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Bedouin-time: or what I’ve been spending my evenings on

Thursday, September 21st, 2006

For a while now, I've been going on about doing something Bedouin and we've been moving our pawns about the board in an attempt to get something started. This week I've truly been Bedouin and it's time I started talking a bit more about it. Last week, we named it "The ...

Blog migration, Bedouin and Beta3

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 ...

SyncBridge Report: release reports

Friday, July 21st, 2006

SyncBridge has been out for 10 hours. We have 52 users from 9 different countries sharing 84 calendars. Now, that's the power of the internet! We got listed on MacUpdate, Versiontracker and we're preparing the PRs for other sites in the Mac web today. Today is one of my best ...

And we’re on EirePreneurZ…

Friday, July 14th, 2006

James at EirePreneur is running a series of in-depth intreviews with Irish startups which he's dubbing EirePreneurZ. The first was with Karen Jackson of Gardini which is a Dublin based company founded to provide Gardens for Balconies, Patios, Yards, Terraces and Roof Tops and planters for House fronts and Windows. Next ...

PJ on video. Lookit! He moves!

Friday, July 14th, 2006

PJ, enjoying the success of no longer being a starving hopeful artist, has started vidcasting (which is a name I've invented now because vlog sounds silly and vee-casting sounds worse). I especially love the intro where he says "Oh, hello..." Reminds me of Jackanory which is decidedly old hat now and probably ...

SyncBridge is done.

Friday, July 7th, 2006

Yeah, you heard me. It's complete. We've just got some infrastructure stuff to do now. Get a digital certificate (GoDaddy are pissing about and handing me from support team to support team) sorted and get a new fast server sorted (again, we have one but the host, DedicatedNOW, started asking for ...

5….4….3….2…..1…..We have Logos!!!!

Friday, June 30th, 2006

Last couple of days we've been running SyncBridge in a production environment and adding some last minute features, future proofing, feedback about APIs and turning off debug messages. It's been error free for a while which is so nice. It's not a bad feeling when people using the app ...

Letting my kid outside

Wednesday, June 28th, 2006

It never occurred to me until yesterday just how much SyncBridge has been my little child. When I first created the sync engine, it wasn't allowed out of the house, although I occasionally sent photos to close relatives (I was using it to synchronize between multiple user accounts on my machine, ...

Powerbook Woes! AppleCare? You Betcha.

Friday, June 16th, 2006

I buy a lot of Mac hardware. A lot. I do make a lot of use out of my machines. They're in operation probably 18 hours a day. They're not left in conditions that would cause overheating (hard to imagine something overheating in Ireland anyway). Okay, maybe not a lot compared ...

Mac-Sys starts blogging!

Thursday, June 15th, 2006

Mac-Sys now have a blog. It's just getting started and not linked from the main page as they build up some content but it's certainly there. Mac-Sys Ltd was started 3 years ago (this week) by yours truly and is currently the only Apple Authorised Service Provider in Northern Ireland. The ...