Posts Tagged ‘Development’

When personal computers were first sold they had to include a programming language so that people could write programs to make them useful. While that is no longer the case for PCs, and certainly is not for smartphones thanks to their app stores, you might still encounter situations where no app is available that is a perfect fit for a need. In such situations it might be useful to have an easy way to create your own apps, and if you are interested in doing so you might consider Podio.
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Earlier this year we wrote about how Android users are not buying apps. Earlier reports also stated that iPhone users buy more apps than Android users. Well, a Gigaom article suggests that those numbers are changing, but with a twist. According to the article, which cites data from Distimo, in-app purchases account for 72% of the revenue from the App Store, and a significant number of in-app purchases are being made with free apps.
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The challenge for mobile application developers is being able to make their apps available for a multitude of platforms, each of which have different development environments that require writing separate applications. A small developer may have to choose to only write their app for only one platform because that is all they can afford to support, or at the very least pick one first and then develop for other platforms later. PhoneGap is a HTML5 app platform that allows developers to write apps in one development environment and deploy it to multiple smartphone platforms.
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From marketing to software development, work-from-home projects are on the rise as businesses downsize and more people look for work online. Over the past few years, work from home projects relating to social networks and social media have become an increasingly important part of this market. And the latest report on the state of the work from home job market released by DoNanza, the world’s leading work from home job search engine, shows that this market has diversified to include not only projects for Facebook, but also the up-and-coming new location-based social network Foursquare as well.

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Twitter is just one more of the many tech companies who are turning to custom data management solutions due to the high volume of user-generated data. As an alternative to the fairly common practice of ‘sharding’ a database (splitting it up over several computers), Twitter came up with a solution they call Gizzard, which they’ve made available for other developers.
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Not only have the Twitter platform and API enabled hundreds of 3rd-party applications, they have helped spawn 43 other APIs — or Application Programming Interfaces — as well as a decent number of application opportunities.
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If you work on 3rd-party tools built over Twitter’s API and have noticed a problem with the URLs of updated profile pics, tweetimages now offers a solution to the problem. According to the tweetimages website, the problem lies in the in the profile_image_url attribute of a user’s profile because it links to an Amazon S3 URL, which changes if a user updates their Twitter profile image. While the Twitter website itself handles any profile pic updates, 3rd-party tools sometimes retain older pic URLs. Tweetimages offers a simple solution so that developers don’t have to come up with their own.
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