The Chicken Coop

This is a multipart post-mortem-style post series on the design and development of Nearest Bus. I'm planning on covering the architecture, design, code, widget (this post) and possibly some on adding a watchkit

This is a multipart post-mortem-style post series on the design and development of Nearest Bus. I'm planning on covering the architecture, design, code (this post), widget and possibly some on adding a watchkit

Ars Technica: The weak 512-bit keys are a vestige of the 1990s, when the Clinton administration required weak keys to be used in any software or hardware that was exported out of the

This is a multipart post-mortem-style post series on the design and development of Nearest Bus. I'm planning on covering the architecture, design (this post), code, widget and possibly some on adding a WatchKit

Like most of my apps, Nearest Bus (originally London's Nearest Bus) was written to scratch my own itch. We were living in Fulham, in London, and the easiest way to get to work

Well, "better" is subjective, but here's the ones I subscribe to and actually read. It's nice to get it in your inbox - easier to scan than an RSS feed, less

I love it when people redesign currency. It's a project with some serious security constraints - and most of the redesigns take this very seriously - but the results are usually stunning. This

Big Nerd Ranch have a good article up about how ApplePay works, and why it's the most secure method of payment available. The cryptogram is a layer of security in which part of

Xamarin have released information about how and when to upgrade to the new Unified 32/64 bit API's. Thanks to @redth, BTProgressHUD is already available as a Unified binary, but it was built

Int 2011, a friend organised a trip to Pripyat, which is the town which was evaculated during the Chernobyl disaster. It was a surreal, eye opening and wonderful trip for many different reasons.

... which is not to be confused with the old TestFlight (which Apple bought and called TestFlight). At work, we do a pilot release of our app before we go live. This is usually

The Air New Zealand app has come a long way - they used to just have a sticker with an RFID chip on the back, and now they have moved all of that

From The Verge and Macrumours: In fact, a significant number of merchants, including heavyweights like Walmart, Kmart, 7-Eleven, and Best Buy, are in outright competition with Apple Pay. The retailers, through a joint

This article (and sadly I don't remember how I got to it) really struck a chord with me today. As part of getting my feet wet, my principal suggested I “be” a student

Absolutely worth a read: I remember when I first encountered a software tester. I had just signed up with a publisher, and they employed testers, and one was assigned to my product. His

TL;DR: Apple announced a payment thing called Apple Pay. I've seen a few knowledgeable people talking about it recently, and apparantly either getting it wrong, or missing some of the point (or

"Interesting" is, of course, relative. Like a lot of people, I've moved to a standing desk. After 3 weeks, it's going well. I had the usual sore legs and feet for

Two articles, next to each other, in my rss reader this morning. The first is about Facebook, via Marco Arment. Scientists at Facebook have published a paper showing that they manipulated the content

Looks like Ben has been busy, slaving away at his Finalcut desk: all the videos for Codemania are out, including mine! Some of the talks I enjoyed the most: Michelle "Nanogirl"

I've had various apps in the AppStore for a while now - 3.5 years for mobileAgent, and over 4 for my first public app, London Bike App. Support has always been something

Last week, I talked at Codemania about cross platform mobile apps, and specifically the Xamarin tools. The talk appeared to go well (it's always hard to tell from this side of the stage)

Meat is a much debated topic. For every meat-a-holic, there is at least one vegan, vegetarian or some other -atarian. Eating it - or not eating is - so so core to our

A while back, I asked if anyone else had done this: Anyone already done an ios7-style date picker in @xamarinhq .ios? If not I guess I need to write one.— Nic Wise

FeedBin, my RSS reader of choice, is 1 year old today Feedbin launched into a market with no future. Google owned RSS and they had let it languish. That all changed when Google