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Sr Director of Architecture @ Universal Destinations and Experiences

Email me Matthew.Velie[@]udx.com | Work for the parks: https://jobs.universalparks.com

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Universal Parks & Resorts | Solution Architect | Orlando, FL or Remote (USA only) | Full Time

Universal Parks & Resorts is a global theme park company, with parks in Orlando, LA, Osaka and Beijing. My team is responsible for the software architecture for our digital and enterprise tooling. Includes web/mobile/service etc.

If interested use the email in my profile to get in touch.

Working at a theme park doing technology work, it allows for free access to the theme park (significant other included) and other theme parks in the area. Deep discounts are provided on merchandise and hotels in the area.

Developers can also do images in resolution independent ways for certain types of image assets used in the apps, like icons. You wouldn't be able to do these for photos, but it would help.

Also for our app, when it first loads we detect your screen size and then download assets that match for that screen size only when needed.

This is the same as the jump from iOS 6 to iOS 7, except that was more UI code. It was difficult to support both and keep the correct look and feel between the apps without a lot of extra work, even more if you weren't using auto layout. The basic controls changed a lot and the change with the status bar still affects apps today.

I agree this might be nice for certain apps, say the Youtube app, where the whole purpose of the app is to show video to the user.

I write a bunch of apps right now that have the ability to show video has one of the many functions of the app. Having to put an icon like this on every screen would take up a lot of screen real estate and I think confuse a lot of our users.

Simple answer: Don't get information from kids under 13 unless you have parents permission. You must also have a privacy policy.

Complex answer: How you determine if the person is under 13 and how you get the parents permission can be done a lot of different ways. Some of the most popular is doing a test charge against a credit card number, assuming kids won't have those.

I disagree, if I order something from a site and it says it'll ship and I don't get it, I would probably call, which would probably get everything fixed.

Since my card would never have been charged I don't think there's any fraud or legal actions that could occur.

There's a "report issue" button if you hit the bottom right corner of the map. It allows you to drop pins where issues are and gives free text fields to enter information.

With multimonitor setup the apps are allowed to use those extra monitors while in full screen. You're supposed to be able to drag pieces of the apps into them if the app supports it.

I work for a company that does the sports websites for a lot of college clients, we provide tons of rss feeds with scores, schedules, news, and all kinds of other information all for free. ESPN is in this to help themselves from it, not to get the information out there and help fans.