Internet of Things presentation
November 14th I gave a presentation on the Internet of Things to students in their final year at the Karel De Grote Applied University of Antwerp. The preparation was an interesting journey for me. It (re-)confirmed that there is traction,…
The Wearable Bank
In a sense a banking app on a mobile phone is already ‘Wearable’. Yet having apps on a Smart Watch or other ‘really’ wearable devices will allow us to do all kinds of new interesting interactions in general and with…
3 Successful hybrid banking apps
With facebook, LinkedIn going off the Hybrid route a year or two ago and now with Asana also leaving the path of hybrid one might think hybrid apps have no place in Appland. However, some banks seem to have made…
Mobile ads and independent game developers
In the interesting article Games Take Center Stage in Mobile Ad Surge on The Information, Walter Driver, CEO of Scopely, a mobile game publisher, calls Facebook “a very elaborate platform for routing people to the apps that are most relevant…
Great book on web site performance
Just when we thought we don’t need to worry too much about web site performance anymore, because PCs seem to have unlimited performance and are connected to broadband networks, come along mobile devices that are very capable yet resource restrained…
4 reasons you should stay away from Almost-Scrum
[Originally posted on rtos.be] “Almost-Scrum” or what is also known more generally speaking as the Avalanche Model is not a good project approach to find yourself in with your development team. On Wiki you’ll find the following description: “The Avalanche model is a Software Engineering…