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  • Location Services in Commuter Pal–thanks to iOS 6

    As part of my overhaul of “I May Be Late” (now known as Commuter Pal), I’m adding in some location based services to the app. The idea is that when you move within range of a tube station, you’ll get quick access to the status of the lines and current… Read ⇢

  • I wish applications would be consistent!

    I installed the Heroku command line utilities the other day. When I fired it up, the first thing it said to do was update. When I tried to update it told me update was disabled! What a silly program! Read ⇢

  • Sometime life feels like this…

    During some testing at work today we found a small (large) but in our code. I was reminded of a Gary Larson cartoon… Read ⇢

  • BeCharming has survived WACK’ing

    I put my Windows 8 App BeCharming through the Windows App Certification Kit this morning and I’m pleased to say it passed with flying colours. I’m hoping to submit the app for certificate very soon! Read ⇢

  • Do Microsoft not even rate their own browser?

    Whilst trying to signup for a Windows Developer account, I got this lovely message…. Read ⇢

  • Problems with time zones

    I’m using Office 365 to help me test time zone support in my Roomr app and I’ve ran into some interesting issues. I had to experiment with NSTimeZone and NSDate in order to make the device interact with the Exchange Web Services correctly. At present, the time zone of my… Read ⇢

  • New types of spamming with Twitter

    Yesterday, I received a very curious mention on Twitter yesterday: First off, I don’t need a job. Secondly, I don’t know where they got that idea, but I was intrigued I suppose. I opened the details of @Kileyg25. First off, the account was *very* new. I got this on the… Read ⇢

  • My first try at promoting Roomr–my room availability app

    My room availability checker Roomr was released into the AppStore on Monday. I’m going to try and see what affect marketing can have on sales of my app. It’s very much an MVP, offering just basic functionality.  I’ve had my ad served by Google Adwords, but whilst I’m getting some… Read ⇢

  • Roomr–easily find an empty meeting room!

    If you’ve ever found yourself looking for a free meeting room at the last minute, this is the app for you*! This is something that happens me quite frequently. I need to have a quick discussion with some, but can’t find a free room in which to sit down and… Read ⇢