Wellington .NET User Group – MonoTouch and MonoDroid
I did a presentation last night at the last Wellington .NET User Group meeting of the year. It went down well (so I’m told – hard to tell from my side of it!), and it was good catching up with people afterwards. I’ve put the slides here for those who want them. Enjoy!
Read MoreThe Vendor Client Relationship In Real World Situations
So brilliant. If you have ever worked for an ISV, this will be very familiar to you…. Source: The Vendor Client Relationship In Real World Situations
Read MoremobileAgent for FreeAgent 1.0 is out!
The latest Big Ted creation is finally out! I’ve been working on an iPhone client for FreeAgent (a UK-based SaaS accounting package which I use) for a few months – it would have been out a lot earlier, but I got a little side-tracked by London Bike App The result is mobileAgent. There is a load more information on the …
Read MoreBandwidth vrs Latency
From the “things that kicked me in the arse” files. Everyone knows bandwidth. I have a 3 meg connection. you have 10meg. My phone has between 600k/sec and 2meg/sec depending on the cellsite. Whatever. Most people (ie, me) tend to forget about latency, especially when coming from desktop apps, which are generally very low latency, to mobile, while are usually …
Read MoreXKCD and London Bike App
I had to laugh at XKCD this morning. Thats nothing new, really, as it’s usually funny, but in this case, it was very appropriate. (Original is here. CC-BY-NC) It rings especially true for me at the moment. In London Bike App, I have put in a TFL scraper, but in order to make it work well, I have offloaded the …
Read MoreAugmented Reality: Gimmick? Useful?
I’ve been playing with a few Augmented Reality apps of late, on the iPhone, and frankly, I don’t see what all the fuss is about. First there was the original iPhone Augmented Reality app, Yelp Monocle: And the Layer app, which is a kind of meta-browser where people can make their own layer and… um… layer it into the layer app, …
Read MoreBook: Cognitive Surplus
I’ve just finished Clay Shirkeys latest, Cognitive Surplus. Overall, it wasn’t too bad – I’ve seen a couple of his video’s on the topic (and him talk about it live – I’m just to the right, front row, just off camera), so I know the core ideas quite well, and to be honest, this killed the book for me. So, …
Read Moreyou don’t need to scale as big as facebook – really
Chris Sells posted this recently on twitter: Pingdom: Exploring the software behind Facebook, the world’s largest site. It’s a very interesting read. Some of the highlights: Facebook serves 570 billion page views per month (according to Google Ad Planner). There are more photos on Facebook than all other photo sites combined (including sites like Flickr). More than 3 billion photos are uploaded every month. …
Read MorePaywalls – The Times starts charging
So, The Times (the UK one) has started charging for its content – the great paywall debate/debacle. To be honest, I dont blame them for doing this – someone has to pay for the content to be produced, and it should be a combination of reader and advertiser. The reader has had it free for a long, long time, and …
Read Morebuying music – there HAS to be a better way
Leonie and I headed up to the Camden Green Fair on sunday, which was lovely. Nice and warm, nice people, interesting stuff, great music, yummy food. We bought a couple of CD’s from some of the bands there (Ginger Ninjas and Amanda Mora), and have spent most of this morning listening to the Radio station of inSpiral, which is a vegan/raw …
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