Meet Emal
Here we are with yet another blog post in our interview series. This time, we'd like to introduce you to one of our consultants, Emal Sakwall.Name, Company, Title, CityMy name is Emal Sakwall. I live...
View ArticleLottie Animations in Xamarin
We do a lot of work with apps and Xamarin here at Infinity. We’ve seen that adding animations to our Xamarin.iOS or Xamarin.Android app makes for a more appealing user experience. But if those...
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Stitching up a better monster
The nice thing with knowing a technology well, is that you can create a lot of nifty things. The nicer thing with knowing a healthy smattering of technologies, is that with the right amount of cunning...
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Announcing our TPC 2017 app!
Infinity loves Perl and we're happy to announce our involvement in The Perl Conference 2017. Infinity is proud to be a sponsor for the conference, and pleased to provide the Perl in a Day workshop by...
View ArticleInfinity at Beer City Code
This past weekend I visited Grand Rapids, Michigan for the first ever Beer City Code on the campus of Calvin College. I took a class on how to write .NET applications on a Mac, saw some great talks,...
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Azure Automation Made Easy
So, what is Azure? Azure is Microsoft’s cloud solution. It’s a collection of services used to build, deploy, and manage applications. We do a lot of work with Azure here at Infinity. The great thing...
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Meet Eric Wagoner
In this latest post in our interview series, we’d like to introduce you to our own Eric Wagoner, the magnificent man of many talents. He is one of our senior developers.Name, Company, Title, CityEric...
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So much #speakerlife!
This summer I had the wonderful opportunity to represent Infinity and speak at a number of conferences. Earlier in the year I was doing a much better job of keeping up with writing up my experiences at...
View ArticleMeet Julie Vo
Meet Julie Vo. In this latest post in our interview series, we’d like to introduce you to our own Julie Vo, the newest member of the Infinity family. She is on our Consulting team as a project...
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Writing Infrastructure as Code
When we developed the TPC 2017 mobile application, we wanted to create a repeatable process for delivering white-labeled mobile applications in this space. This new delivery model did not end with the...
View ArticleJSON Schema, shortly
JSON Schema is a neat way to describe or prescribe structural expectations of JSON documents (or, indeed, any data structure, let it be a JavaScript plain object or the equivalent in another language)....
View ArticleTwenty Thoughts
Yesterday marked our 20th anniversary.It’s been an awesome ride and we’re grateful for the opportunity to have enjoyed every moment with so many wonderful partners, clients, and colleagues. This...
View ArticleReduce and Conquer
In an ecosystem riddled with large, portentous frameworks, Redux is a refreshingly ascetic little store management system. Driven more by its functional programming-inspired tenets than supporting...
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Meet Paul Zolnierczyk
Meet Paul. In this latest post in our interview series, we’d like to introduce you to our own BubbaZ, aka Paul Zolnierczyk.Name, Company, Title, CityI’m Paul, a mobile developer and team lead here at...
View ArticleSystem monitoring: summoning the beast of a thousand eyes
System monitoring. A pretty vital part of any network management. That is, unless you're one of the few who live for the visceral thrill of flying blind. For the rest of us partial to our lack of heart...
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Taking up the Slack with RocketChat
Here at Infinity Interactive, we are an entirely remote team. As such, high availability of our communication tools is paramount to our success. Our daily methods of communication include JIRA, email,...
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Jiu-Jitsu of project management
About seven months ago, I started practicing Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, a grappling art founded in Brazil. Immediately after, I began comparing everything to it. My kids started making fun of me: “Everything...
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The World of Cloud Functions
What are they?Cloud functions are a great way to run small programmatic services in the cloud. They are easy to create and use, are very secure, and need little maintenance. They even scale on-demand...
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Uno Platform
In the beginning, there were iOS, Android, and the Web. Entirely separate platforms that had to be developed as such.Then, along came Xamarin. Developers could write iOS and Android apps using a single...
View ArticleRendering a (mega) PDF in a Xamarin Android app
Even on mobile, sometimes you need to show people a PDF. In your Xamarin Android app, for most situations, having the user download the document to view it outside of the app using Android's native...
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