Memory allocations is a religious topics for developers. If you do it and when to do it are highly individual issues. I think it needs to be looked at further – especially since I have a religious view of it as well.
Hacking of e-commerce sites have been reported recently and made its waves here in the Israeli media. I think this is good for the Israeli sites, and there’s a lot to learn here if you are a developer or a site owner. Here are a few of the suggestions I can give you.
Consumer electronics these days are shifting their focus. They now need to be connected and come with cloud services included. What does that mean to device manufacturers, application developers and the developers themselves?
There’s an idea of having a 4-hours coding day for develpers. I can’t agree with it due to a number of reasons. That said, I do see merit in some of the concepts the author provides on his post.
There’s this book I read a while ago and I think it changed my life. It is called The Flinch, by Julien Smith. It’s a great book that will make you stop flinching and start acting instead.
I do hope it will work for me…
LinkedIn just sent out an email with some of the contacts I have on their network that have changed jobs during 2011. I’ve looked into it a bit to see if there are insights to be found there – and there are.
There’s now a smartphone that uses an Intel chip. The elephant has made itself heard in the ARM room. Two years ago, when we started looking at ARM chipsets for Android devices to decide which ones to focus on first with our products at RADVISION, I had a chat with an engineer of one of […]
There are talks once in a while about companies wanting to acquire RIM. Does it make any sense? I went this week to WIPJam Tel-Aviv. The sessions were interesting and a lot of stuff was raised. I learned a lot – especially about our own home-grown apps companies and ecosystem here in Israel. I went […]
Mobile software architecture is quite complex. This complexity, coupled with the diversity of the devices and operating systems out there and the fast pace and innovation in this industry make writing applications for smartphones a real challenge – especially if you plan on supporting multiple devices or simply if you wish to survive the next firmware upgrade of the phone. My only tip for developers is to stick to the highest level possible for each module in their app.