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Meridian Goes to Aruba: Why Wifi Networks are the Future of Location-Based Mobile 17 May 2013 | 01:00 am
First thing’s first: I’m more than a little excited to announce that our plucky startup Meridian has a new home. You may not have heard of Aruba Networks, but there’s a good chance you’re connected t...
Freeing Feeds: From Paid App to Open Source 8 May 2013 | 07:20 pm
Check out Feeds on Github, or Download it from the website. About a year ago, I created Feeds to scratch an itch. I wanted a desktop app that would help me keep tabs on our team’s commits to Github. ...
A lightweight XML parser for NodeJS/JavaScript 25 Oct 2012 | 10:11 pm
Check out xmldoc on Github or just npm install xmldoc. Ever need to parse a bit of XML in NodeJS? If so, you may be quite confused by your options. You might initially find an (excellent) callback-ba...
A Custom Callout View for iOS 22 Aug 2012 | 07:45 pm
Check out SMCalloutView on Github. There’s a great UI widget that’s been on iOS since day one: Ever wonder what that black pointy bubble is exactly? It’s kind of a strange beast. The way it “bounces...
How to create a new file in the editors I use every day. 22 Jun 2012 | 08:11 pm
ME Eclipse, I’d like to do something with this folder. ECLIPSE You can do lots of things with this folder! ME Let’s create something new in here. ECLIPSE There’s all sorts of new things we could ma...
Feeds 24 Feb 2012 | 12:06 pm
Here’s an app I whipped up with the help of designer Eric Grossnickle. It has one purpose: to live in your Mac menubar and notify you when things happen on your favorite sites. That’s pretty much it. ...
Why Indoor Navigation is so Hard 13 Oct 2011 | 07:13 am
I wrote a piece for Radar about our company’s approach to indoor navigation with mobile apps. Remember the days before you could pull your smartphone out of your pocket and get instant directions fro...
Git Is Simpler Than You Think 8 Sep 2011 | 04:23 am
It was about one year ago that we switched to Git. Previously, we used Subversion, through the Mac app Versions, which (rightly) holds an Apple Design Award. I made the executive decision to leave ou...
An iOS Developer Takes on Android 2 Aug 2011 | 02:42 am
Recently, we released the Android version of Meridian, our platform for building location-based apps. We didn’t use one of these “Cross Platform!” tools like Titanium. We wrote it, from scratch, in J...
A lightweight HTTP request class for iOS [2/2] 29 Mar 2011 | 03:43 pm
Part 1 | Part 2 Check out SMWebRequest on Github. In Part 1, we introduced SMWebRequest for making HTTP requests with little code. For instance, here’s how your view controller could download an RSS...
