On building a platform
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 »
End of month 2 at Pushpay - the difference is 🌛 and ☀️
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 »
Making Windows 10 inside VMWare Fusion 8.x a bit quicker on OSX 10.11 El Capitan
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 »
Apple Pay in New Zealand: what would that mean?
Apple Pay - Apples implementation of NFC based payments, AKA Tap to Pay/PayWave/whatever the card companies are calling it now - is available in »
(f)unemployment week; HealthKit; AppleTV Remote; External Views and Build
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 »
Increasing your trust: Certificate Pinning on iOS
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 »
Xamarin acquires Microsoft!
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 »
Error 53: when good intentions go very, very wrong
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 »
SSL all the things with Let's Encrypt and nginx
With the stories around the 5 eyes snooping of internet traffic from the likes of Edward Snowden, its hard to justify not using SSL for anything »
Homebridge: Homekit without Homekit hardware
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 »