One of the big announcements that came out of Google I/O this year was Google Hangouts. Google Hangouts aims to create a seamless communication experience between the mobile, web, and desktop platforms. Whether you are on your computer, your Android device, or an iOS device, you can start or continue previous conversations all within Google Hangouts. One … Continue reading "Emoji…What? Google…
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Today, Google announced the new Android Studio IDE at its annual Google I/O conference. It looks to be a great improvement over Eclipse, especially when developing apps for different screen sizes such as phones and tablets. However, if you are running Windows 7 or Windows 8, you may have issues running the application. Several users … Continue reading "Android Studio…
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While developing one of our iPad applications, we came across a scenario where we needed a way to simply reposition UIView objects on the screen. The Problem You have a View that has a big logo in the center towards the top, and two UITextFields right below it: one to enter your user name, another … Continue reading "iOS: Repositioning…
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Towards the end of last summer, in the middle of the work day, I received a call from a friend who is a professor at my alma mater. The call started with, “Hey, I know you’re busy, but…” I was busy. I had recently moved back to Buffalo, I was working on an awesome new … Continue reading "My First…
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If you have ever worked on an iOS 5 application and came across a strange issue adding objects to a NSOrderedSet that is part of a NSManagedObject, you are not alone. This bug was reported on Open Radar on September 13, 2011, and was still reproducible in the latest versions of iOS5. Setting up the … Continue reading "NSInvalidArgumentException with…
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Earlier this week, I had the honor of sitting in as a panelist for a discussion on mobile marketing hosted by the Advertising Club of Buffalo. The talk, titled “Mobile Marketing: What is it and how we can utilize it?” focused on: Types of mobile strategies that companies could use as effective marketing tools The best … Continue reading "Mobile Marketing:…
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