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May 10, 2012: Responsive?

Here at Sundog we create a lot of responsive websites.  Essentially you create one site which scales its size and changes its layout and content based on the browser resolution.

May 02, 2012: comScore Releases New Smartphone Numbers

In a recent press release, comScore has released data from their comScore MobiLens service used for reporting key trends in the U.S. Mobile phone industry.  The data is derived from an average of a three month survey which surveyed more than 30,000 U.S. mobile subscribers.

April 02, 2012: iOS Salesforce SDK Tips

Recently I have had the opportunity to start to use the Salesforce SDK for iOS.  So far this has been a great tool which takes care of a lot of the leg work in dealing with the Salesforce REST api.  Until now I have mostly concentrated my efforts in the Android arena.  When I did start to write an app in iOS I had found that there were a couple of issues that I was having troubles with.

March 20, 2012: Underdog

This past weekend I had the opportunity to attend Mobile March in the Twin Cities.  During the conference, I attended a four hour long Microsoft Windows Phone training session.  My reasoning for attending this session was to learn more about a platform I have little experience in.

December 28, 2011: How Incredible Is Your Incredible: Part Three of the SS Sundog Journey

Now that I had a fully functioning, and maybe the first of its kind, weather balloon tracking/photo-taking app, I was ready to send it off. I figured I better clear it with my boss to make sure it was all right to send my phone off into space. I am not sure if he quite believed what I was going to do but he was on board saying something along the lines of “You break it, you bought it.” With that green light, I ordered a 300-gram weather balloon off eBay and a 24” nylon parachute from Amazon.com. I used a piece of left over 1-1/2” Styrofoam insulation, some Plexiglas and zip-ties to build a box to house the phone. I sandwiched the phone in between two pieces of the insulation and cut out a hole for the camera to be able to take pictures.

December 27, 2011: How Incredible Is Your Incredible: Part Two of the SS Sundog Journey

Having already built a number of Android applications, the process was familiar to me. But I did need to research using the GPS, camera, sending SMS messages, and creating a background service to run everything. The biggest obstacles were determining the best way to create and handle the loops that had to occur and getting the camera to work inside a service.

December 22, 2011: How Incredible Is Your Incredible: Part One of the SS Sundog Journey

As technology continues to expand, we are rewarded with affordable and sophisticated pieces of hardware that would have made any tech geek beyond excited just a few short years ago. This series of blog posts will chronicle my experience with some standard pieces of technology (by today’s standards) and how I used my imagination to push the limits of these devices to achieve a goal I dreamed about as a kid.