If you are involved in web design, mobile app design, or software design in any capacity this is a must watch documentary. Connecting: The 18 minute “Connecting” documentary is an exploration of the future of Interaction Design and User Experience from some of the industry’s thought leaders. As the role of software is catapulting forward, [...]
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Kayla and I decided to take a quick trip to Las Vegas right after Christmas. Check out some of our photos.
Every year since Kayla and I got married we have attended the Life Center Married Couples Retreat. The Life Center Married Couples retreat is a weekend long event put on by Life Center church in Spokane. This year, we traveled to Whitefish Montana and stayed at the beautiful Lodge at White Fish Lake. We had [...]
Kayla and I were recently staying in the Mukilteo area for her friend Ashley’s wedding. The bridal shower was on Friday afternoon and the wedding was on Saturday. Since we had to spend a couple nights in the area, I decided to surprise Kayla and make a weekend vacation out of our trip. A couple [...]
Below are a few family photos snapped at Kayla’s niece Mya’s 3rd birthday party. We had a lot of fun at the party with all the kids and family. Even more fun than that, immediately following the birthday party I got to go on a ride along with my brother-in-law Adam who is a Moses [...]
When presented with this problem, my first instinct was to look through the PhoneGap API documentation to see if I could find a way to interact with the internal phone system. After reviewing the documentation, I wasn’t able to find the desired solution, so, I started thinking of other ways to solve this problem. After [...]
Today, I had an odd issue which took me a couple minutes to solve. I was trying to make a link from a PhoneGap iOS application to Google Maps. My intent was to have these links show using the Childbrowser plugin, which, I had installed and working for other links but for some reason Google [...]
I am currently working on a project that required me to make a cross-domain AJAX request using jQuery. This is a function that is disabled by default because of security implications, however, there is occasionally a need for this type of request. In this case, I need to load content from a remote URL or [...]
Today, I was faced with the need to redefine a PHP $_SERVER variable for an entire application, made up of hundreds of PHP pages. In this case, I needed to redefine $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] for an entire website. The application was built by another company under the assumption that $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] would always point to the document root, [...]
At Zipline Interactive, we have been doing mobile websites for a number of years. When we originally started building them, most customers were satisfied with a very simple website but as the mobile market has grown and more and more users have smartphones, many customers expect their mobile website to function much like a mobile [...]
