Create a Winning iPhone / Android web app in 32 hours or Rapid App Development

The task at hand. Rapidly build an app or tool in 2 days. Deploy said app. We decided to that while the boss was out of town at a conference we would push out a new app. We were a team of two. We knew time was critical, so we knew we had to plan quickly. We didn't even have a product idea yet.

The first step

was to break out the dry erase board. I gave us 5 minutes to shout out ideas. Dumb, too long, whatever. It didn't matter, we just needed to keep the ideas coming. This avoids …more
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What not to do - 37signals Product Blog: Basecamp becomes more finger friendly

37signals Product Blog: Basecamp becomes more finger friendly. Here is a good example of not to do. 37signals is a great company, and I agree with most of what they have to say about usability and KISS. Not everyone get's it right all of the time. Please don't tout your new iOS interface then put up a video of the demonstration in a format [flash] that I can't e…more

Finally fixed the download button problem

Sorry for the delay guys, but I've had to deal with a lot of work and personal issues. It's in the latest in the github repo http://github.com/buck2769/hellaphone/tree/master
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hellaphone update

Updated hellaphone. Finally fixed the download button bug. Also a few styling improvements.
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Hellaphone Update

Some bugfixing and behind the scenes work. Replaced the old templating with HAML. Mainly because I wanted to give it a try. I like the cleanliness of it, and it is already starting to grow on me.  Searching a second time replaces the original results now. If you liked the old behavior better (it was an oversite) feel free to muck around in the application.js. It's rather easy to find.
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