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Mobile App Launch Checklist

We created this resource to solve one basic problem: Once you go through all the work of building an app, how can you be sure to nail the landing? In the rush to get an app out, many developers can forget to tag releases or lose depository information that simply needed to be earmarked for a future update. There are some final security measures that need to be taken to protect your app. Whether it’s due to excitement or fatigue, it happens.

Friend or Foe?

In today’s world of readily available apps, whether on your phone or a cloud service, consumers do not expect a lot of training before starting to use them. Apps are designed to be intuitive and lead you through them in the way that you would expect them to work – as it relates to the purpose of the app. Same is true with analytical applications. The best ones are intuitive – they look familiar and are intuitive to navigate.

The difficulty of Memory Profiling in PHP

Did you ever have a memory leak in your PHP program and couldn't locate the exact source in your code? From my experience with memory profiling in PHP, this is caused by the PHP engine and how it manages memory. PHP uses a custom memory manager on top of the native memory management in C for multiple reasons...

BigQuery in June: a new data type, new data import formats, and finer cost controls

This is the first installment in a monthly review of recently-released BigQuery features. While our rather active release notes do contain concise but actionable information, we’ve heard from some of our users that they’d love a little more information on these updates and what they mean in a bigger picture. This month, we present a number of practical new features, primarily focused on data types and data file formats.

5 Reasons Your App Crashes and How to Fix Them

In 2016, on the eve of the Black Friday sales frenzy in the US, a research firm called Apteligent released a report estimating how much money firms could lose if their apps crashed on the big day. The report tallied up the amount of money spent by retail app customers on Black Friday the previous year and worked out what would happen if every customer experienced at least one crash during peak hours.

Visualizing Distributions

In my last blog post, I finished up how to create maps with your data using either point, area or flow representation. Today we’re starting with a new topic focusing in on how to visualize the distribution of data. You may remember from my “Mapping data to visualization usage” post that one way to break down the usage of chart is to divide them into these four groups: Comparison, Composition, Distribution and Relationship.

Bugfender Outage - What Happened and What We've Done

I’d like to offer a heartfelt apology to all of our users who have experienced any downtime and issues with Bugfender recently. We’re really sorry these have occured and for all of the inconveniences they may have caused you. We understand that many people rely on Bugfender to help them in their daily duties and that our service has let you down.