Author Archives for Bobby Gill
April 15, 2022 2:55 pm
Published by Bobby Gill
Apple does a lot of things right in their app development experience, but when it comes to application signing and distribution, the Apple developer experience has been a confusing mess…
April 7, 2022 10:36 am
Published by Bobby Gill
Finding a developer to build your app in 2022 is a broad idea that ultimately requires a collection of different skillsets relative to the scope of a project. Every app…
April 2, 2022 9:00 am
Published by Bobby Gill
Augmented reality technology isn’t simply for gaming and social media. While Pokemon Go! and Snapchat may have introduced the general public to this technology, augmented reality design also has many…
March 10, 2022 11:45 am
Published by Bobby Gill
Apple’s CarPlay framework enables iOS app developers to integrate their apps to work within a vehicle’s head unit (or Infotainment system), leveraging the head unit as a user interface (UI)…
March 1, 2022 5:21 pm
Published by Bobby Gill
Innovation in design and under the hood of a digital product is wonderful but there are many times it can work against you, your product, and your users. Here, I…
February 15, 2022 1:30 am
Published by Bobby Gill
Updated on 02/15/22 If you are about to embark on a mobile project, get ready to hear the term “prioritization” thrown at you endlessly – if you’re new to digital…
February 10, 2022 3:26 pm
Published by Bobby Gill
Like many other Ethereum developers, the developers at Blue Label Labs‘ fledgling Ethereum development division have come to rely on OpenZeppelin extensively in most of our ERC-20 and ERC-721 development.…
February 8, 2022 2:23 pm
Published by Bobby Gill
As the Covid-19 pandemic comes to an end, many people are still stuck with their quarantine habits. One of these habits is consuming content through their phones, and streaming devices…
February 1, 2022 3:50 pm
Published by Bobby Gill
At Blue Label Labs, we have standardized our mobile app development to use React Native for both Android and iOS builds. As part of our build workflow, we leverage Bitrise…
January 18, 2022 9:19 am
Published by Bobby Gill
The web based Remix IDE is the go-to development editor for those looking to develop and test Ethereum contracts. However, while Remix is an excellent tool for developing Ethereum contracts,…
January 11, 2022 9:56 am
Published by Bobby Gill
Within the iOS development community, there seems to be a heated debate between SwiftUI and UIKit. Both of these frameworks offer a variety of benefits, while at the same time,…
December 7, 2021 2:11 pm
Published by Bobby Gill
A frustrating issue that I’ve run into with using the Celigo iPaaS tool for syncing data from Salesforce to a Postgres database is that sometimes the real-time data flow from…
November 24, 2021 8:28 pm
Published by Bobby Gill
This Part 3 of a 3-part series that walks through the steps of using Amazon CodePipeline and CodeDeploy to automate the deployment of a Node based web service to an…
November 24, 2021 7:42 pm
Published by Bobby Gill
This Part 2 of a 3-part series that walks through the steps of using Amazon CodePipeline and CodeDeploy to automate the deployment of a Node based web service to an…
November 24, 2021 7:09 pm
Published by Bobby Gill
At Blue Label Labs, we build a lot of apps! For many of those apps, we use Node to build out JSON-based web services that provide backend functionality to these…
November 21, 2021 1:30 pm
Published by Bobby Gill
One of my biggest gripes with Windows 10, when I’m using my Microsoft Surface Pro, is its tendency to change screen orientation with just the smallest shift in how I…
November 5, 2021 11:53 am
Published by Bobby Gill
An important part of proper disaster recovery and preparation processes is the automatic creation of backups of production databases. As a digital agency, we develop a number of different iPhone,…
October 13, 2021 2:00 pm
Published by Bobby Gill
As a digital agency focused on app development, we often find ourselves inheriting projects that other developers started from which we need to first analyze and understand the schema of…
October 4, 2021 11:02 am
Published by Bobby Gill
An important, but often overlooked, concept when building an app or new software service is that of auditing. Auditing in this context refers to maintaining a reliable and complete log…
September 24, 2021 12:00 pm
Published by Bobby Gill
In app development, not all bugs are created alike and not every bug in your app deserves to sip the precious nectar that is developer time. Yeah your app is…