Philosophy, Page 5

We’re about an hour away from the Apple event where they will announce the new Apple TV. Here are the things I’m going to be watching for based on my time researching Smart TVs, game…

Three years ago after writing Head First Mobile Web with Lyza, I was burnt out on mobile and wanted to do something different. So I decided to start researching the web on TVs. TVs…

A frequent question that product owners face is whether not someone will do a particular activity on a mobile device or not. In my experience, people often arrive at two answers based on context. When…

What process do you use for your projects? Agile? Waterfall? Scrum? Extreme? A little bit of everything? Join the club. I had the pleasure of spending some time Saturday with a number of talented colleagues…

GitHub introduced a new text editor called Atom last week, and reactions (at least in my Twitter feed) seem divided between fervent desire and snide disregard. For every few people shamelessly begging for invites,…

A quick, pre-holiday post to mention with excitement the publishing of “Vexing Viewports“, an article on A List Apart that I co-wrote with Peter-Paul Koch (@ppk), Stephanie…

App stores have been great for consumers and developers. One-click purchasing is awesome. But as a small business owner, they cause us nothing but grief. In the boxed software world, I knew that if we…

Oh, I am excited! Video from my presentation at Mobilism in Amsterdam has been posted. I’m already excited about Mobilism for next year! In this presentation, “Cutting through the Crap: The Essence of…

Developing on the mobile (or pan-device) web is hard. Maybe too hard. Yeah, kind of too hard sometimes. My days are spent chasing down the vital new frameworks (maybe not so vital, really, in retrospect),…