'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 to the right, front row, just off camera), so I know
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 per month (according to Google Ad Planner). There are more photos
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 for the content to be produced, and it should be a
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 some of the bands there (Ginger Ninjas and Amanda Mora), and
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 user. Not in the slightest. We don't have a couch. I
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 a day: usually around 5 shots of espresso. But with summer
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 holds together.** On The Telly** is the result. Update: BBC changed
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 something I may not be able to legally release into the
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 different kind of business book - one that explores a new
'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 play with the CTP version, make XCode and Cocoa look like
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 and opt in to the new one (link on the top
working at home - 4 months on, what have I learned So, it's been 4 months since I left the BBC (and wow, looks like the Homepage is about to go live-beta). It's been a bit of a learning curve/wall, especially some things which I wasn't expecting. Here's what I found. I don't work
Mac gear for sale Quick note for anyone looking for a Macbook, or RAM. 06/03/2010: Mac is gone, RAM still available. Macbook, 13 inch, White late-2006 model. 2ghz Core2Duo; 4GB RAM (3.5GB usable); 250GB hard drive. All the rest of the bells and whistles of
Tweetlightning is out - my first iPhone app It's finally up in the store: Feel free to grab it off the iTunes store. And even more information here. Thanks to Shaun, I have an update to do already, but it's a very minor one, only happens in one situation (which, if you
Matt Gemmell - how to compete with the ipad Really enjoying reading this article from Matt Gemmell. I especially love this bit: Closed system. This is the very opposite of what your customers care about. The percentage of your customer base who make a buying decision based on the openness of a system
git-svn? or svn-git? As some may know, I'm doing some work for a rocking email archiving company in Denmark, so obviously, my source repository isn't local - or even in this country. Luckily for me, it's Subversion (rather than VSS or TFS). Up until now, I've been