Maybe it’s the spring air and the budding trees. Maybe it’s the longer daylight hours. Maybe you watched too many home organization TV shows when it was too cold to go outside. Whatever the reason, there is something about this time of year that makes us want a fresh start…

As modern reactive front ends have begun to converge on effective module patterns and universal approaches to common application paradigms, it’s not uncommon to see much of the variance between front ends come from how they expose and implement their given style guide. The implementation and the delivery of application…

What is CarPlay? CarPlay is an Apple car integration standard that allows you to display content from your iPhone onto your compatible car head unit and control your phone. Common uses for this include casting music from services such as Spotify or Apple Music or for trip navigation using a map application. As…

Mobile development mostly deals with 2 platforms: iOS and Android. There are distinct ecosystems for both platforms — each has its own languages (Java and Kotlin for Android, Objective-C, and Swift for iOS), its own standard environment (Android Studio for Android, Xcode for iOS), its own app architectures, app stores…

There are many articles and blog posts on the internet that attempt to advise readers on how to choose a software development company. Almost all of them discuss the traits and attributes that make one vendor superior to another. The difficulty with this approach is that a vendor’s ability is…

Most agile product teams have heard the concepts around using an MVP to learn about what customers want, Lean Startup style, but the process of defining an MVP to fulfill those goals often proves to be easier said than done. Let it be reiterated that an MVP is not needed…

Carpenters have lots of tools to pick from. Drills, impact drivers, circular saws, and miter saws; each tool may be really good for a specific purpose and a great carpenter will know when to use each one. …

What is Machine Learning? Machine learning is a subset of AI that is concerned with algorithms that can improve through experience. Experience in this case generally translates to being fed lots of data. What’s more interesting than what machine learning is though, is what it can do. Beating humans at board games, driving cars…

Want to get the most out of your dev management process? This article covers some of the best practices and methodologies SitePen uses to accomplish enterprise-level development goals. We’ll start with some basics on Agile methodology, then we’ll provide practical info about how our experience has culminated in a lean…