Autolayout and auto-expanding UILabel 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
Authenticating with Touch ID and the iPhone pin 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
Nearest Bus Post Mortem Part 4: Today Extension 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
Nearest Bus Post Mortem Part 3: Code 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
FREAKy - SSL kind of broken in iOS, Android etc 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
Nearest Bus Post Mortem Part 2: Design 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
Nearest Bus Post Mortem Part 1: Overview 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
Email is a thing, apparently: Some of the better weekly email newsletters 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
Redesigning the Hungarian Euro 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
Pay: The most secure form of payment 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
Help wanted: Beta test the new Nearest Bus I've been doing a bit of work on Nearest Bus recently, mostly as it's my simplest and most popular (in terms of users) app. I decided on a full rewrite, as the app
BTProgressHUD: Update for X.iOS 8.6 Unified API 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
Postcards from Pripyat 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.
Using Apples new TestFlight Beta Testing ... 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
Air New Zealand: getting mobile right 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
Retailers blocking Apple Pay. This will not end well. 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
Standing all day 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
Dave Winer: The lost art of software testing 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
Apple Pay: It's not one thing 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
Three (hopefully) interesting things "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
Zuckerberg and Gates 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
Codemania! Ver todos los videos! 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"
Respondly - getting better at supporting my apps 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
Codemania 2014 - Native, Cross platform, Mobile 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 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