PhD grant recipient, keen traveller, and avid curler, Salsita’s developer David Kuboň knows precisely where to go and how to keep his stack full…
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React Native, PWAs and the decline of native mobile app development
s the head of a software services company, I am often asked to advise clients on strategic technological decisions. The most common query nowadays is which framework to choose for mobile app development.…
For the Future of Mobile Advertising, Look to the Music Industry
TechCrunch's Jon Evans offers a useful survey of the reactions elicited by Apple's decision to support content-blocking browser extensions in iOS 9. Notwithstanding the breast-beating of Marco Arment (who removed his hit ad blocker from the App Store after two days because it "just didn't feel good"), I…
Reddit's Anti-Spamming Policy is Counterproductive
Update: Looks like I got banned from Reddit for posting this. That makes me sad. In the mid-to-late aughts, when I was last blogging regularly, I would hustle by any means necessary to get my posts read and grow my RSS subscriber base. It was immensely satisfying when I finally…
Apple's New App Name Reservation Policy Makes Life Easier For Developers (and App Name Squatters)
If you have ever developed a complex iOS app, there's a good chance that you have bumped into iTunes app name expiry. If so, you can skip the next couple of paragraphs. Often a new iOS development project starts out not just with a great idea, but also with a…
Advertisers Should Love AdBlock Plus
Last weekend On The Media ran a repeat airing of their excellent episode on online business models. One of the segments is an interview with AdBlock Plus CEO Till Faida, who defends their eyebrow-raising business model of charging large companies to not block their ads. Yesterday Salon ran an article…