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When it comes to promoting and developing iPhone apps, the application icon is key. “Your app icon is the window to your software” -Steve Jobs Here are some tips for a good iPhone Icon: Make it unique If using a logo, keep it simple Try to convey functionality through a picture Use bright colors and clean edges Don’t forget about... Read more

The first obvious tool that we need to consider (and probably a factor like no other, and key to a project’s success) is the smooth and fluent communication flow among team members. Every decision we make will depend on each project’s specific characteristics and needs: client preferences, adopted development practices, etc. I will be describing... Read more

We are getting ready to build out metrics for one of our large community based applications. In our preparation for this task, we have been reading and reviewing different strategies. We ran across Neil Patel’s (of KISSmetrics) Web App Metrics talk from earlier in the year and found it to contain some excellent recommendations. I like his approach... Read more

When I was looking for any documentation on how to build a REST services that returns an image which a browser could render, I couldn’t find it. So I figured this entry might be worth writing. The problem was simple. I had a file repository that stored images with unique IDs and I wanted to access those files directly using a URL without having to... Read more

Since last year’s successful attacks to dozens of top level technology companies, including the Aurora attack, many of the common IT security and protection strategies are now proving to be insufficient.  The Aurora Operation, as it was named, targeted an unknown vulnerability in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and siphoned off valuable information... Read more

As an Agile company, Romanlogic has choosen to become specialized in building applications using the Google Web Toolkit (GWT).  As developers with experience in J2EE, PHP, Ruby on Rails, and .NET, we have seen just about every web devleopment tool and paradigm. While they are all compelling and at times, the only tool for the job, we have chose to... Read more

Romanlogic had the chance to do something that we do well…. running a TopCoder competition.  The situation was that we needed to get a geospatial application up and running on an Amazon virtual server.  The competitor had to do the following: Run a webserver and database Build client and server code to meet the specification Submit a working... Read more

In handling geographically dispersed team members, I find today’s highly-dynamic IT industry offers challenging scenarios to project managers. Some of these challenges, however, are not that different from the ones encountered in a traditional project environment. Here are some of the common difficulties I face in when working with remote teams,... Read more