Comments for The Flying Developer

Comment on Who Goes First? An App to Entertain Boardgamers by Alejandro

Alejandro — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 18:46:43 +0000

This is awe some. I love it. I’m so using this next time I sit down with my friends to play games!

Comment on Against the Android Action-Bar by fluxtah

fluxtah — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 20:47:29 +0000

You’re totally right, I also do the same, and holding a pint in my right hand does not give me the option to paw at it with my right unless I put my drink down. is there an out of the box way in the ask to flip the action bar menu options?

Comment on The Flying Developer Learns To Write by Dan M

Dan M — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 07:21:28 +0000

Good to see you blogging again!

I read Copyblogger regularly, and I find that helps my writing (and often my speaking, too). (http://www.copyblogger.com/blog)

For presentations, I find sometimes using the right tool will keep me from making “too many bullet” type mistakes. I avoid PowerPoint as much as possible, since it’s built around the bullet-or-image concept. Lately I’m a huge fan of impress.js. (http://bartaz.github.com/impress.js)

Comment on The Flying Developer Learns To Write by Carson Brown

Carson Brown — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 14:09:59 +0000

Another fantastic rule to follow when building slides (or even e-mails) is to try to compose the message in E-Prime (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Prime), a subset of English that does not contain the verb ‘to be.’ It forces sentences to be more direct about the subject at hand, as well as limiting their length.

Comment on Against the Android Action-Bar by Parrotlover77

Parrotlover77 — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 20:56:59 +0000

I like the idea of a unified UI, but it’s not just the right/left sided placement of action bar items that are bad. Placing them at the top is also bad. For those of us cursed with small hands, it’s a stretch to reach the top of the screen on large phones. The convenient thing about the menu button was that it’s at the bottom!

The one and only thing Windows Phone 7 got right was putting actions and overflow at the bottom and centered in the screen. That way it’s convenient for either hand, no matter the hand size nor screen size.

The action bar paradigm looks nice on the screen, but it’s not a good user experience at all.

I, for one, will not be supporting it in my apps. It just provides a bad user experience. The menu button was ugly, but it worked well.

Comment on The Flying Developer Eats His Own Dogfood by @seriald

@seriald — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 20:28:05 +0000

Are you thinking offering up larger sizes?

Comment on The Flying Developer Eats His Own Dogfood by tetchi

tetchi — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 15:30:37 +0000

Great post David! Good luck with the tees! If you ever need a new theme, you know who to ask… ;)

Comment on The Flying Developer Is A Magician by Johannes of Sweden

Johannes of Sweden — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 14:28:22 +0000

How does it go With the magic scanner program?

Comment on Against the Android Action-Bar by Chris Jenkins

Chris Jenkins — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 19:53:09 +0000

I like the action bar, it fits with the Honeycombe pattern (thus people adopting it).
It does make more sense over the iOS top nav bar which annoyes me (i use iOS and Android)

I wouldn’t stray away from the action bar, but having a setting to change the buttons around, it is of course a much better implementation, thanks for the idea!

Comment on The Flying Developer Moves by @seriald

@seriald — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 20:27:39 +0000

I think I have the same one