Swift Essentials: Extensions
Retroactive modeling is the practice of using existing types to represent new concepts, without modifying those types. This technique is important for reusing existing structures, while maintaining …
Christmas Happenings
Earlier this year we put together a Christmas Card Workshop for employees to bring their kids. We invited them to EG on a Saturday for cookie decorating (and eating of course), Christmas card making, …
Swift Essentials: Closures
Most, if not all, programming languages have a construct for defining reusable sets of instructions. In Swift that construct is a closure. A closure is a self-contained chunk of code that is used to …
Solar Eclipse 2017
August 21, 2017. The day the sun went dark. Starting in Oregon and ending in South Carolina, the eclipse was a sight to see. A partial eclipse could be seen from most of the United States, but that …
Approximately Pi-Approximation Day
There’s Pi Day (3.14 or March 14th) and then there’s Pi Approximation Day (22/7 or 22 July), which is technically tomorrow. So, within a little over 4 months there are (at least) two wonderful …
Graphics
Plow through organic mock up regroup OLA hackathon next level B2B. Responsive behavior EOD innovation internally regroup tweak functionality lead generation segment. Mock up mobile-first user persona …
UX Design
Plow through organic mock up regroup OLA hackathon next level B2B. Responsive behavior EOD innovation internally regroup tweak functionality lead generation segment. Mock up mobile-first user persona …
Logo Design
Plow through organic mock up regroup OLA hackathon next level B2B. Responsive behavior EOD innovation internally regroup tweak functionality lead generation segment. Mock up mobile-first user persona …
Plow through organic mock up regroup OLA hackathon next level B2B. Responsive behavior EOD innovation internally regroup tweak functionality lead generation segment. Mock up mobile-first user persona …
UI Design
Plow through organic mock up regroup OLA hackathon next level B2B. Responsive behavior EOD innovation internally regroup tweak functionality lead generation segment. Mock up mobile-first user persona …
Exploring Progressive Web Applications
Over the past few years, the web applications I’ve worked on have increasingly taken a mobile-first design approach. This is great from a presentation standpoint, providing the users with a …
Swift Essentials: Optionals
Swift is designed to be safer than C-based programming languages. For example, Swift is a type safe language, that uses compile-time type checking to help catch errors early in the development …
Swimming in the deep end with RxJava and Android
At E-gineering, we’ve been using RxJava to help us handle networking (with Retrofit) and threading in Android apps due to the ease with which it handles these tasks. As a learning exercise, Nate …
Bringing new life to a Sales application suite. And DevOps!
A little over a year ago, one of our clients came to us and asked if we would take over a project that had fallen into disrepair. Much effort had been expended to get the project off the ground …
Android Data Binding Subtleties
One of the things I love about being an Android developer is the amount of resources available at my fingertips on the Internet. There’s a strong community of developers sharing open source libraries, …
Backpacking Deam
The Deam Team ~ I’m sure that’s the first time that joke has ever been made. Or perhaps not… A few, proud group of E-gineers (and a stalwart friend of E-g) recently made our way out to the …