Posts By: Ryan Nickel

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Listen, Watch and Share! I put out a request on the twitter a few days ago looking for some new podcasts to give a listen to and a good friend of mine delivered! A few of these actually caught my eye. Namely: Refactor.tv (although I’m only going to give the audio a listen) upfront podcast…. Read more »

Pictures from a developers life | martinvalasek.com.   this is just wonderful.

So I figured I’d take a few minutes to give you a super quick rundown of how to implement Pull To Refresh for the BB10 Cascades applications. I’ve shared a GitHub project with you to fork and checkout along with this. You should be able to simply import the existing project into the QDE, build… Read more »

If I only did LAMP development, this would be HEAVENLY

My secret is out… this is how I code.

Pull to Refresh is a pretty expected gesture in mobile apps these days, and implementing it in BB10 is thankfully much easier than I had originally anticipated. I’ve created a github project for you kids to fork and play with. Over the next few days I’ll work on adding some comments to the code, and… Read more »

  I think these guys took Pro Skater a little too seriously… that said, I’m stoked. Let’s ride.  

This article rang so true with me, and I hate to quote a quote, however it’s just too perfect. On the other hand you have something PG calls the maker’s schedule – a schedule for those of us who produce stuff. Working on large abstract systems involves fitting the whole thing into your mind –… Read more »

Five Ways To Write Better Code | BrandonSavage.net. This article is a great reminder to all of us that we’re never done. I personally am trying to focus on point number 3. To that end I’ve been trying to be more social on GitHub. Feel free to follow me/light a fire under my ass.