February 26th, 2013
Here’s a little gem that we created ourselves when translating the Werkstatt-App: We took the common approach on translating our the interface using NSLocalizedString() and it’s friends. But that was not possible for the app’s contents. To store any data payload in the app we rely on JSON. It’s clean, concise – not as verbose as XML – and there’s [...]
February 22nd, 2013
Yesterday we released a big update to our Werkstatt app that we built in partnership with German publisher Motor Presse. The Werkstatt app is now also available in English – as a matter of fact, this is now the app’s new default language. In English it’s called “Repair”. To make it ready for the international markets, we also included a [...]
January 21st, 2013
A little over a year ago I finally decided to quit my old job and start over, co-founding Bowstreet in the process. And each day I realize that I’ve made the right decision. Running a company is hard. But it’s also lots of fun! In my old position a was pretty much a Java middleware programmer. I’d always watch out [...]
January 14th, 2013
We love to give back to the community which brings up so many great ideas and projects. Check out our latest projects on GitHub: grails-required-parameters: We build a lot of Grails based web applications. Most of the time we were missing a feature to require certain parameters to be set when calling an action, especially when building an API. So [...]
December 23rd, 2012
Are you a software developer, experienced in mobile development, based in the Stuttgart area? Are you looking for exciting new projects using all of what’s possible in mobile to date? We might just be looking for you. We have a couple of great projects and opportunities planned for 2013 and we couldn’t be happier to finally say this out loud: [...]