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Fixed-price UpWork Contracts

I was recently involved with a startup as CTO, kicking off the technology side of the business. I picked Flutter as the UI technology for the phone app. The challenge was to find devs to work with that relatively new tech. There was lots of competition in the city we’d started in (pre COVID-19) for those who learned Flutter early, but globally there are a lot of people. And while we moved all developers we’d taken on to full-stack skills that would include Flutter, we needed to bootstrap our development.

What we did was place fixed-price contracts on UpWork for…

Paul Hammant's blog

25 June 2020

How to enable and style large titles in your navigation bar

JR

24 June 2020

Lightning Talks at Sydney ALT.NET (30 June)

At next Sydney ALT.NET meetup (30 June), I’ll be giving a couple of short talks from around 7pm: Building a Rust microservice, dockerising and deploying on Google Kubernetes EngineWalk through of a little side project, showing you how this tech works and fits together. Terminal COVID-19 tracker in your postcodeBrought to you in one line, […]

James

23 June 2020

2 – Spotify Album Design In Swift (image resizing and fade)

JR

20 June 2020

1 – Spotify Album Design In Swift (UICollectionView, ListCell, HeaderView)

JR

20 June 2020

4 – Spotify Playlist and Tracks in Swift

JR

19 June 2020

3 – Spotify Menubar Interactions in Swift

JR

18 June 2020

2 – Spotify Menubar Navigation in Swift

JR

17 June 2020

1 – Spotify Title Menu Bar in Swift

JR

16 June 2020

Fast ML model building

PyCaret -> https://pycaret.org/

dan

11 June 2020

My Adventures Through BrainStation

Over the last eight months, I have been trying to learn what I need to know to transition from being a software engineer to doing UI/Product/Visual design. I am still not sure what the difference is between those three titles. Anyway, as part of my education, I decided to attend BrainStation's full-time UX program in […]

Chris

18 April 2019

Easy fake paella recipe

Real paella is made in one pan. This recipe is "fake" because the seasoned rice is prepared separately from the other ingredients and added at the end. The advantage is that we can include a bigger variety of fresh vegetables. Feel free to vary the amounts below for your own taste.

Invest in preparation. Once you start cooking, this process goes very quickly.

Seasoned rice:

2 cups long grain white rice. (I like jasmine rice, but any will do)
1 spice bottle of saffron (about 1 gram, get the biggest amount for the least cost you can find, more is…

Chris McMahon

29 May 2020

Swift: How to Add Badges to UICollectionViews

JR

26 May 2020

Swift: How to UICollectionView Compositional Layout (List, Grid, Two Column Examples)

JR

25 May 2020

Swift: How to UICollectionView Flow Layout

JR

22 May 2020

Extract Views

JR

14 May 2020

Model View Presenter Swift

JR

10 May 2020

Be yourself as hard as you can.

Document what you do. Find your passions. Every step you take, every move you make, document it. Thanks The Police. Anyways, don’t start asking for help and someone to save you, before you even tried anything. I was reading this great piece from Derek Sivers, about showing success before asking for help. I believe it’sContinue a ler "Be yourself as hard as you can."

dwildt

8 May 2020

Importing Excel 365 CSVs with Ruby on OSX

Up until 2016, Excel for the Mac provided a handy CSV export format called “Windows CSV”, which used iso-8859-1/Windows-1252 encoding. It was reliable, handled simple extended characters like degree signs, and could be read in Ruby with code like: Unfortunately, support for this format was dropped in Excel 365. Many RiskAssess data files were in […]

James

5 May 2020

How to build a custom Scroll View Tab Control

JR

4 May 2020