If you’re on a native mobile development team, writing Android or iOS code, tell me if this process sounds familiar: Two devs, one Android and one iOS, receive a virtually identical development ticket for a feature They each go off into their respective vacuums and write the code, and (hopefully)…

Well, it’s the time again. And by “that time,” I of course mean the time when Google decides that since no want actually wants to use their tools, you now have to use their tools. And the tool — this time around — is the altogether incrutable Gradle Kotlin DSL. Back Up a Sec …

There are a few situations in software development that call for “mocking” your back-end API in order to fake certain data scenarios. I’ll show you how to set up fast, cloud-based API mocking in a tool most dev teams are already using: AWS. What is Mocking? API Mocking is the process of delivering…

If you run a business nowadays, you are probably looking at ways that technology can make your business more profitable or less costly. This might mean that you’re considering whether or not to build a new digital product to help achieve one or both of these goals. …

In distributed software systems, it’s very tempting to envision and even plan the development effort in the direction of dependencies → Downstream. Data flows from an originating source through an API to its final destination: the user-experience. So of course you have to build those things in that order… right? …

First off, a disclaimer: I am not a designer. I have bad design instincts, and I respect the ability to create usable digital presentations and interactions… BUT — I am a mobile developer, and I do know a bunch of stuff about how mobile apps and devices ought to work…

When you work on a software development team (or probably any professional team) it’s incredibly easy to go down into your own little rabbit hole, consumed by your personal world of deliveries and commitments, and forget that there are other people around you, constantly helping move you and your work…

If you’re working on a distributed software development team alongside product and facilitation professionals, like scrum master, business analyst, etc… you’re probably prescribing your dev teams work using some sort of ticketing system, and the cornerstone of that system is usually a User Story. What is a User Story According to Atlassian, the company that…

You have to be careful when you talk about an API for driving a digital experience, because the words you use have different meanings to different people. Case in point: Experience API. In this article we’ll talk about the dream that is the Experience API in the context of mobile…