JavaScript Mobile Developer

Written by Matthew Lanham on September 11, 2011 in Jobs - No Comments

At Swanify we’re making moves to be one of the leading mobile development companies in the UK, we’re a small company with big ambition, if you’ve got a desire to work in the fast paced mobile app industry with some of the biggest brands in the UK, then we may have a job just for you!

We’re currently recruiting for a Mobile Developer who has the knowledge and desire to work on cross platform mobile projects for iPhone, iPad, Android and BlackBerry, as well as having a grounding in a server side language.

Desired Skills:

- Proven commercial experience of JavaScript
- Strong working knowledge of HTML5 / CSS3
- Experience with Appcelerator Titanium, PhoneGap, BlackBerry WebWorks or other cross platform frameworks
- Experience with a server side language such as PHP or Ruby on Rails
- Ability to work within a team, or on your own

Skills that are not essential, but very desirable:

- Design / UI / UX experience
- Knowledge of native mobile development with Objective-C, Java, C or C++
- A few of your own apps out in the wild!

Key Responsibilities:

- Engage in the prototyping and discussion of new applications and ideas
- Discuss and implement best practices for design, usability, scalability and security
- Use cross platform frameworks to write apps for iPhone, iPad, Android, Blackberry
- Use a server side language to build API’s where necessary
- Build mobile apps you’ll be proud of using clean code and elegant solutions

Location

Ideally you’ll work from our office in Kirkcaldy, Scotland, but we’re also very interested in remote candidates with the right experience.

Please send a covering letter CV and portfolio to jobs@swanify.com (Strictly no agencies!)

 

Magento Mobile – Private Beta

Written by Matthew Lanham on August 27, 2010 in General - No Comments

I had an exciting email the other morning welcoming me to the private beta of Magento Mobile, can’t wait to get my hands on this as it’s going to be extremely useful for many of my clients, especially as the costs seem to be reasonably acceptable.

Here’s some first impressions:

Installation was really easy, i took the manual approach and basically had to drop in some directories and change the permissions of one folder, this also required me to refresh the cache of Magento to pickup the Mobile option in the admin area.

Designing the application seems extremely easy also, you’re basically choosing the icon displayed at the top, the main image shown and an optional background image, i customised the colours to suit the website’s palette, had a few buggy issues and had to do this more than once, but i’m sure this will be ironed out in the public release.

It’s taken the best part of 10 minutes to customise the application to suit my needs, which is extremely quick, almost feels like cheating, but i’m not complaining, it’d take me weeks to get the same functionality programming it myself.

All in all it seems like a very impressive feature to sell to prospective e-commerce clients!