'Augmented Reality: Gimmick? Useful?' I've been playing with a few Augmented Reality apps of late, on the iPhone, and frankly, I don't see what all the fuss is about. First there was the original iPhone Augmented Reality
'"Fuck you" money' Adam, Andrew and I were having a discussion about Fuck You money on twitter. The idea is: I have enough money to say "fuck you" to anyone I would normally have
'Book: Cognitive Surplus' I've just finished Clay Shirkeys latest, Cognitive Surplus. Overall, it wasn't too bad - I've seen a couple of his video's on the topic (and him talk about it live - I'm just
Achiltibuie area. West highlands. Scotland Absolutely stunning. Looking forward to going to the summer isles inn for dinner tonight. One Michelin star is a bit of a change from rice risotto :)
Shieldaig, west highlands, scotland I'm rather loving autostitch for the iPhone - better than most mac or pc pano apps.
you don't need to scale as big as facebook - really Chris Sells posted this recently on twitter: Pingdom: Exploring the software behind Facebook, the world’s largest site. It's a very interesting read. Some of the highlights: Facebook serves 570 billion page views
Paywalls - The Times starts charging So, The Times (the UK one) has started charging for its content - the great paywall debate/debacle. To be honest, I dont blame them for doing this - someone has to pay
Only in Japan Only in Japan would you find extendable, disposable chopsticks. Or in Amsterdam. Seriously. Useful and work well, but surely all-wood ones would be as good?
buying music - there HAS to be a better way Leonie and I headed up to the Camden Green Fair on sunday, which was lovely. Nice and warm, nice people, interesting stuff, great music, yummy food. We bought a couple of CD's from
ipad? thanks, but no I finally got my hands on an iPad for a little while, after fighting a few other people off them at the Regent St Apple Store. Now, I realise I'm not a normal
coding and drinking Everyone I know drinks when coding. Not alcoholic - well, ok, sometimes, usually after beer-o-clock on a friday - but usually caffeinated. However, there is only so much coffee I can take in
On The Telly - Offline iPhone client for BBC iPlayer I've been playing with MonoTouch a bit of late, mostly as I wanted to learn CocoaTouch (the iPhone apis), but try and seperate myself from the language (Objective-C) vrs just how the API
MonoTouch, TableViewControllers and SegmentedControl I've been holding off blogging about MonoTouch recently (tho I've said a bit on twitter) - mostly because the "project" I'm "working" on (read: spare time, but exciting) is
Rework - 37signals This could be the shortest book review ever :). Just finished rework, and also listened to their podcast which talked about it. From the founders of the trailblazing software company 37signals, here is a
'Windows Phone 7 Series: prediction' Now, I could be totally wrong here, however, but there is a very good chance this thing will kick arse. Why, you ask? Very simple. The application development model, having had a brief
bbc homepage (re)launches The BBC homepage, which I worked on from January until October last year, has finally gone public (well, beta). You can get to it one of two ways: either hit the current homepage