Pete Erickson hosted a MoDevDC MeetUp last Wednesday at TeqCorner in McLean, VA, where he kicked things off with a solid hour-long chat with Tom Love. Love and Brad Cox co-created the Objective-C programming language in the early 1980s at Stepstone and the rest, as they say, is history. The discussion covers Objective-C’s roots in Smalltalk, how Stepstone ended up licensing Objective-C to Apple, and why it’s such a shame for Love that the original… Read more »

PointAbout’s CEO, Daniel Odio, was out at the National Association of Broadcasters in Las Vegas last week, where he took part in a panel discussion on the past, present, and future of mobile. This discussion centered around, among other topics, the long-simmering battle between native apps and mobile websites. NFC and mobile payments were at the top of the list of trends to watch out for. Daniel moderated the discussion, which included: Gadi Mazor, Co-Founder… Read more »

As mobile developers, part of our job is to offer insight into the mobile landscape and share articles, viewpoints, and recent findings about app development. Forrester’s Mike Gualtieri’s latest report provides an uncommon look at mobile app development. He discusses design, with an emphasis on user engagement, user experience, and keys to creating a mobile app that’s useful, usable, and desirable. Gualtieri stresses that making an app desirable and usable means taking into account the… Read more »

Pretty much the entire PointAbout team hustled out of the office yesterday afternoon to catch a picnic lunch at the National Cherry Blossom Festival. We soaked up the 80 degree weather, checked out the Jefferson Monument and the World War II Memorial from afar, and even had our fearless leader Pete Johnson interviewed by a local TV station. We have quite a few shutterbugs in the company, so there’s ample photo evidence below to show… Read more »