According to Philip Stanhope, the 4th Earl of Chesterfield, “Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.” However, anyone who has worked in software development knows that projects have to meet time and budget constraints. Shortcuts and tradeoffs are par for...
How Revolutionary is the Low Code/No Code (LCNC) Revolution?
Low code/no code (LCNC) development platforms advertise themselves as being tools that anyone can use to build applications. This is appealing to people who can’t write code, but who are customer-facing, because they know what customers want applications to do and...
Application Stability Assessment: Why It’s Your Most Critical Investment in 2021
An application is only as strong as its code. More specifically, it’s only as strong as how its code consistently behaves in response to user action. Application stability management (ASM) determines whether your code is working the way you intended. This is...
2021 Trends in Wearable Devices and Wearable Application Development
Wearable technology innovations have the potential to significantly enhance medical services, the safety of vulnerable populations, athletic performance, consumer research, and many other applications. Wearables have become much more than a glitzy fashion...
How COVID-19 Has Changed Mobile App Development
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed and continues to change every aspect of our lives. A fundamental shift has occurred in how we live and think. All this began in 2020 when the world suddenly locked down to limit the spread of COVID-19. The United States implemented...
Geolocation Technologies and Apps: Benefits and Uses in 2021
Contrary to popular belief, the first geolocation app was not Pokémon GO, but rather a Palm Computing app called TrafficTouch that delivered real-time traffic alerts to the Palm VII. Although basic and without GPS (this was back in 1999, after all), the solution...