Mal Curtis

Mal Curtis

Mal Curtis works at Learnable as a Rails developer. He spent most of his 10 years in Web Development as a PHP developer, but saw the light. You can check out some of his projects at GitHub

Mal Curtis

In part one of this mini series, we tackled the question of implementing a slider when you want to create a range of values, not just one. If you haven’t read part one, you’ll be feeling a... Read More
Continuing his development of an iOS Range Slider, Mal Curtis takes his project so far, and improves it by allowing the code to respond to changes in the slider values and checking usability against... Read More
One of the commonly used iOS controls is the slider control. It’s a great, all purpose slider, that allows you to quickly swipe your finger along the screen to set a value. Things get a little... Read More
 
Mal Curtis of Learnable fame flexes his iOS skills in the making of a wicked range slider. Not content with the standard slider, Mal shows us how to create a slider that will control not one but two... Read More
Have you met the developers of all the Gems you’re using? Do you know their personal stance on security and whether they use strong passwords or reuse their pet’s name on every website? Artists... Read More
Loading screens are a necessity of digital life. It’s important to provide a user with feedback when you start a process for which your application has to wait for a response. If a user presses a... Read More
Mal Curtis explains the importance, nay necessity, of loading screens in the digital world. Using the basic iOS development skills you have learned so far at BuildMobile, here you can step through a... Read More
 
The moment you start writing code that grows beyond a few classes, you start to realise that you need a way to group files and logic. While this is easy to do, it can become quite difficult to... Read More
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Sometimes the functionality of a library or set of classes that you’re working with is 99% perfect for the job, but the last 1% requires modification of some of the core assumptions made in the... Read More
 
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Twitter has announced the release of 'Annotations' — a way of adding additional metadata to your tweets. Mal discusses this new feature and how it could both create and relieve headaches for... Read More
 
Facebook's soon-to-be-released PHP "code transformer," dubbed HipHop, promises performance gains of up to 50% by transforming PHP source code into compiled C++. Mal gives us the lowdown on this... Read More