The Chicken Coop

One of the more interesting parts of Earnest was that it was highly visual, and well designed. The FreeAgent folks didn't want to use any (or many) of the standard iOS styles, and

There is a bit of talk around upgrade pricing for iOS apps, and the pitfalls around it and why Apple is not likely to offer it any time soon. Amplified(5 by 5)

Cesare Rocchi has an article called On why I am not buying RubyMotion, with his reasons why he's not going to use RubyMotion (found via the ever useful iOS Dev Weekly). I agree

London has a lot of things going for it - bars, restaurants, shows, great shops, lovely outdoor spaces, generally nice people - but breakfast is not one of them. Sure, there are places

About every 12 to 18 months, I make a habit of upgrading our hard drives. This keeps them nice and new, and so far, failure free*. Last time, I got the new (at

Over the last 3 months or so, I've been working with FreeAgent on an iOS app for people who are covered by the new HMRC rules around micro-businesses. I'll let Roan explain it

Yesterday, FreeAgent announced that they have integrated with Barclays, so your bank transactions are auto-loaded into FreeAgent. This is a huge step, which would cut out one of the few reasons why I

As might be abundantly obvious, I use and love the Xamarin tools for mobile development - mostly MonoTouch, which I've used for all my apps, but also Mono for Android. They are fantastic

These panoramics were taken with AutoStitch on the iPhone 4S. No other retouching. All link to full sized versions. Captions link to Google Maps. Kaiteriteri Awaroa Awaroa

4 days in the US. 21 days in New Zealand. 6 flights (2 business class!). 4 days at Awaroa. Lots of coffee. A fair bit a cider. Lots of sun (and some rain)

Amazon dropped off a new backup drive today, so I thought I'd share my backup "strategy", because you should be backing up, kinda like you should be flossing your teeth. These

From the New York Times For Mr. Cook, the focus on Asia “came down to two things,” said one former high-ranking Apple executive. Factories in Asia “can scale up and down faster” and

TL;DR: Netflix (UK) is nice, but it's mindless TV without the schedule. We'll keep it, but mostly for the cost-vrs-iTunes aspect. Netflix was released in the UK this week, and unsurprisingly, I

OK, I'm going to try REALLY hard to not rant against Starbucks "coffee", because while I will not drink it except in desperation, I know a lot of people will, and

Marco Arment brilliantly puts into words what I think about open plan offices and headphones. (about 20 mins in) I really enjoy being in the headphones, being in the closed off environment, where

Ah yes. Back to the (semi) technical topics. On the site we are working on, we serve everything except the HTML (via Umbraco) from a CDN. Littered throughout the code and references like:

Invercoe

Leonie is up in Scotland - Glencoe - doing Bruce Percy's Scotland photographic workshop. As it's very much not London, I'm tagging along, and doing some work up here while she's off freezing

First up, I realise this is pointless, but it's been pissing me off for ages. [Update: this is now in Apple's bug system as BugID: 10469092] I have fairly large fingers. They are

With Leonie away for a week in Mexico, I got a lot of back-dated bugs and little fixes done on both of these apps. Nearest Bus was the first to get an update.

Recently, on the MonoTouch list, there have been a lot of questions around things which, for me, are fairly basic, including UITabController MonoTouch.Dialog and UITableViews Location awareness GC issues I thought a

The latest release of Nearest Bus was approved by Apple a few days ago, and is now available in the AppStore. This release includes Favourites, which allows you to mark a stop as

I can't actually tell if this is fake or real. Obviously, the pre and post roll bits are (Dharma Initiative etc), but I think the middle might be real :) Either way, brilliant, esp

So reports have it that the RIM/Blackberry issue which has taken Blackberries worldwide out of service, was down to "unidentified technical debt". According to software experts at CAST, the reason

My latest iPhone app is now available in the AppStore: Nearest Bus: Nearest Bus is a simple application to answer one question: Where is my nearest bus? Nearest Bus uses the TfL Countdown