Archive | September, 2010

This week it’s back to normal stuff

By on September 18, 2010 in Random Rants

I missed a This week post last week… damn. It was going so so well. Since coming back from vacation, I have been rather swamped and by the time I remembered it was way too late.

  • More work on my iPhone and Android apps. A test version of my Android app was on my wife’s phone and crashing. Turns out I forgot that on starting a service the Intent can be null and therefore I should check that. Whoops. Working now though and working great.
  • On the iPhone side – I have been continuing a rewrite of the Tube application. Yes, ok, it’s not the biggest application in the world – but the point is that I hated all the other ones out there.
  • A friend of mine came to me with a couple of app ideas. She had done some great research on different styles of apps. Looking forward to working with her on something.
  • Haven’t done much node.js. That only occurs to me because of how much I had done over the previous couple of months.
  • Been stuck on project roadmap/funding hell. I say hell, because it makes one feel like nothing’s got done. When really you have done loads and loads.
  • Had a look at Amazon EC2‘s new Micro Instances. Interesting… providing you don’t want a lot of CPU they are quite good. In essence, the CPU bottlenecks means compiling Erlang took 20+ minutes! That’s not good.
  • Applied for my first OU course and got the stuff through. Yay! What am I doing – I am not actually sure yet. But all Computing courses start with course M150 – so I figure I’ll decide while doing that. Why am I doing the degree? Well, it’s something I didn’t get to do – I went straight into work… I think it’s a good time, after 10 years to have a bit of a refresher and to get the piece of paper. Should be good.

That’s it!

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This week there’s been lots of iPhone

By on September 4, 2010 in Weekly Update

This week I got some quality time with the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad SDK – ok so iOS… but the iPhone and the iPad are so far apart until November at the earliest it’s not worth thinking of them as the same… yet.

  • I watched the Steve Jobs presentation of the new iPods – it’s available over on the Apple Site. I have to say that, Steve didn’t seem that excited on stage this time. I mean, yes the iPod Shuffle… meh. The iPod Nano… really!? In fact my wife loves watching videos on her Nano on the tube and specifically doesn’t want a touch… The Touch… well, that was an interesting update. It’s bought it back in sync with the iPhone 4.
  • The iPad 4.2 update was announced – for November. It was supposed to happen in 4.1. Turns out too many people went on vacation over the summer and the project slipped!
  • Now, my own stuff. Pushed an update for my Tube Notify app to Apple for approval. The last version had a slight bug in it where people who were installing it on new devices, wouldn’t of registered for push notifications. I also added support for Mutlitasking so it doesn’t behave stupidly and refreshes items on coming intro the foreground.
  • Started implementing CoreData and StoreKit into the Tube Notify app – why!? Well, you’ll have to wait and see.
  • On a side note, managed to do Reverse Tethering with my Android phone using bluetooth. That is, I used PAN from the phone to use my laptops wifi connection then used tethering on the phone. Why? Who knows – was fun to do though!

That’s it for this week – not many items… but again – it is summer!

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