Building DROdio.com, live
You'll see the messy reality of building live: the typos, the 'wait, why isn't this working?' moments, and how to recover when things go sideways — which is exactly what happens when you're coding solo.
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Front-End Developer
Practical writing, videos, lessons, and shipped work from Daniel R. Odio, selected for Front-End Developer.
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Native Apps vs. HTML5: The Smoking Gun
You've been telling yourself you can ship a great mobile app with just web tech because it's faster and you already know it. Facebook tried that with world-class engineers and users revolted over the sluggish experience—so unless you're okay being slow and second-rate, you need to bite the bullet and go native.
Video from iPhone and iPad Developer Night in Sunnyvale
You get a front-row seat to how experienced iOS developers present their work and handle technical questions — the kind of real-world problem-solving you don't see in tutorials. If you've been stuck figuring out how to level up beyond basic apps, watching how these developers think through challenges might unstick you.
Hacker News iPhone App Live
You'll learn how this builder stitched together RSS feeds, push notifications, and geo-tagging into a native iPhone app without touching Xcode — a pattern you can steal when your next build gets stuck on mobile deployment.
The State of Mobile event at KickLabs
You'll catch how experienced mobile leads at Google Maps, Dropbox, and Bump think about architecture and team structure—the kind of perspective that helps you avoid the classic mistakes when your prototype needs to scale.
Augmented Reality by Siamak Ashrafi & Mobile Energy Consumption by Frank Maker
You've probably killed your app's battery life without realizing it — this meetup recap surfaces the energy-consumption traps that bite mobile developers and shows you the AR implementation choices you'll face when you try to build something visual.
Balsamiq Rocks Mockups
You've probably wasted hours fighting bloated prototyping tools that slow you down — Balsamiq strips away the nonsense so you can crank out mockups in minutes, not days.
What Type of Credit Card?
You've probably built a checkout form and asked for card type because every example does — but this breaks down why that's cargo-cult coding and how to auto-detect it instead. It's a wake-up call about the real cost of copying patterns without questioning them, especially when you're stuck debugging someone else's lazy choices.