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Now, I could be totally wrong here, however, but there is a very good chance this thing will kick arse. Why, you ask? Very simple. The application development model, having had a brief play with the CTP version, make XCode and Cocoa look like it just walked in from 1995. The iPhone has 120K apps or so (depending on what …

The BBC homepage, which I worked on from January until October last year, has finally gone public (well, beta). You can get to it one of two ways: either hit the current homepage and opt in to the new one (link on the top of the page). Or just load the website. So, whats new (well, that I know about …

So, it’s been 4 months since I left the BBC (and wow, looks like the Homepage is about to go live-beta). It’s been a bit of a learning curve/wall, especially some things which I wasn’t expecting. Here’s what I found. I don’t work well on a morning. Once I worked this out, it’s a lot easier to plan around it …

Quick note for anyone looking for a Macbook, or RAM. 06/03/2010: Mac is gone, RAM still available. Macbook, 13 inch, White late-2006 model. 2ghz Core2Duo; 4GB RAM (3.5GB usable); 250GB hard drive. All the rest of the bells and whistles of a Macbook (802.11N, Bluetooth, DVD writer etc etc). Full specs here (it’s the second/middle row). Comes with the remote, …

It’s finally up in the store: Feel free to grab it off the iTunes store. And even more information here. Thanks to Shaun, I have an update to do already, but it’s a very minor one, only happens in one situation (which, if you download it, you will notice – look for @(null) when you first use the app!), but …

Really enjoying reading this article from Matt Gemmell. I especially love this bit: Closed system. This is the very opposite of what your customers care about. The percentage of your customer base who make a buying decision based on the openness of a system (in terms of system-level customisation options, use of open source software or otherwise) is vanishingly tiny. …