March, 2011
Nothing Premature Is Ever Good!
Most developers have heard the term “premature optimization.” What this means is that you shouldn’t focus on optimizing your code (for performance) until your project is winding down. The reason is simple: Spending hours optimizing a code to be optimally fast can instantly be wasted if that code needs to change, and if it does […]
Iron Chef America: Mozzarella!
And now for something completely different. Some friends and I got together to have a cooking day. We made three new recipes. As part of it, I was feeling creative and took some footage to make an Iron Chef America parody. Here it is. :-) I used iMovie to stitch everything together. The challenge, obviously, […]
Comments Never Get Out of Date
This blog is a response to Riyad’s assertion that comments are a waste of time. It’s definitely worth a read, but the gist of it is that code documents itself and that comments are more likely to fail than help. It’s sometimes true, but so is just about everything. :-) Reality can get in the […]
Coding Standards Are a Farce!
As young companies prosper and development teams grow, the inevitable conversation always becomes about agreeing on a set of coding standards that every developer must rigidly follow. We’ve all been there for the same tired meeting. The Meeting “Every one of us most write our code the same way to be successful.” “But we’ve had […]
John Blanco
I've been writing mobile apps professionally for 10 years: Blackberry, Java, ME, iPhone, Android. I've gotten dozens of apps into the various App Stores for dozens of clients, big and small.
My current specialty is in iOS and Xamarin development. If you need an app written at a fixed price or just need a hourly developer to give a boost to your current team, I might be your guy.
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