PBN Five Questions With: Robert Blackburn
It’s always great to see Blackburn Labs in the news. When our applications get featured in news segments, like the app for Brigham & Women’s Hospital was, it is very exciting and validating of our hard work. This time, not only was our work discussed in the news,...
Recognized By Governor
As a Rhode Island based company, Blackburn Labs is well positioned to take advantage of the many life sciences organizations that are based in the area. Being within driving distance of Boston, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and many other leading locations in...
Blackburn Labs Earns Recognition on Clutch as a Leading Software Developer 2019
Since 2015, we have developed and delivered quality development services to both big and small clients across the globe at a reasonable cost. We understand that having a functional and aesthetically-pleasing mobile app is a valuable and necessary tool for every...
We Helped Make News with Innovation Stopping Heart Disease
We are excited to see that a project we have been heavily involved with for over a year has made the news this week! Watch it here. It has been an amazing opportunity to be involved in the #OneBraveIdea and working with world leading physicians at BWH. Not only has...
Inline developer console for iOS apps, without a Mac!
Need to add a developer console to the iPhone or iPad mobile safari browser without a Mac? Apple provides a great set of developer tools. However, to use them you need to plug your iPhone or iPad into a Mac. There are times when this simply is not feasible or...
Hasbro-Hackathon
I had the pleasure of being in a team with Doug Hopkins (@combatadvantage) and Steve Weed (@sweed84) at this weekend’s 2014 Hasbro Hackathon. Our small team won in our category! I'm very proud of what we accomplished in such a short time. Thank you to Hasbro for...
Adaptive Website Made Easy
A few years ago a colleague of mine and fellow developer, Craig Verrastro, invited his daughter’s music teacher to come present to my department. Why? Because he was seeing impaired, and we wanted the team to see what browsing the web (especially our own applications)...
Quick and easy performance timing for your HTML5 page
When I was a teenager I had a job at Burger King. If you have never noticed it before, there is a large digital clock next to the drive through window, which tells the employee how long the cusotmer has been waiting for their order. Measuring drive through wait time...
Secure your Java Spring app with PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer
This is a trick that I have used many times which I first learned about on Mkyong.com – one of my favorite Java/Spring/Hibernate resources. Just about any application will need to connect to external resources like databases, web services, file servers, and the like....