Splash Screens: The Final Right Way
AndroidThe impending release of Android 12 brings with it a group of new APIs for Android developers to learn and play with. Being a good citizen...
Embracing Cloud Native
Back-End Leveling UpCloud infrastructure has pushed software towards abstracting the developer away from the operating hardware, making global networks and copious amounts of computing power available...
Getting Started with Netlify: Creating your first Netlify Site
Front-EndWant to create a deployment workflow that is as easy as git push? By the end of this blog post you will have a deployment...
The 5 Steps of the Digital Customer Journey and How It Relates to CX
Customer Experience Leveling UpPicture it: Your coworker tells you about this great new coffee shop in town. Suddenly you start to see flyers and stickers for this...
Top 5 Things I Learned at RenderATL
Conferences Front-EndConferences have been hard to come by this year, but I had the privilege of attending RenderATL September 13 - 15, 2021, and am...
We’re Keeping the Ranch Online… For Now
TrainingLike many, I was optimistic about how we would rebound from the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021: change was in the air and vaccines were...
Coming soon: Kotlin Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide, Second Edition
Android Ranch NewsBack in 2018, we released the first edition of our Kotlin Programming guide. Since then, a lot has changed in the world of Kotlin....
Using the httptest package in Golang
Back-EndTesting at the edge Testing your code is a great practice, and can give confidence to the developers shipping it to production. Unit and...
Agile vs Design Thinking
Design Digital Product DevelopmentIf you spend enough time in the tech space you get used to hearing phrases that tend to lose their meaning over time. Are...
Why Prioritization is Important and How to Best Prioritize Your Backlog
Digital Product Development Project StrategyWhen it comes down to it, prioritization of work can be difficult. Even with the best intentions, backlogs become overrun with future epics, features,...
4 Things to Look for in a Customer Experience (CX) Agency
Customer ExperienceCustomer Experience (CX) is at the core of every successful and sustainable company. The trick is to get from knowing you need it to...
Types of Tech Debt
Digital Product DevelopmentThere are endless ways for tech debt to escape from its gloomy abyss of jumbled code and enter into your project. So it’s not...
