Seeing and understanding data is richer than creating a collection of queries, dashboards, and workbooks. We’ll see how visual and cognitive science explain what makes data visualization so deeply satisfying. Why does a collection of bars, lines, colors, and boxes become surprisingly powerful and meaningful? How does fluid interaction with data views multiply our intelligence?… Read More »DSC Webinar Series: The Beautiful Science of Data Visualization: Tableau
Apple vice president Greg Joswiak took the stage at the Code/Mobile conference a couple of weeks ago to talk about the company's new products, and Re/code has now posted the video from that interview. Joswiak addressed the buggy release of iOS 8.0.1, among other things. Joswiak also talked about Apple's views on market share, saying that Apple isn't chasing quantity, but
Apple CEO Tim Cook has met with Chinese Vice Premier Ma Kai to talk security of user information. The meeting comes two days after an attack on the iCloud website in China was reported. Whether or not the attack was specifically on the table is unknown, but it is likely. From Xinhuanet: > Chinese Vice Premier Ma Kai and Apple Inc. CEO Tim Cook on Wednesday exchanged views on
Apple design head Jony Ive has given some insight into how Apple approached the design of the Apple Watch. Ive spoke about designing the Watch at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art this week. He said that the project was more challenging than the iPhone, in part due to the societal views on watches, according to the Wall Street Journal: > "Even though Apple Watch does so
While Instagram may only be officially supported on the iPhone, that doesn't mean it doesn't belong on your iPad too. The larger screen begs to have photos views on it and Instagram is no exception. Luckily, lots of App Store developers have stepped up to fill in the app. Unfortunately some options are not nearly as good as others, so if you're only interested in the best iPad
WatchKit is the name of Apple's frameworks for developing for the Apple Watch. WatchKit currently supports looks (actionable notifications), glances (widgets), and remote views (WatchKit apps). Native apps are expected to follow later this year.
If you happen to be in the market for a high-powered contact management app, then you might want to take a look at the newly-released BusyContacts. The app, by BusyMac, makers of the much-loved BusyCal calendar app, brings smart filters, customizable views, integration with the aforementioned BusyCal and more. We'll let BusyMac founder John Chaffee tell you all about what's in
The Apple Watch will ship on April 24 — which means that, right now, developers and designers are hard at work on the first generation of Apple Watch apps. {.intro} Currently limited to actionable notifications (short and long looks), widgets (glances), and remote views (WatchKit apps), even though Apple Watch apps are bound to the iPhone, there's still boundless potential.
Technology media company TechTarget, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTGT) today announced the results of their 2014 Embedded BI: Uses, Trends, Best Practices Benchmark Study. Now available for sponsorship, this in-depth study examines why and how organizations embed BI
Building user interfaces for iOS requires lots of imperative code. As a developer, you create views, configure them, and add them to the hierarchy. You then have to implement callbacks to controllers, which in turn must change the state of your views. Implementing this two-way data flow, even for a simple UI, can be tedious [...]Read More...
Building user interfaces for iOS requires lots of imperative code. As a developer, you create views, configure them, and add them to the hierarchy. You then have to implement callbacks to controllers, which in turn must change the state of your views. Implementing this two-way data flow, even for a simple UI, can be tedious [...]Read More...
Learn how to use Xamarin to build native iOS and Android apps using your .NET Framework and C# skills. We focus on Xamarin's integration with Visual Studio.
At the Connect() event in New York City, Xamarin extended their partnership with Microsoft and announced a new set of offers for developers. Xamarin enables development of cross-platform mobile applications targeting phones, tablets, and embedded devices running on iOS, Android, Mac, and Windows. Connect(), a developer event hosted by Microsoft outlining the company's next
Googler Evan Rapoport announced this week that Google would be closing Panoramio, the geolocation photo site that lets users upload photos to Google Maps
Xamarin's Evolve conference is underway in Atlanta, and on Wednesday the company announced new tools for cross-platform mobile development, along with a
Despite reports of a mass exodus of users leaving Vine in favor of rival services offered by Instagram or Snapchat, the video streaming social network has proven it has some staying power. Just about every few months we see a new update to the Android and iOS apps, usually ushering some new feature to keep it on the cutting edge of social. Their latest, geared more towards content creators than viewers, introduces "loop counts" for videos posted on Vine. Similar to views on YouTube, Vine creators can now se