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  • Moving to Windows Phone 7 from iOS–Day 1

    With Apple’s announcement of the iPhone 4S, I skipped my annual early morning efforts of pre-ordering the new handset. For the first time in three years, I wasn’t giving Apple more money! You see, two weeks ago, I picked up a Samsung Omnia 7, Windows Phone 7 handset for development… Read ⇢

  • Apple, please stop talking utter BOLL&*KS

    Anyone following the Apple announcement yesterday, should have been dismayed by Apple’s on-going, incredibly stupid  use of percentages to drive home how good they are. When comparing Lion’s adoption rate, they threw up this slide. Seriously? How can anyone fall for this shite? A simple search on Bing will reveal… Read ⇢

  • What I’d like to see from the iPhone 5

    This evening, UK time, Apple is expected to unveil its latest addition to the iPhone family, the iPhone 5. I’ve been an Apple iPhone user since 2008, when they released the iPhone 3G. I’ve owned the 3GS too and am currently using the iPhone 4. Whilst I’m not planning to… Read ⇢

  • With Microsoft, you can only live in one place. Ever!

    Last Thursday, my latest purchase arrived via courier from Expansys: A Samsung Omnia 7 Windows Phone 7! I was quite excited to get my hands on this as it would be the second Windows Phone I’ve seen. I quickly set it up and played around with it for a few… Read ⇢

  • Upgrading to Lion hasn’t been good for the Mac App Store…

    So this is the “worlds most advanced operating system” is it? I’ve upgraded Windows and never had issues like! Time for a full rebuild I think ;( Read ⇢

  • Bye, bye finance. Hello telecoms!

    As any of my twitter followers could tell you, I’m in my last week of employment at Barclays Capital, here in London. I’ve been working as a developer in the Market Risk IT department for over four years, a personal record for me. It’s not a bad job, the pay… Read ⇢

  • Windows 8 and the deathly XAML

    In Microsoft’s history, there have been few announcements that have caused more questions to be raised than Microsoft’s recent news that their new Windows 8 UI would only run application written with HTML 5 and JavaScript! The confusion in the development community was almost palpable. Almost immediately, the gossip started… Read ⇢

  • Lousy performance score for my new Lenovo

    Not a very impressive score for my brand new Lenovo Thinkpad T520 – The processor is a quad core i7 and it gets a lousy 4.7 in the performance rating… I need to play around with the power settings I think… UPDATE: Switching on the right settings and driving up… Read ⇢

  • Adding support for SVG to IIS Express

    I’m currently building a HTML 5 website, using Microsoft’s www.beautyoftheweb.com as inspiration. Taking inspiration sometimes means “borrowing” some of the graphics and styles on a site you like and incorporating them into your own work. For the purposes of education, this isn’t always a bad thing. One of the things… Read ⇢