With a workable beta version of my first ever iPhone application sent out to the few brave souls who volunteered to test it, I thought I’d quickly go over my technology choices for this app. The core of the application is basically a mobile webapp, wrapped in PhoneGap to make it a native application. I [...]
So, pretty much every year I decide that I’m going to be more consistent about working on my side projects, updating this blog, and generally not spending my non-work time staring vacantly at either my TV or my computer. Then it descends into half-hearted hacking on toy projects that never really achieve anything, and I’m [...]
Last November I handed in my notice at Daxtra Technologies. I didn’t have anything else lined up, but after three and a quarter years I felt I needed to move on, largely because I didn’t see any opportunity to move my career in the direction I wanted. I want to be working on awesome scaling [...]
I’m really happy that I’m starting to see articles questioning the marketing value of social media. I’ve been using social media for over a decade, since before people used the term ‘social media’. As I say in my Twitter bio, I ‘live on the internet’. I’ve met my wife on the internet, and so on, [...]
I’ve been on a mobile/iPhone webapp kick lately. It seems like a nice area to work in, and it’s forced me to pick up a lot more JavaScript than I had before which is good. There are some amazing frameworks for making iPhone webapps. The first one I came across was jQTouch, which is a [...]
The Conservative Party has been desperately trying to rebrand itself. It’s a modern ‘caring’ party. This isn’t the party that fucked over half the country during the 1980s, oh no! It’s not the party of Section 28 any more. At a first glance, you could believe it. David Cameron has spent a lot of time [...]
It’s election time in the UK. This will probably not be the last political post I make here in the next few weeks. At least this one is still heavily tech-related. It’s about the Digital Economy Act, which I wrote an angry letter to my MP about. (Incidentally – no response to that latter, although [...]
I’m a picky eater. I have a very limited range of foods that I can eat without making comedy ‘that’s disgusting’ faces. I’m not like the guy on ‘Freaky Eaters’ who only eats cheese, but it’s definitely far less than a normal range. For the last 30 years it’s not really bothered me that much, [...]
This weekend I’ve been working on an iPhone app which is entirely HTML, CSS, and Javascript. I’ve been missing script/server as an easy way to spawn a web server for testing on an iPhone. There’s a Python one-liner I usually use for this sort of thing, but I don’t otherwise use Python and figured it [...]
Dear Willie Rennie, I’m deeply disturbed that despite a three-page letter you sent in reply to my query concerning the controversial Digital Economy Bill, you did not make the effort to attend the second reading of this bill on the evening of the 6th of April. This bill is being pushed through despite potentially draconian [...]
