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It is Sunday, Feb 17th, 2019 at 10:58 pm and I have just submitted the Minimal Free Version of Pra to the Apple App Store for review. I post in our team Slack channel that I've submitted and I cross my fingers as we wait for Apple to respond. Minimal…

This is the first status update of the Pra macOS application. I figured what better time to do this than right after 2018 ends and 2019 begins. My goal with this is to give you an idea of where I am with the development, give you some insight into th…

You might find yourself in an situation where you want to use the UINavigationBar API to create a navigation bar in one of your views. But it doesn't look quite right. It doesn't extend up behind the status bar like you've seen it do countless times …

While I am waiting to collect information from the survey, I started thinking about how I could make money with Pra. I thought about it before at a high level. But now I have started thinking about it in more depth. Expectations It is important to un…

Back in 2013, I was lead of a software development team at ReachLocal, Inc. At the time we were using GitHub for open source projects and Atlassian Stash for our private Git repositories. We required at least one reviewer to review each pull request …

Why? Sizing and Optimizing images for iOS can have a huge impact on performance of your app and the overall user experience. Therefore, it is important to take the time to figure out the proper sizing for your images and to make sure that they get ap…

Today, I was working on a client project. As usual a couple of designers had done some high fidelity designs in Sketch that I was riffing off. In the designs on the Sign Up screen near the bottom there was the classic notice stating that by signing …

I believe that there is a large gap in current development practices in terms of association of identity and source code. This is something that a large percentage of people have been ignoring for quite some time. I was one of those people until rece…

The Problem Given that UpTech is a consultancy, our team is often pretty fragmented in terms of physical location. For example, I might be on-site at a client's office while another member is at a different client's office, and yet other members are …

This is yet another screencast I dug up while cleaning out some of the digital clutter. This one provides a great basic walk through of outside in development despite using a sligtly older version of RSpec. The biggest difference in RSpec versions at…