The Future of Tech Depends On Upskilling Your Team
Original Article Featured in Entrepreneur.com. When my company began, we were decidedly generalists. We didn’t specialize in any one industry or technology, and we saw ourselves as a technology company that was reasonably skilled at building apps for mobile devices. Things were good for a while, but competition in the technology world made us wonder about […]
Dogtown Media Discusses Changing Careers & Building Teams at General Assembly
On February 27th, we had the awesome opportunity to discuss career transformation and how to build a great team at General Assembly’s Downtown Los Angeles location. For a 45-minute panel and 30-minute Q&A session, Justin Hall, our senior iOS Engineer, Kim Calderone, our UX and UI designer, and Marc Fischer, our CEO and co-founder, got […]
App Developer Challenges: Writing Helpful Bot Dialogue
The chatbot trend has been burning for a while now, and one of the biggest challenges facing app developers who jump into the fray isn’t entirely a question or programming. Instead, it’s a question of writing. Dialogue isn’t simple, and the trope of the anti-social hoodie-and-flip-flops San Francisco app developer doesn’t exactly lend itself to […]
Apple Backpedals on Self-Driving Car Operations
According to a report from Bloomberg, Apple is scaling back their plan to manufacture smart cars top-to-bottom similar to Tesla. Instead, the market-leading tech company and mobile app platform will focus on the software business they’re more known for, potentially building out software systems to be incorporated into vehicles from other manufacturers. The main source […]
Slack Vs Hipchat: Communication Isn’t Just about Tools
“It’s a poor carpenter that blames their tools.” It may be a cliche, but that doesn’t make it any less true, for carpenters and iPad app developers alike. Most app development companies (and many non-tech companies) made the switch to Slack, Hipchat, and other chat-based workplace communication tools over the past year. As users move […]