Archive for the ‘News’ Category

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 ...

On the cusp, what next?

Tuesday, June 13th, 2006

When I was writing RPGs, it was my opinion that we should always have one book "in production", one about to "launch", one "in research" and one "winding down" in sales. This, I thought, would ensure that we always had plenty to work on while, at the same time, making ...

Typo upgrade

Tuesday, June 6th, 2006

We upgraded Typo to the 'trunk' from subversion, pretty much without any issues. As a result, we now have a few improved services (e.g. comment RSS feed now works, as do trackbacks in general, improved anti-spam for comments). We've also tweaked the CSS slightly to make it a ...

The Art of the Business Card

Saturday, June 3rd, 2006

Business cards are tricky things. You meet people, exchange cards and wonder if it will be responded to. The conventional wisdom is also to put as much information as possible onto the card so that the individual has no excuse not to be able to get in contact including but ...

Seems weird not to have it for the Mac

Thursday, June 1st, 2006

A new game,Tremulous has released some binaries and source for Windows and Linux. Is it just me but does it actually feel weird that it's not available as a DMG for Mac OS X? I guess I've been used to recent developments being available Mac-first or Mac-early. Tremulous is a ...

What happened to the housing market?

Sunday, May 28th, 2006

I've been looking at houses. Totally depressing experience. Back when I bought my first house, it cost me ???79K - for a two bedroom converted church in a rural area in the middle of a field bounced by rivers on two sides. These days I'm finding it hard to find ...

Free Speech BS

Saturday, May 27th, 2006

Apple lost the recent case against some bloggers There's a certain amount of triumph especially from Dave Winer's corner of the blogosphere that this was some sort of strike back for free speech or recognising blogging as a legitimate medium. It's not. This tells people they can divulge trade secrets and get away ...

SyncBridge Status

Tuesday, May 23rd, 2006

So what's the current status of SyncBridge? Barring any major issues, we'll be conducting another round of testing of a release candidate within the next two weeks. If you're interested in participating, please mail me and we'll contact you when we're ready to go. Once that round has been ...

Definitely Maybe Green Light

Saturday, May 20th, 2006

We're gearing up for release now. Fine-tuning the app. Making it prettified in the web admin GUI. Adding some UI feedback in the app. Building the Production server in the final configuration and taking it out of Debug. And of course planning a release party. Aidan has been an absolute ...

Games? I’ll give you games….ZAP!

Tuesday, May 16th, 2006

Those words, uttered by Kevin Flynn in TRON more than two decades ago really inspired me. I love computer games. Sure - I may not like them as much as this guy or even these guys but I do love games. I especially like games which allow me to kill ...