Darin Pope Blog
No, I did not fall off the face of the earth, however…
it sure felt like it.
I just realized that I haven’t posted anything since Jan 17. Yep, that’s 3 months ago. Where did the time go? No excuse. Time to get back in the saddle.
Interestingly enough, what I have to say today is very close to what I said on Jan 17. I’m getting to upgrade [...]
New Android SDK, Terracotta 3.2 and here I go to bootcamp again
This week, I signed up for the upcoming Big Nerd Ranch Android bootcamp near Atlanta. I attended the iPhone bootcamp last year and it was great. I’m expecting great things out of the class. It is taught by Mark Murphy, the founder of CommonsWare and the author of Busy Coder’s Guide to Android Development. I’ve [...]
Story Driven Development with Cucumber, RightScale and Punk Rock HR
This past week, Sean Cribbs presented “Story-Driven Development with Cucumber” at the Charlotte Ruby User Group. I’m still trying to get the hang of Ruby, but I have to admit, there are a lot of cool tools around the Ruby community, and Cucumber is no different.
Here are a couple of items that I gleaned from [...]
Mobile analytics, Terrastore and getting off your butt
According to releases from both companies on 12/23, Pinch Media and Flurry are merging. I’m using both providers and have been pleased with both of them. I’m really looking forward to combined company and the new products that they will bring to market over the next year.
I still haven’t tried out Google Analytics for mobile [...]
ZXing, MongoDB and Search Exchange
It’s been a couple of weeks since I last posted. No excuses, just didn’t do it.
Lenya got back burnered, but it’s coming back out again next week. I’ve had a number of very interesting and cool quick projects with a client that precluded me from working on the Lenya implementation. I’m really excited about attacking [...]