June 2010
2 posts
May 2010
3 posts
April 2010
6 posts
“Patience is the art of hoping.”
– Luc De Vauvanargues (via kari-shma)
52 Weeks of UX: Simplicity isn't that simple →
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” —Leonardo Da Vinci
Simplicity, by definition, is freedom from complexity; the absence of luxury or pretentiousness. Sophistication, on the other hand, often implies a sense of style, cultivated beauty and refinement. So is Da Vinci…
March 2010
4 posts
“Those who stand for nothing are easily led”
– Unknown
“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
– Virginia Woolf (via kari-shma)
“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”
– e.e. cummings (via kari-shma)
January 2010
3 posts
December 2009
6 posts
Least painful way to build a DAL with Monotouch
Data access in monotouch (C# for iphone) is a royal pain in the ass. I know most developers, whether C# or objc, are just stuffing SQL statements directly into their code but is one of my pet hates. Consequently I’ve been looking for a way around it.
As it turns out there’s no nice solution but there’s a half way solution that sucks a bit less.
It’s all Apple’s...
November 2009
14 posts
I’ve come to the conclusion that photoshopping user interfaces to perfection before writing a single line of code is way to develop
RingtoneExpress update launched! →
Hooray a new version of one of my hobby apps - RingtoneExpress - just went live with a shiny new website too go with it. Fly! Be free!
Damn you Apple
Damn you Apple. Damn you and your seductive products, your new store openings and your new pricing. I tried to resist your new 27 inches of power but resistance was futile. And damn your clapping “walk of shame” as I left the store carrying it’s half a tonne box.
Aww who am I kidding I love it :)
So welcome, “whiplash”, the oversized iMac to my family.. You...
Crap developer tools? There's an app for that:...
While I’m on the topic of mac, XCode and Interface Builder are absolute shit. Reminds me of the nightmare that was Sybase PowerBuilder 6.5/7 on PC.
Time Machine + Airport Extreme + External drive =...
There’s nothing like the near loss of a program’s source code to scare you into reviewing your backup solution. A few months back, I virtualized one of my dev PC’s to free up some hardware. Without realizing it, this compromised the machines backup procedure (drive to drive backups). This is pretty useless when you corrupt the VM image as I did - all the backups are inside of...
oDesk.com - Trust No-one
Despite my best attempts, I haven’t been able to clone myself. So last week, I took a gamble on oDesk.com and outsourced a few tasks to programmers in Belarus & Manilla. The results were fine but the way oDesk treat their providers is not.
oDesk software monitors keyboard activity and takes periodic screen captures while the provider is working - something which to me is an extreme act...
October 2009
30 posts
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
– Oscar Wilde (via justbesplendid) (via aestheticthoughts) (via rahmin)
“Simplicity is complexity resolved.”
– Brancusi (via andrewmuto)
Windows 7 Blue Screen in Virtual Server R2
And you thought crashs/blue screen’s were a thing of the past.. Turns out when installing Windows 7 on Virtual Server R2 you need Service Pack 1 or the additions trigger a bluescreen.
That’s fine but the ‘regular’ SP1 from Microsoft claimed to have already been installed. After numerous bluescreens, frustration and 30 minutes of googling it turns out there is an alternate...
