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Quality Assurance. A job title that you see more and more on top of the paycheques. Also called a tester, or technical tester. Or just QA. Just like all other job titles, the word itself does not really say what the job implies. Let alone what tje importance is of a QA within a project. So it is time to dive into this.

I have seen some funny images posted about having an electric meter style watch with those rotating numbers, combining the retro feeling of those plates with the modern design of a digital watch.

Yesterday the Dutch government asked people to work from home whenever possible until the end of the month, in the battle against the Corona virus. Many other countries already have such a measure in place, or will do soon. Most people have worked from home for one or a few days, but working from home for a longer period of time can be challenging.

Sometimes you see can see those visually pleasing jumping bars when listening to music, which jump higher when the music gets louder. Usually the lefter bars resemble the lower frequencies (the bass), and the righter bars the higher freqs (the treble).

Several months ago, we were tasked to implement a built-in program guide a built-in program guide (also called an EPG) in one of our Android TV apps. It should list all the channels from top to bottom, with the programs on the channels laid out from left to right on a timeline. There are some apps on Google Play, which have a similar program guide built-in, so I was hoping that there is a library or a Leanback component which we could build upon.

The Jetpack Navigation component is a very welcome add-on that makes the development of Android apps so much easier. No more committing Fragment transactions, and no more hassle to make sure that the up- and back button give the user the expected experience, not to mention the trouble of having to maintain a concise back stack for deep links and finally: How did we survive for so long without that visual navigation graph?

Apple tried to offer a head start on writing SwiftUI apps by providing us with some very nice looking tutorials. The documentation however is still severely lacking and the framework still seems in full development, noticeable by broken/missing functionality and some pretty big changes in the past betas. To fill some of the gaps in SwiftUI I wrote my own library for displaying sheets which gave me a deeper understanding of SwiftUI. In this article I will share some of my findings.

When we founded Egeniq, almost 9 years ago, we had no experience developing iOS (or Mac) apps. So next to finding clients for our agency, we invested a lot of time in gaining some crucial experience.

We decided to build an app for AXIS security cameras. At the time there was no official AXIS app available in the app store and the few 3rd party apps that existed were of very low quality and didn’t offer a lot of functionality. AXIS cameras have a very nice and complete HTTP API which makes it an excellent target for a full featured 3rd party client.

Initially conversational commerce revolved mainly around chatbots, but with the proliferation of smart speakers the 'conversation' part in conversational commerce is becoming more natural, so these days conversational commerce is (according to its Wikipedia definition): "commerce-commerce via various means of conversation", with live chat, messaging, chatbots and virtual assistants as primary examples.