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Gartner: Mobile apps can’t be created fast enough. What’s the solution?

Published July 20, 2015 by Paul Lefebvre

Speaking at one of their conferences, Gartner principal research analyst Adrian Leow said last week that enterprises are increasingly finding it difficult to build all the mobile apps they need. The demand for mobile apps is increasing far faster than the supply of mobile developers can create them and it’s only going to get worse. This is clearly a problem.

There are three possible solutions to this problem:

Find a way to decrease the demand of mobile apps. (Good luck with that one.)
Increase the number of mobile developers.
Decrease the time it takes to build mobile apps.

Solutions 2 and 3 are not mutually exclusive. You could potentially do both. Adrian Leow even points to the solution when he suggests that developers use rapid mobile app development tools. These tools can provide solution 3, but they don’t create necessarily create more developers.

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XojoTalk 015: Type my password like an animal

Published July 1, 2015 by Paul Lefebvre

In this episode of XojoTalk, Paul talks with Justin Elliott, IT and Development Manager at Penn State University.

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Apple Combines iOS and Mac Developer Programs

Published June 16, 2015 by Paul Lefebvre

One of the things announced at WWDC last week (that was not announced in the WWDC Keynote) is that Apple has now combined the separate iOS and Mac Developer Programs into the single Apple Developer Program. So what does this mean for Xojo developers?

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XojoTalk 014: Software Maniacs

Published June 16, 2015 by Paul Lefebvre

In this episode of XojoTalk, Paul talks with Ken Whitaker, the Managing Director of Leading Software Maniacs, an expert in leadership, project management and Agile development.

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Xojo Wars: May The Source Be With You

Published June 7, 2015 by Paul Lefebvre

Last week we kicked of the Xojo Wars community battle with a webinar describing what it is and the prizes you can win. Here’s more information for those that could not attend or have not watched the recording.

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XojoTalk 013: Hockey Programmer

Published June 2, 2015 by Paul Lefebvre

In this episode of XojoTalk, Paul talks with Mike Cotrone, owner of Intelligent Visibility, makers of some powerful networking apps that are all created with Xojo.

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Using combit List & Label with Xojo Windows Apps

Published May 27, 2015 by Paul Lefebvre

Thanks to some assistance from William Yu and the folks at combit, we now have a sample project that shows you how to use List & Label with Xojo. List & Label is a Windows (.NET-based) reporting tool that can create some sophisticated reports.

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XojoTalk 012: Shipping is a feature

Published May 26, 2015 by Paul Lefebvre

In this episode of XojoTalk, Paul talks with Paul Levine, maker of EverWeb, the Mac (and soon Windows) Web site builder.

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What is Raspberry Pi?

Published May 14, 2015 by Paul Lefebvre

The announcement at XDC 2015 of upcoming Xojo support for Raspberry Pi was greeted with enthusiastic applause. But after the keynote, I had several people come up to me and admit that they did not know what this Raspberry Pi is, so I thought I’d take a moment to give some background.

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Preparing for a 64-bit World

Published May 8, 2015 by Paul Lefebvre

Xojo already creates 64-bit apps for iOS. Soon, it will also create 64-bit apps for other platforms. I, for one, welcome our new 64-bit Overlords. After all, they’ll be bringing you increased performance and increased memory! Even better, there is not much you’ll have to do to create 64-bit versions of your existing Xojo apps.

UPDATE October 2015: Xojo Builds 64-bit Apps Now

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