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Designing Windows software: Measuring vertical spacing for Windows Phone apps

Spend any amount of time designing a Windows Phone app and you'll discover that 12 is the magical number of pixels in the horizontal grid. But what about vertical spacing?

January 17, 2012 by Geof Harries in Design 2 comments

Making for happier customers

On our company page of this website, we talk briefly about the culture of Subvert. From listening to other people's opinions to charity donations and outsourcing tasks to delivering both speed and quality, we have a number of core beliefs that keep us on track. Something that I've been thinking about as of late is how we can make people, that is, our customers, happy.

January 11, 2012 by Geof Harries in Business 4 comments

Five years

The end of 2011 means that the fifth anniversary of Subvert is on the horizon. It's hard to believe that this company is already almost half a decade old. What started as a part-time "hobby" in our spare bedroom has grown into a full-time business that employs two staff and is soon to be supporting another person.

December 31, 2011 by Geof Harries in Business 6 comments

Our Windows Phone app, Rhythmatic, wins at the Fast Track to the Mobile App Design Challenge

Microsoft Windows Phone and Core77, an industrial design magazine, recently held the Fast Track to the Mobile App contest. The international competition asked designers to come up with business-focused apps specifically tailored for Windows Phone.

December 13, 2011 by Geof Harries in Announcements 8 comments

The reports of Windows Phone lacking in apps are greatly exaggerated

It's not fair of journalists to criticize the lack of apps for Windows Phone compared to those of Apple iOS or Android; they are doing a disservice to their readers by focusing on such a small, inaccurate "issue" of the Windows Phone user experience. Windows Phone has plenty of apps, many of the same as on other platforms, if you only search the marketplace.

November 28, 2011 by Geof Harries in Reviews 12 comments

Designing Windows software: Cut the chrome

The more Windows desktop software I design, the more I find myself being influenced by the principles of Windows Phone in my work. That doesn't mean that what I produce always looks like it belongs on a Windows Phone device, but rather it's that I translate those concepts, at a high level, to the interfaces I design.

November 23, 2011 by Geof Harries in Design

Hiring: Junior or Intermediate Developer

We are looking for a Junior or Intermediate Developer to join our team. You are a talented and enthusiastic "Jack of all trades" who lives in or is willing to re-locate to Whitehorse, Yukon. You likely excel at one core language, but are skilled in a number of other languages and web technologies because you love this stuff and are stoked to learn new things.

November 16, 2011 by Geof Harries in Announcements

Five reasons why Flik is better than built-in Windows file sharing

Last week we announced the availability of Flik, the first-ever commercial software to be wholly designed and built by Subvert. Although file sharing has come a long way with Microsoft Windows 7, we thought we could still significantly improve the experience; the result is this product.

November 2, 2011 by Geof Harries in Announcements 4 comments

Signing WPF software with an Authenticode Certificate

As we were nearing the release of our latest WPF software project, Flik, we decided to get serious and get an Authenticode Certificate for the application.

October 25, 2011 by Michael Johnson in Programming

Subvert RSS feed fixed

A month ago, one of our adoring fans (really, just someone who reads our blog) wrote to tell us that this website's RSS feed was wonky. We thought, "No way!". But then we looked ourselves. Oops. Yep, it was wonky. As in totally unreadable. Our RSS feed somehow got blowed up.

October 25, 2011 by Geof Harries in Announcements

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