Development

(A demo app accompanying this post is available, with reusable parts easily extractable.) If you've ever written an iOS app, you'll know just how easy it is for your...

This is an updated version of a post I made in early 2013 that proved popular. This update reworks the solution from Objective-C to Swift 2.0. The code inline below is...

As part of my induction to Storm ID as a Graduate Web Developer, I have had the chance to work on a small personal project to help me learn more about the technologies and...

Innovation In March 2014 we carried out an employee survey. The overall aim of the survey was to collect anonymous feedback from the team that would help us to continue to...

Development kits are the glue for developers When I was being recruited by Storm, one of the first things we discussed was their SDK for developers to use on big projects...

There's a couple of anti-patterns that I've noticed in my own code. Private methods are a code smell Private methods are not inherently bad, but they are a sign that you...

Enabling digital public services for local government Storm ID has been busy over the past few months developing a new tool specifically for Local Authorities. With much of...

Marketing Edinburgh is the official destination marketing organisation dedicated to promoting Edinburgh as a place to visit, live, work, study and invest. The organisation,...

What is it? Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) is a technology for allowing devices to communicate in a way that is highly optimized for conserving battery power. BLE devices...

Following Storm IDs user experience work on the development of the DirectScot prototype, a Scottish citizens portal and the development of a Business Portal for Scotland, the...