I guess like many a geek, I’ve a laundry list of half-started or only-exists-in-my-head projects. Every year I decide I’m going to work on them more, and then I don’t really. (See: last year, the year before that, and the year before THAT.) So, in keeping with tradition I’m going to come up with another [...]
If you’ve met me, you might’ve noticed that I’m a massive fat cunt. This has been the case for all of my life, and I’m mostly happy with it. It keeps me warm in winter and if I fall overboard on a boat I’ll float. What I’m so not happy about is my level of [...]
After a pleasingly brief period of unemployment (where I mostly applied for jobs online and watched The West Wing), I’ve managed to land myself a job with PickLive, who are doing cool and interesting things with live event pool betting. They’ve even announced it on their blog, which is kinda cool. I’m going to be [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
I gave a talk about Adhearsion, the Ruby VoIP framework that interfaces with Asterisk, to ScotRUG. You can see the video on Vimeo. The talk wasn’t too well-prepared, in particular I hadn’t tested to see if Asterisk was working properly on my netbook. Of course, it wasn’t, and so I couldn’t do a demo. The [...]
