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  • Importing Apple Certificate to Windows

    When generating certificates for use with iOS, be it push notifications or Passbook, it’s sometimes necessary to take these certificates and export them, so they can be used on a Windows machine. If you want to generate the certificates using only Windows, please read my post on that subject. The… Read ⇢

  • An attempt at a very simple Tube App

    In my never ending quest to release tube related apps, I’ve pondering a new idea. Current tube apps are getting very busy, showing maps, line states, departure information, journey planners, weekend works, station states, etc. I don’t deny that these apps are very feature packed and for an average price… Read ⇢

  • GetPathRoot() –a cautionary tale….

    This morning, whilst making a few changes to my dotnet-passbook library, I inadvertently ruined my PC by erasing files from my C drive. I want to pass on my tale of woe so others don’t fall into the same trap! In response to an issued raised in GitHub, I decided… Read ⇢

  • 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 ⇢