Archive for the ‘infurious’ Category

BarCampBelfast 2008

Thursday, May 15th, 2008

BarcampBelfast 2008 is planned for Saturday 21st June, 9am - 5pm. Last year I had other commitments and couldn't make it but I intend to turn up this year. Mac-Sys did sponsor it last year and will be doing so again. I think we need more of these events. There's already ...

Jordan on C.I.M.G.

Monday, April 21st, 2008

The blog "Cocoa Is My Girlfriend" includes a shout-out to Jordan Languille who did the graphics for Rickshaw and web imagery for Infurious recently. "You can see Jordan’s portfolio at his site. I’m quite pleased with the results and highly recommend his work. This is not a paid endorsement. I just ...

V.C. Seminars in NISP

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

Dear Colleague You are invited to attend a Frameworks Entrepreneur workshop to be held at Northern Ireland Science Park, with a presentation on: “The Venture Capital Process” By Peter Stafford of A&L Goodbody Programme Overview: Raising money in today's environment is no easy task -- but it can be done if you focus on the ...

this goes out to a few devs in $BIG_COMPANY

Friday, March 28th, 2008

From iPhoneDevelopment by Jeff LaMarche: Third rule: insulate your team from corporate silliness to the fullest extent of your power. Nothing will make these people leave your employ faster than making them sit in unproductive, boring meetings that don't directly further the project. The kind of person you want, wants to ...

Code Signing. And me.

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

'Perry' wrote (on the RogueAmoeba blog post "Code Signing and You"): "...the case for Code Signing on a Mac - in the service of its administrator/owner - is very compelling. In a sense, the Mac is living on borrowed time - viruses and worms and other nasty bit-critters will surely come ...

XCode is hurting my patience

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

So how am I meant to deal with the light blue blobs. I can't 'edit' that text in any sensible fashion when what I really want to do is remove the space just after the * character. I end up just typing the whole thing which removes the point of ...

Apple makes it clear…

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

For the hard of thinking.... According to iLounge, Apple today sent out a mass e-mail with helpful development links and a more detailed message regarding their status. “We have many more requests than we can serve during this initial beta period,” explains the follow-up e-mail, “so we must limit the Program at ...

Distribution of iPhone apps

Saturday, March 8th, 2008

So, there's three categories of applications which can be installed onto the iPhone without Jailbreak. Payfer Apps - you write your application, sign it, give it to Apple and they host it on the App Store and you get 70% of all proceeds. Free Apps - you write the application, sign it, ...

Thirty percent of everything

Friday, March 7th, 2008

Let's say you're a developer producing applications. Your livelihood depends on applications sold and you really want to get the best penetration for them. How much would you pay for: a) no need to set up a web shopping cart b) no need to pay for bandwidth and hosting c) greatly reduced need for ...

iPhone stuff

Friday, March 7th, 2008

At some point last night, Apple's development servers fell over and died. These servers can hold 40 000+ concurrent download streams but there were so many people downloading the new iPhone SDK that the whole server became unresponsive. After several hours of trying, I finally got a connection at 11 ...