The first of my ‘being productive at the weekend’ projects was something I’d actually started over the Christmas holidays – a pretty simple iOS app for checking domain name availability. The few apps I’d found all had the same restriction – they could only check .com/.net/.org domains. At a guess, they were just making a [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
A couple of progress updates on things I’ve written about previously. First up, my ‘MacBook Mini’ is coming along excellently. I’ve been using it at work and to write some short stories, the battery life is brilliant and the keyboard is nearly as good as the one I use with my iMac. I’ve got speaker/headphone [...]
Prior to my current day job I spent just over a year working at one of Nokia’s outsourced call centres, first doing general support (how to use the phone and explaining that only the network can get it unlocked) and then technical support (mostly supporting Nokia PC sync software, and some other horrors). I’m interested [...]
