3 things we need to analyse when getting the Mock Up screen

When we are develop application, we may receive lots of Mock Up screen from the Design team or we will create them to help us design the program;

In this article, I will talk about what are the things or information we could discover from the Mock Up screen that helping us to develop our programs;

7 basic things need to know when learning something new in programming

Recently I am learning the ReactJS framework made by Facebook; During the learning process, I have organised 7 important things we need to know when we are learning a new programming language, platform or framework;

8 major tasks in UI/UX development

This article discusses about the different tasks will be done by the front-end or called UI/UX developers based on my experience these few years; You will be interested if you are a front-end developer or want to develop a better user interface for your App;

How to make REST APIs for your app

In my project, besides the project manger role, I am also the one responsible for the backend implementation; In the project, the client and server are talking using the REST API; This is a simple note  about how to build the APIs for the client side;

Steps to make REST APIs

Hacking note 2015 #5

Duration: 1st Jun ~ 31 Jul

Recently I has done and been working on the following stuff:

• Revamping Triend’s UI (note: Triend is the app I am developing)
• Implement a “Group” Feature
• Trying the mobile “Geocoder”

AppDev: 6 things we SHOULD DO when making an APP

This articles about my sharing about the things we should do during an application development;

The Four Steps of Debugging

This article is about the concept on how to debug a program; No matter which language and platform you are using or no matter you are making front end or backend, the following concept will help;

Hacking Note 2015 #4

During 11 May ~ 31 May, I have worked for a simple responsive web, refactoring the backend and the android structure;

Fix Note: OutOfMemory of Android Crop Library

Error Log screenshot

Open source Library: https://github.com/jdamcd/android-crop
Platform: Android

Today I finally fixed the OutOfMemory problem of the image crop library that I used to crop the profile picture given from the user;

The problem happened when a high-resolution image is being inputted, e.g over 1M to crop; Android hits an OutOfMemory problem when decoding the image;

3 Tips to make a good Requirement Specification

In my ongoing and past projects, I always need work with the product designers or game designers; To make sure the artists and programmers can make the product, I always asked them to provide specifications;

However, it is easy to make a specification but it is hard to make it clear enough to let the development team know what to be done;