Keeping up with the Joneses
You know how on one Wednesday morning every month you sign into your Windows PC and see that “updates have been installed”? Most of the time there is no effect on the rest of your day, or week, or month. Sometimes there are problems with other apps who relied on Windows behavior that was changed […]
Work In Progress: Migration of Parse to Open Source Parse Server
The announcement that Parse is shutting down in January of 2017 has sent many developers off on quests to find the replacement. Almost every mBaaS vendor out there has added a banner at the top of their front page, inviting us to migrate to their service and it clear that they would be happy to […]
Multi-Column Text Displays in Android
Recently, I was looking at creating two columns of text in an Android activity. It was not as straightforward as it first appeared to determine the number of characters that would appear in a TextView on screen but there is a simple solution. This article describes how to use the message queue of a TextView […]
Apple iOS 5 Tech Talks – What Accella Took Away
I had the opportunity to attend Apple’s iOS 5 Tech Talks on January 23rd in Austin, TX. This was an event that provided access to Apple’s engineers and subject matter experts over the course of a day. It was a great way to gain some insight into what the iOS 5 SDK offers to developers […]
Going From iPhone Developer to Android Developer in 10 seconds
Ok so it did not really take 10 seconds. I had been developing iPhone apps for a while; but an urgent need had arisen for someone to do an Android project and they asked if I would be willing to do it. Well, I like learning new things so I jumped in. For anyone else […]