[ By Jeff Hipp on June 29, 2010 ]

Faking a print piece from a flat working file

Imagine that you just got done comping a print piece and now it''s time to show the client via web conferencing.  You want it to look as real as you can, but something is missing - it looks too flat.  Here's a simple & fast way to suggest what it will look like when actually printed.

[ By Jessica Behal on May 27, 2010 ] 2

NewCity is excited to introduce Nomad’s GSMA mobile apps

 

 

Nomad Mobile Guides™, a spin-off company of NewCity, is excited to introduce quality, interactive mobile guides for iPhone and iTouch users with the new successful release of the Great Smoky Mountains applications, developed in cooperation with the Great Smoky Mountains Association and National Park Service.

Two different applications are available for visitors to enjoy.

[ By Kevin Cupp on April 30, 2010 ]

Tools of the Trade - Development

"Every craftsman starts his or her journey with a basic set of good-quality tools. A woodworker might need rules, gauges, a couple of saws, some good planes, fine chisels, drills and braces, mallets, and clamps. These tools will be lovingly chosen, will be built to last, will perform specific jobs with little overlap with other tools, and, perhaps most importantly, will feel right in the budding woodworker's hands ... the tools become conduits from the craftsman's brain to the finished product—they have become extensions of his or her hands." – Excerpt from The Pragmatic Programmer

The development team (geeks) at NewCity is always on the lookout for the best tools to get the job done. And since geeks like to know what other geeks are using, I thought I'd share our top development tools we use every day.

[ By Jeff Hipp on April 22, 2010 ]

Making the Tweetsie Website 3-D!

NewCity has a talented bunch of people working here.  Many of us have hidden talents that don't always get used on a day-to-day basis.  One of mine is sculpture and paper sculpture.  NewCity concepted and designed a 3-D paper train which was presented to Tweetsie R.R. Theme Park

[ By John Williams on April 9, 2010 ] 1

Be Wrong

Here's a secret: I'm often wrong. I'm wrong many times a day. In fact, like most programmers I am so often wrong I have automated processes that tell me just how wrong I am. That's a pretty heavy frequency of wrong-ness.

I have (with some difficulty) come to terms with the fact that I am often wrong. It's an important step on the way to being right. In his book iPhone SDK Development, Bill Dudney describes writing software like this:

1. First your code won't compile.
2. Then, it will…