If you want to build a solid maintainable app, you need to have a repeatable build and automated testing. All our projects are run with automated tools. The point of the automated tools is letting everyone know when something goes wrong, so that it can be fixed as early as possible and ensure that...
Author: Jeff Smith
Kotlin Higher Order Functions
Working through some back end Firestore code last week, and wanted to create a single query interface to my repository. The Firestore query interface doesn’t have a single query method, but rather a number of different query methods on a CollectionReference such ‘whereGreaterThan’ or ‘whereEqualTo’. Each of these CollectionReference query methods have the same...
Kotlin typealias
Type alias allows you to create an alias for any Type. Why would we want to create another name for Int or String? Its all about readability Consider that you are storing a time, or a currency amount? In java days we would store them: String amount = 250 Int elapsedTime = 120 How...
Celebrity Tipper Round 6 – Kev Joyce
In our weekly celebration celebrating the AFL season and the launch of the updated ESPNfootytips app that Seventh Beam worked on alongside Codeware and ESPN Australia, we have entered a Celebrity Tipper into the Footy Tips global competition. Each week we will be inviting various industry leaders to provide their tips for the round...
Celebrity Tipper Round 5 – Frank Arrigo – AWS
In our weekly celebration celebrating the AFL season and the launch of the updated ESPNfootytips app that Seventh Beam worked on alongside Codeware and ESPN Australia, we have entered a Celebrity Tipper into the Footy Tips global competition. Each week we will be inviting various industry leaders to provide their tips for the round...
Sharing what you love
I love where our office is, smack in the middle of Fitzroy. I love the range of cafes, bars and restaurants, but the key, as with most things, is the people. Coming out of the office last week, I saw a note attached to the handlebars of my bike. I assumed it was either...
Celebrity Tipper Round 2, Valerio Veo
In our continuing series celebrating the AFL season and the launch of the updated ESPNfootytips app that Seventh Beam worked on alongside Codeware and ESPN Australia, we have entered a Celebrity Tipper into the Footy Tips global competition. Each week we will be inviting various industry leaders to provide their tips for the round...
Celebrity Tipper Round 1, Sam Walch
To celebrate the start of the new AFL season, and the launch of the updated ESPNfootytips app, that Seventh Beam worked on, alongside Codeware and ESPN Australia, we have entered a Celebrity Tipper into the Footy Tips global competition. Each week we will be inviting various industry leaders to provide their tips for the...
Targeted Messaging
There’s an interesting approach to finding talent, hiding the job ad in response headers. A good way to target a specific audience. You’ll have to check your own logs to get the link though. ...
Is your app your business?
Just watching the 2017 Ashes between Australia and England and an ad for Domain Real Estate came on during the tea break. The interesting thing was the ad only showed their app. No web site, no phone number, no store, just get it from the app store. So for practical purposes, Domain is an...