@tomasmcguinness

  • A quick look at my Windows 8 App

    Here is a screenshot of the Windows 8 app I’m building. All the major parts of the app are in place and I’m just doing lots and lots of cleanup of both code and UI. It doesn’t look like much at the moment…. Read ⇢

  • OpenID–it’s a good idea, but nobody trusts me!

    For the past three months, my travel site www.imaybelate.com and its companion apps for iOS and WP7 have been live on the internet. Based on recent user activity, I’ve decided to make a big change to the authentication system of the site. I’m going to move away from OpenID and… Read ⇢

  • Making the features of my Windows Phone 7 app more obvious…

    As part of some changes I’m making to my IMayBeLate app, I’m toying with trying to make it more obvious what my app actually does. I’m taking out the OpenID registration and login and replacing with the more pedestrian username and password. I’m working on another blog post about why… Read ⇢

  • Adding our station information to your commute

    The feature that I’m currently implementing for IMayBeLate.com is one that will allow you to select the stations that you use on a particular line. Whilst choosing the lines you commute on, you will be given the opportunity to select the stations on that line that you use. At present… Read ⇢

  • TFL Live Status Information; My ARSE!

    I think I caught out TFL this morning. At 8AM I got a text message indicating there were minor delays between two stations on the Jubilee line, but checking two iOS Tube Apps (including my own) indicated there was a good service on the line! Text from TFL I May… Read ⇢

  • Latest changes to IMayBeLate.com

    Over the past few weeks in between planning a wedding, doing a piano exam and attending a NFC hackathon, I’ve continued to work on www.imaybelate.com, trying to add new features and improve the application overall. In the past few days I’ve submitted app updates to Apple and Microsoft for approval… Read ⇢

  • Automating multiple MSDeploy’ments using TFS

    As part of a project I’m involved with at my day-job, I wanted to setup a simple continuous deployment to complement our continuous integration. We have one solution that contains, amongst other projects, two web projects; one is the primary web application and the second is a web api project… Read ⇢

  • How to get some traction for I May Be Late

    I May Be Late has been live now for about one month and has gained 50 users at the time of writing. That’s just over one signup a day and I’m actually quite pleased by that. I’d probably have 500 users by the end of year if the rate of… Read ⇢

  • GoDaddy doesn’t want my business

    I realised today that the SSL certificate for Caffeine Club has expired so I popped over to GoDaddy to renew it and I got presented with this: That’s classic. Can GoDaddy not use a calendar? Read ⇢