Archive for the ‘Code’ Category
Friday, October 19th, 2007
This morning the subject in the Infurious chat swayed to the iPhone and the new possibilities with the SDK being available in February.
The SDK will enable applications to be written for both iPhone and iPod touch. This has different implications for applications wanting to take advantage of the New ...
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Tuesday, September 25th, 2007
This article documents the startup and stopping and restart of a web-app-based startup.
There's some good lessons in there for anyone who would consider releasing a web app in the near future.
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Friday, September 14th, 2007
Let me start by saying that I've never really been a fan of the GPL based entirely on the zealotry of its proponents. I attended a conference and in a short period was both impressed and filled with admiration for Bruce Perens and, almost at the same time, bored and ...
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Wednesday, September 12th, 2007
I read this article recently which left me with this mantra:For common problems use Opensource.
For rare problems use Buy.
For unique problems use Build.
For our email and web hosting systems (for ourselves and for the companies we host applications and sites for), we use purely open source technologies all hosted on ...
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Tuesday, September 4th, 2007
Wade Williams wrote on the dotnetaddict blog:
One of the toughest hurdles I had to overcome when learning Cocoa coming from the procedural C world was learning to look for the easy way. It's been a long time so I don't remember the details, but I have a hazy memory ...
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Thursday, August 9th, 2007
Next week, we're losing one of our developers to a big fancy firm in Belfast. Steve has been an extremely valuable part of the team for the last few months and has helped us with many of the skunkworks projects which have been paying the bills for the last year. ...
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Saturday, March 10th, 2007
We currently have four projects on the bench out of a list of around 20 possible ideas.
We have a new hire which technically brings the number of people in Infurious up to 4. This is good, right? It means we can do more stuff which is good.
Project #1: Some ...
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Friday, February 2nd, 2007
As we move into the testing of Product B in preparation for a later release, I'm buoyed up by this article on using paper to prototype user interfaces.
To be honest I already do this, using drawing skills gained by disembowelling and drawing the corpses of small animals and plants during ...
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Tuesday, July 25th, 2006
We've moved the blog from our old server onto something a lot more stable, hosted by our friends at Yoyo. We decided to stop using Typo because it was unstable, just around the time they fixed the stability problems. Still, I don't want to spend my time hacking ...
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Tuesday, July 18th, 2006
Thought I'd add a bit more to this. I finished all the code for SyncBridge on the 6th of July. I don't just mean code complete, I mean tested and bug-fixed etc. First thing in the morning on the 7th of July I went on vacation for ...
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