simplistic term, automation is some type of script that controls an application to do some type of action. However, there are flaws to this ideology. The background to automation probably started years ago w/ someone in QA or development when they were doing the same thing […]
14 December 2015 alan.monson@stgconsulting.com General Software Development
Author: Brett Child As a programmer, sometime or another you will be needed to dig into a legacy system. Whether you’re making changes or maybe trying to rewrite it, you’ll need to understand what’s going on. One of the biggest problems with legacy systems is that there are few to no people who truly […]
8 December 2015 alan.monson@stgconsulting.com General Software Development
Author: Quinn Heiner We’ve all heard the well-rehearsed arguments of being a full-time employee for a company versus independent contracting. With technology careers, this debate becomes even more relevant given the large number of both contracting and full-time positions available. There simply aren’t enough people to fill the demands of the industry, which for most software […]
1 December 2015 alan.monson@stgconsulting.com General Software Development
Author: Eduardo Flores This is a simple example of how to achieve the same simple GET call with (the “old”) NSURLConnection and the new NSURLSession. This project is now on Swift! (so 50% less code, and 200% more “Why??”s) This blog post is almost identical to the previous one I made on objective-c (link) but […]
24 November 2015 alan.monson@stgconsulting.com General Software Development
Author: Eduardo Flores In this post I’m going to outline how to get a list of available nearby bluetooth devices to show when scanned by an Adroid device. I’ll review how you can prompt the user to enable/turn on bluetooth in your Android device, how to show already paired bluetooth devices, and how to scan […]
17 November 2015 alan.monson@stgconsulting.com General Software Development
Author: Andrew Turcsansk I was never really taught front end development. When I first started at the University in the early 2000’s, front end development was never truly a focus for Computer Science majors. Our focus was back end web development using languages such as Java and the up and coming C#. Of course we […]
