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)