With the unfortunate demise of Bloom.fm, a product I designed and developed as CTO for 2.5 years at a company I co-founded 5.5 years ago; I think it’s a good time to write a series on my learnings, decisions and experiences. My development team (minus visual designers) varied from 6-13 developers over the years. With this size team we wrote a music …
The underlying issue is the different animation models on Android and iOS. iOS uses CoreAnimation, an API created by the iPhone team for the original iPhone that was back ported to the desktop OSX. CoreAnimation is a retained mode graphics strategy. Microsoft WP7 also uses retained mode. Google’s Android uses …
I’ve written a new AudioPlayer/AudioStreamer for iOS. It’s improved upon Matt Mallagher’s AudioStreamer by adding queueing, gapless playback, pre-buffering and a simple but extensible data source model (it works with more than HTTP). You can find it at GitHub.
I’ve had my Roomba 570 for almost two months. In that time, the little guy has been automatically vacuuming the house automatically everyday. A couple of weeks ago, I found him dead (no lights), in the morning, half way through a cleaning cycle. After picking him up he came back …