App Launch: Yank
My latest project, Yank hit the iOS app store today.
Yank provides users the ability to send an emergency alert to friends and family simply by ‘Yank’-ing the headphones out of your iPhone’s audio jack.
Design by @ericajaclyn
Month: October 2013
Github Gist for converting hex color values
Once in a while we run into client style guides whose colors are all specified in hex values. Derk. Fortunately, one of the guys I work with found this handy little macro that accepts a hex string and returns a UIColor object. I figured I’d throw it into a Github Gist (see link below).
Happy Coding!
Fortune 100 Study Demonstrates Limitations of Responsive Web Design | The Search Agents
Fortune 100 Study Demonstrates Limitations of Responsive Web Design | The Search Agents.
According to this report from The Search Agents, the average load time for all Responsive Web Design (RWD) sites is over eight seconds. You can draw your own conclusions, but I think everyone can agree that something has gone horribly awry if you have to wait eight seconds for a website to load. Perhaps there was a distortion in the time-space continuum and these RWD were forced to load over a D-Link 56.6K external Voice/Fax/Data modem?
EIGHT SECONDS! My Keurig takes less time to make a cup of coffee!
My Jerry Springer Final Thought: Your mobile strategy has to extend beyond the device. And if you don’t have a mobile strategy well, “You see that flash of light in the corner of your eye…”
Double Burrito Day 