Steve has been driving the process for years to create a mobile GrokApp – and lately, I’ve been the bottleneck (truth be told) due to “other stuff.” However, now is the time.
Sure, you can always view GraniteGrok with a browser on your phone or tablet. That said, we want to go “native” – Android and then iOS. While I spent 40 years in the computer industry as a software engineer, I don’t have the mobile app skills necessary to meet our own standards. Project manage it to be sure, but not start pounding out code (still on my bucket list to start writing once again – but blogging always seems to take precedence. Perhaps someday, but not now.
So, take a look at this proposal. It is built around the idea of an “iterative enhancement” process – start small and proceed with small incremental steps. I’ve always used this process during my career, even before RAD (or other aligned processes) came into being. Have we covered everything? Certainly not – but we can start. And start we shall.
To peruse the document, hover over the page, and the navigation bar will appear.
I know that a lot of our readers are software engineers so we are offering this first to them as well. Perhaps a group of you (many of you are long-term readers and have “met” each other in the comments over the years) will get together. After all, you, too, are being “invested” in the success of GraniteGrok as well, right?
We also will be posting this on UpWork as well to see if there are interested folks there. We had actually posted the project back earlier in the year but I grew concerned that we hadn’t done our homework well enough so I put a stop to it. Now we’re ready.
Note: Steve and I also wish to thank a couple of anonymous donors that have provided the “seed corn” to get this off the dock. They’ve been patient given that we started this process earlier in the year. They’ve made this possible!
