Skip to content

Category: Tips

sort code tips and tricks

10 Universal Truths About Starting A Consulting Business

10 Universal Truths About Starting A Consulting Business

Published September 28, 2017 by Geoff Perlman

Are you tired of working for someone else or simply ready to start your own company? I founded and have been successfully running Xojo for over 20 years and prior to that I was a consultant for many years. I can attest to the importance of getting a business set up right from the beginning. Whether you are a developer looking to start a software consulting business or an entrepreneur looking into any other kind of consulting, some truths are universal.

Getting off on the right foot means your business will be that much closer to being in the 50% that will survive its 5th year. Here are ten truths for starting your own software consulting business:

Continue reading10 Universal Truths About Starting A Consulting Business
Comments closed

An Insider’s Top 10 Code-Free Tips To Being A Skilled Programmer

Published September 13, 2017 by Geoff Perlman

At Xojo we’re a company of programmers who work with programmers and after 21 years or so, we like to think we know our stuff. In honor of International Programmer’s Day today, we’d like to offer our experience in the form of a listicle 😉

Whether you’re new to programming or an experienced developer, there are some things you’ll just never find in a reference manual. We’re passionate about writing good code and these are our 10 tips to be a better programmer.

Continue readingAn Insider’s Top 10 Code-Free Tips To Being A Skilled Programmer
Comments closed

How To Record Video Demos for your iOS Apps

Published September 5, 2017 by Geoff Perlman

If you are making commercial iOS apps, you’ll want a video demo. Video demos can be added to the app store and are great to use in multi-platform marketing and promotions. Keep in mind, a demo is typically short, definitely less than 1 minute and should highlight the core benefits of your app.

For some apps, you can just record the iPhone or iPad screen with another camera especially if you feel you need to show an actual finger doing the tapping. In most cases, however, that’s not necessary and a actual screenshot video would be more effective.

Continue readingHow To Record Video Demos for your iOS Apps
Comments closed

Pro Tip: Inserting Text Quickly in a Xojo iOS App

Published August 30, 2017 by Geoff Perlman

Manipulating text can be a time-consuming operation. I recently found myself with the need to insert text in various places in a large text document. Normally I would use a regular expression to solve this problem, but this is an iOS app and Xojo doesn’t have regular expressions available for iOS just yet. So I wrote some code to loop through the document and find and replace. Then I wrote some better code to do it a lot faster.

Continue readingPro Tip: Inserting Text Quickly in a Xojo iOS App
Comments closed
5 Tips For Setting Up Your Home Office for Sanity and Productivity

5 Tips For Setting Up Your Home Office for Sanity and Productivity

Published August 16, 2017 by Alyssa Foley

These days it seems everyone is working from home at least a few days a week. That is great for us humans and our home planet too. Your commute across the hall is quick and traffic-free, which is amazing for your personal stress-level and the local air quality. And your home office is likely to make you more productive and happier in your job, if set up right.

As more of us are working from home more often, it’s important to set some basic guidelines for your job and your sanity.

Here are 5 tips to help you set up your home office right, along with a peek into the Xojo team’s own offices.

Continue reading5 Tips For Setting Up Your Home Office for Sanity and Productivity
Comments closed

Raise Your Events The Right Way

Published August 9, 2017 by Norman Palardy

The other day I was asked: “Dumb question of the day! An Event Definition can have a Return Type defined. What is the syntax for RaiseEvent to make use of the Return Type?”

But this isn’t a dumb question at all since there are actually two valid ways to do this. I find one more obvious than the other. Here are both solutions so you can decide for yourself:

Continue readingRaise Your Events The Right Way
Comments closed

First Impressions Matter: 8 Surefire User Interface Design Tips

Published July 20, 2017 by Paul Lefebvre

Your app’s user interface makes the first impression with your user and is vitally important to its success. With today’s modern development tools, it’s easy to create great user interfaces for your app.

Here are 8 proven tips to help ensure you create a user interface that your users will love.

Continue readingFirst Impressions Matter: 8 Surefire User Interface Design Tips
Comments closed