Heart Rate + ResearchKit Tutorial Published!
10 December 2015
Back in May, I had the opportunity to write a tutorial helping developers get started using ResearchKit, Apple’s new framework to facilitate medical research on iOS devices. The response to the first tutorial and to ResearchKit in general has been really encouraging thus far: over 100,000 users are participating in…
Using ResearchKit for Medical Research in iOS Apps
27 May 2015
At an Apple event back in March, Tim Cook impressed the crowd with the new MacBook and Apple Watch. But for many listeners, the most exciting development was the announcement of ResearchKit. ResearchKit is an open-source framework that enables iOS developers to make medical research apps. It contains easy-to-use modules…
dokku: a mini-Heroku on your VPS
17 February 2015
This is part 1 of a 3 part tutorial: Part 1 – dokku: a mini-Heroku on your VPS (this post) Part 2 – Heroku-like WordPress deployments with git and dokku Part 3 – Advanced WordPress configuration on dokku (coming soon) As a developer, I love git based deployments. They take…
Client Feature: Muslim Advocates
30 January 2015
Normally when clients come to Exygy, they have a design in mind that they want us to implement, something they want built from the ground up. With the Muslim Advocates nonprofit organization, however, there were some budget issues to consider. Given what they had to work with, we decided the best…
Building a custom Angular application inside WordPress using Ruby on Rails, MongoDB and Amazon S3
16 January 2015
WordPress is a very powerful blogging platform, but it has its limitations when it comes to using it to build powerful custom applications. Different approaches are available to solve this problem – creating custom applications (PHP, Ruby on Rails) that would be accessible from another url (usually a subdomain) or using an iframe…