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Archive for February 2010

Tweetlightning is out – my first iPhone app

In general, tech on 10 February 2010 with no comments

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 [...]

Matt Gemmell – how to compete with the ipad

In general, tech on 5 February 2010 with 2 comments

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 [...]

git-svn? or svn-git?

In tech on 5 February 2010 with Comments Off

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 [...]

tilt-shift gen

In general on 3 February 2010 with Comments Off

nice little iPhone app.