The Chicken Coop

I wrote about my use of Homebridge a while back (a long while, it appears), and since then, Homebridge has been there, just a swipe up on the iPhone, but it hasn't had

Unlike some people I know (and work with), I'm not big on conferences. I find them equal parts interesting and incredibly tiring, like I've had the world turned up to 11 all day.

I've written about Apple Pay a few times before, it's a technology I like a lot. Retailers blocking Apple Pay - this will not end well Pay: The most secure form of payment

How iOS Security Really Works https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2016/705/ Excellent overview of iOS security. Covers off ATS, the secure enclave, the true value of untethered jailbreaks ($1m!). Not super

The realisation came to be over a glass of wine (or 2) and a cup of ginger tea on a quiet Sunday night. The realisation that we are not building something for someone

It's been a very quick 2 months since I left ANZ goMoney and started at Pushpay. The time has gone by in a bit of a blur, but a good blur. I was

I think thats enough google bait in the title. Using VMWare 8.x on El Capitan (OSX 10.11) with Windows 10 can be quite slow - this is a known (and un-addressed

Apple Pay - Apples implementation of NFC based payments, AKA Tap to Pay/PayWave/whatever the card companies are calling it now - is available in a few countries now, but New Zealand

I'm officially (f)unemployed this week - I finished up at ANZ last week, and I start at Pushpay on monday. Pushpay has been on my list of places (and people) I want

SSL is a tricky beast, which isn't overly well understood by most developers. The common mis-conception (or partial understanding) is that it's about encryption: hiding the content as it passes from my device

Shock news to some, about time to others. Xamarin CTO Miguel de Icaza said: "yeah, we kind of wanted to increase the horsepower of our VS team, so we thought we might

The Guardian Apple has come under pressure to scrap its controversial policy of permanently disabling repaired iPhone 6s when software is upgraded, following a global consumer backlash and claims the company could be

With the stories around the 5 eyes snooping of internet traffic from the likes of Edward Snowden[1], its hard to justify not using SSL for anything which is remotely sensitive these days.

We have a few WIFI-connected devices here at Casa Wise - AppleTV, printers and the like, and also a few Belkin WeMo switches which we use for outdoor lighting. We needed remotely switched

Needless to say, as a bank, we need to have "Bank Grade Security". No, not THAT Bank Grade Security, but we do need to secure things which should be secret[1]

So I had one post, and it got too long. So while that was all tech stuff, this is more personal stuff. The main aim for coming back to NZ (rather than staying

"Been a while since I wrote anything here" which is sort of how a lot of posts start. No exception here. But, being it's one of the few times in the

Over Christmas (24-26 Dec), Leonie and I walked the Routeburn Track, which is in Fjordland, in the South Island. It's one of the Great Walks, a series of walking/tramping/hiking tracks in

This. 100 times this. This is the age of writing iOS apps for love. Well, that’s not true for everybody. Well-established and awesome companies such as Omni, Panic, Flexibits, AgileBits, Tapbots, and

Disclaimer: I didn't go to WWDC, so chances are, this isn't the best of WWDC. That would be the people you - person who went to WWDC - met in the hallways, at

(Photo: nitro cold brew from Espresso Workshop in Britomart) Huge meta-analysis. 1.2 million people, 35-odd studies. But it’s way past time that we stopped viewing coffee as something we all need

No, not THAT AppleWatch Edition. From Supertop, makers of Unread One Less Thing… We spent a lot of time not making a Watch app. We love our new wrist computers but they are

FreeAgent have finally released their mobile app! It's been a (very) long time coming, and giving the importance of mobile these days, I'm surprised it's taken them this long. To be honest, while

One thing I miss in iOS, which Android has, is auto expanding labels (and other views). Android has the wrap_content layout option, which works really well to flow a view. <LinearLayout

One thing I really love about the new iOS devices - iPhone 5S, 6, 6+ and the iPad Air 2 - is the Touch ID sensor. I’ve always had a PIN on