Salman Suhail - Salman Suhail

My Recommended Reading List for Product Managers

2016 is the year that I have been fortunate enough to be working as a product manager within the technology & startup space for a decade. During this time I have had the opportunity to work on a variety of products and business models,

One week into Android: Thoughts and Ruminations from an ex Fanboy.

With the iPhone, it feels like Apple took the existing concept of the mobile phone and evolved it to become the internet connected iPhone we know today. With Android, Google took the laptop computer, and shrunk it down to fit into the palm of

iPad

UX Wireframing on the go with iDraw

Turns out unless you spend several hours beforehand preparing yourself and have a consistent and fast internet connection, the iPad is a terrible device for writing any code. On the plus side though, it turns out to be a wonderful wireframing tool, though you'll

Migrating from Wordpress, to Middleman, to Ghost.

Lots of changes on PerpetuallyBeta.com! I finally decided that I was absolutely sick of dealing with the mess that was Wordpress under the hood*, and given the multitude of awesome options that have been released recently - I finally decided that this website

PYXL Behind the Scenes: From Sketchbook to iOS app

Since my first iOS app PYXL has been live for a little under a month now, I thought it would be fun (and possibly interesting to other people) to do a little development retrospective, going through some of my notes, sketches, and early builds

Announcing PYXL - the Launch of my first iOS Game!

Im very happy to announce that after several months of polishing & procrastination, I have finally released my first iOS game! Developed in my spare time after work, this was a project I originally took on in an effort to sharpen up my programming

Tools

The Fragmentation of Web Application Development (aka Usability for Programmers)

I have recently felt the need to spend my free time getting back to my computer science and engineering roots i.e. my "maker" roots as Paul Graham would call them. Having spent the last four years working in the field of

Slicing and Dicing DC / MD / VA Area Funding Data Provided by Foster.ly

Foster.ly (one of the leading entrepreneurial communities in the greater DC area) just released an absolute treasure trove of data aggregating all of the individual funding deals in the region. Released as a Google Doc full of raw data, I thought it would

Art

Stage Fright

Just a little weekend Character Sketching. Drawn on the iPad using Procreate. Total Time approximately 1 hour.

Game Dev

Build your iOS App on Device Without Paying for an Apple Developer Program - And Do It Now.

Having listened to the awesome panel on the "State of Mobile Innovation" at a recent DC Tech meetup - I was convinced that as an independent game developer - I should incorporate at least an LLC before launching my game (to protect

Lessons

Startup Weekends are Awesome, and You Should Attend One (whether your interested in starting your own business or not)

If you havent heard of Startup Weekend - its an event where developers, designers, markets, product managers, and startup enthusiasts come together to to design, develop and launch a product over the course of a 54 hour hackathon. The DC Startup Weekend that I

Design

Sublime Text 2 Icon

I recently shifted away from Textmate and over to Sublime Text 2 as my primary text editor. Textmate 2 might bring me back, but until then I must admit that the ridiculous speed and awesome UI of Sublime is really winning me over. The

Art

Art Rage on iPad

When I finally convinced myself to buy an iPad, I knew that it wasn't going to be a productivity tool so much as it would be another one of my digital toys. What I didn't expect it to be was such an amazing digital

When it Comes to Developing your First iOS Game, Level Down

I began working on my first game for the iOS platform approximately four months ago, when a recent international move from Egypt to DC had left me with a lot of time on my hands (read: temporarily unemployed). Even though I had graduated with

Binpress

Binpress - The Market of Code

“Open source programmers are invisible minions hiding all over the world, with an altruistic light that shines within them, releasing their code to the world, and making your software better without expecting anything in return.” — Me Code has always been demarcated into two camps

WebApp

TabCloud - For the Tab Glutton in us all...

The people who know me well, know that I have had a single individual complaint for a very long time i.e. no matter what browser that I use (and trust me, I have tried them all) - they all seem to collapse under

Standing Tall in Support of the Egyptian People

Having met my wife in Egypt, and lived there myself for the last four years, I hold the country, it's people, and their search for democracy close to my heart and support them in their every endeavor.

Human

Anything that you once did well, doesn't matter anymore

Seth Godin on the human factor, the power of revolutionary ideas, why marketers should lead product development, why no one cares about you, why anything that you once did, doesn't matter anymore, and why you now need to be creating stories just as much

Experience

The Future of the Book - Finally Someone is being Innovative

The Future of the Book. from IDEO on Vimeo. With the launch and success of the iPad in particular, and the push towards the tablet form factor in general, a lot of people have been discussing the future of the written word. In fact

Git

Linus Torwalds gives a talk at Google on Git

"Nobody really creates perfect code the first time... except me, but there is only one of me" -- Lunus Torvalds. An absolutely great speech talking a little about the history of source control, and how Linus began the Git revolution. Click through

Christopher "moot" Poole of 4chan Presents: The Case for Anonymity Online

Most of us know 4chan as either the forum that you never ever open up at work (due to the pornographic nature of most of its content) or as CNN / Foxnews would make you believe - the mystical back alleys of the internet where

Apple

Steve Jobs Onstage at D8: Full Length Uncut and Uncensored

The full-length interview of Apple CEO Steve Jobs at the D8 conference with Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher. Watch one of the greatest creative minds and business mavens openly and frankly discuss his opinions on Apple, Flash, Google, Platform Wars, Stolen iPhones, and much

Did You Know? "We are living in exponential times" (A Must Watch, Really)

via youtube.com Posted via web from Salman S. Qadeer

Why Is Scrum So Hard? Because it Challenges Existing Management Hierarchies

via tvagile.com Jens Stergaard gives a brilliant introduction on Scrum from a process perspective, but also talks about why Scrum can be so hard to implement. Conclusion? If Scrum is to be successfully implemented - Managers need to change their perception with regards

The real reason Apple is so Innovative: Its Not What You Do its Why You Do it.

via holykaw.alltop.com For decades, competitors and consumers have pondered how Apple has reached (and continues to reach) such heightened levels of success and innovation. But it only took Simon Sinek eighteen minutes to explain it at a TED event. And, according to