http://www.zigron.com/blog Fri, 22 Aug 2008 19:19:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This week I had the pleasure to attend An Event Apart design conference. It was a great experience to hear some great presentations and learn new approaches towards design. In next few posts I will try to share all of my experiences. Starting off the best presentation of the day one ... http://www.zigron.com/blog/2008/08/22/visual-design-and-story-telling/ Mobile space is the next paradigm of computing where more and more mobile devices are getting the computational power to now host interactive native applications. Offcourse iPhone has taken a giant leap but now other devices are also catching up. Recently we spent sometime to figure out which development environment ... http://www.zigron.com/blog/2008/08/21/mobile-development-overview/ PingMyCompany.com was started with a pure and simple intention to gather more data about ourself as a firm and know about others too. I have explained it before and Rashid also shared his development story.  Now after 3 months since its launch I have witnessed a change which I was hoping to ... http://www.zigron.com/blog/2008/07/26/technology-transparency-ideas-help-you-hire-better/ We've been working in different teams for long, and have known that there are few factors like motivation, communication, flexibility etc that make better performing teams. But, we never knew the extent which we need all these to be. So ZEDCo [Zigron Education Company] organized an event where we could ... http://www.zigron.com/blog/2008/07/21/it-makes-a-real-difference-when-we-work-in-teams/ Wherever.tv was launched yesterday in SINO Consumer Electronics Show, China. It recieved great reception from both conference attendees and press. It was covered on Forbes.com , Engadget.com , PittsburghLive.com and Examiner.com Wherever.tv is a sleek new device that delivers hundreds of international TV channels straight to your television instantly over a broadband internet connection. You can ... http://www.zigron.com/blog/2008/07/10/wherevertv-is-launched/ For some time I have noticed that in blogosphere, User Xperience has mostly been associated with Web 2.0 companies and hardware devices, well actually only one hardware i.e iPhone. So I decided to go out and see where I can find innovation in UX apart from the web. On this great ... http://www.zigron.com/blog/2008/07/01/user-xperience-technology-real-world/ Three years ago I was coding in simple PHP and never heard of any frameworks then after one year I started using frameworks in javascript i.e prototype etc. Soon I realize working in framework makes your life easier, your code is organized, standardized and most importantly your development is fast. ... http://www.zigron.com/blog/2008/06/28/why-we-use-symfony-framework/ It was one fine morning, when I came to office and started my work on ZEPRS [an under development project], suddenly phone RANG, I picked. Who is this? I am here, sounded familiar to me, I thought for a moment and realized that my CEO is on other side. Yes ... http://www.zigron.com/blog/2008/06/20/the-story-behind-the-development-of-pingmycompanycom/ JSF is really nice, but developers sometimes feel suffocated because there aren’t enough components. Recently I ran into a problem of displaying a list of images in grid or you could say in form of rows and columns and being able to select one of them using radio buttons. I ... http://www.zigron.com/blog/2008/06/18/image-selection-in-jsf/ On 24th May few of Zigron's team member went for hiking trip to Miranjani, the plan was to go to Nathia Gali on Saturday and to have a night stay over there and the next day [Sunday] to go for a hike and then come back. We had an amazing trip ... http://www.zigron.com/blog/2008/06/12/company-trip/