ipad? thanks, but no
I finally got my hands on an iPad for a little while, after fighting a few other people off them at the Regent St Apple Store. Now, I realise I’m not a normal user. Not in the slightest. We don’t have a couch. I don’t commute. We usually watch media together, not separately. We don’t have the center-of-the-living-room TV. We are not …
Read MoreOn The Telly – Offline iPhone client for BBC iPlayer
I’ve been playing with MonoTouch a bit of late, mostly as I wanted to learn CocoaTouch (the iPhone apis), but try and seperate myself from the language (Objective-C) vrs just how the API holds together. On The Telly is the result. Update: BBC changed how their download interface works, so this may not work any more. Paul has more info …
Read MoreMonoTouch, TableViewControllers and SegmentedControl
I’ve been holding off blogging about MonoTouch recently (tho I’ve said a bit on twitter) – mostly because the “project” I’m “working” on (read: spare time, but exciting) is something I may not be able to legally release into the app store (and if not, it’ll be on github as open source). But in the meantime, I thought I’d share …
Read MoreWindows Phone 7 Series: prediction
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 …
Read Morebbc homepage (re)launches
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 …
Read Moreworking at home – 4 months on, what have I learned
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 …
Read MoreMac gear for sale
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, …
Read MoreTweetlightning is out – my first iPhone app
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 …
Read MoreMatt Gemmell – how to compete with the ipad
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. …
Read Moregit-svn? or svn-git?
As some may know, I’m doing some work for a rocking email archiving company in Denmark, so obviously, my source repository isn’t local – or even in this country. Luckily for me, it’s Subversion (rather than VSS or TFS). Up until now, I’ve been using Git (with -svn) to manage my code. This has worked well, mostly. I can check in locally …
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