Arun Venkatesan Hello.

Organized productivity with Wunderlist and OneNote

I like making to-do lists. I just never get around to doing most of the tasks, especially when the list includes everything going on in my life. I experimented with...

Hello Ghost

The very first post of this blog started with how I ended up building a static blog using Jekyll. While I enjoyed learning these new tools and customizing my Jekyll...

The brief history of Lead Dog (part 4)

Backend as a Service I initially looked into hosting my own version of Parse, but it was obviously a giant black box with a complex system I would never be...

The brief history of Lead Dog (part 3)

It's the fall of 2015, and up until now I had only completed the login/registration and team creation features. I had to make a decision on the backend soon....

The brief history of Lead Dog (part 2)

Why did it take so long? I initially planned to have a beta ready for the spring season which was 4 months away. As with most of my side projects,...

The brief history of Lead Dog (part 1)

A few years ago we decided to join a corporate softball league at my company. I made it to exactly 2 games that season. In addition to not getting enough...

Writing code the Swift way

The transition to Swift has gotten mixed reactions from the team. It is not easy to get started with a new programming language, but since Apple continues to maintain a...

Migrating to Swift

With the release of Swift 1.2 beta a few weeks back, I’ve decided to officially transition my team to start developing with Swift. Back in November, I transitioned...

Javascript frameworks

It wasn't until the end of my second week into the development of the admin portal, that it really dawned on me how much things had changed. In the mobile...

Back to web development

Back when I decided to completely focus on mobile app development, words like jQuery and HTML5 were just becoming mainstream. In fact, my first try at an app was really...