‘There is an app for that’. Almost every user who uses a smartphone, especially an iPhone, has heard of this famous catch phrase made famous by Apple in 2009’s World Wide Developer Conference. Why was the line so catchy and why did it become so famous? We have to look at phones before iPhone to analyse it. Continue reading “Should there be an app for that?”
Category: Choose ‘IT’ well
Data structures and algorithms: The most important factor in the best software solutions
In today’s article, we shall see why we should toss aside peripheral arguments, like the programming language to use and which cloud service to opt for, to build long-lasting solutions. Rather, we should bring a large whiteboard and attempt to solve problems in a time-tested way: diagrams and formulae. Why? So that we determine the most efficient solution by using the basic building blocks of programming: data structures and algorithms.