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Urban Airship In App Purchase Replacement Code is Available

We have been contacted by a couple of developers looking for help transition away from Urban Airship’s in app purchase using the approach we built for our own clients. To make the work reusable, we cleaned up the code a little and made it available as a stand alone project. The items include: – Store [...]


Snaptiva at Demo

Ramsay Hoguet, CEO of Snaptiva (our client) presented the Snaptiva iPad app at Demo. The Snaptiva app helps anyone color match like a pro using advanced algorithms and a huge database of retailer’s products spanning the fashion and home design areas. The user takes pictures of items in her wardrobe or home and then can [...]


Where to Add Mobile to Your Portfolio?

Made this presentation to the North Shore Technology IT SIG a couple of weeks ago. Lots of good discussion with the group! Please take a look and let me know your thoughts. Where to Add Mobile to Your Software Portfolio from ballastlane


Kinvey and AFIncrementalStore

As mentioned in earlier posts, we have used Kinvey for a number of apps and like their approach and developer support. For one of out client apps (Freedom Money by Hearts and Wallets) we needed a backend service that allowed users to share basically all their data at very specific times (e.g., plan reviews). We [...]


BLAStore: Urban Airship Storefront Replacement

Urban Airship is cancelling their support for their In App purchase infrastructure. While this is a huge pain for us (since the service was working nicely and required no thought on our part), the replacement (described below) is giving us a few unexpected benefits, like: better control over uploads and content versions more easily distribute [...]


Come to Our Next Mobile Presentation and Discussion … 4:00 – 5:30 on March 26th

Larry will be sharing again at the North Shore Technology Council’s March IT SIG meeting on the 26th. He gave an intro to mobile development last year at this meeting which you can review here on Slideshare (below is a short video of excerpts). The Topic: Successful strategies for selecting what parts of your software and information [...]


Sliders App from Pangaea

Our partner, Pangaea of Slovenia, just launched a new iPhone application in conjunction with Heart Shift in the UK. It’s a cool app that has a really nice user interface feature called the slider (ergo the name) that allows the user to quickly rate their feelings about diet, exercise and your overall day. I like [...]