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Simple activity notifications for your applications
As part of my work on Drinks4-You, I decided that I wanted to get an alert to my phone each time a user signs up. I’ve worked hard on the platform and the other members of the team have worked even harder on generating sales and promoting the platform, so getting a little alert each…
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Time Boxing using DayPlanner
Since reading the excellent book Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer’s Guide to Launching a Startup, I’ve been experimenting with the application of time boxing to help me work on several projects at the same time. Rob Walling suggests that every micropreneur can stay on top of multiple different projects by practicing time boxing. This…
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Planning my day – creating a new tool
I’ve just started freelancing in the middle of July and I’m currently juggling a few different clients in addition to working on my own personal projects. Within a week I ran into two problems! The first was that of managing my time efficiently. Normally I would use Harvest for time tracking, but I found that…
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Roomr for Android
It has been a long time coming, but I’m pleased to announce v1.0 for Roomr for Android is now available to download from the Google Play Store. This is very much a 1.0 release and is missing a few features that already exist in the iOS app, but I have plans to add those features…
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Selling a Roomr–How I sold some Objective-C code.
Apologies for the terrible title! I recently completed the sale of some iOS code that makes up my room booking app, Roomr (www.roomrapp.com) to a company in Belgium. A user on Twitter asked if I would write a short post on the sale and voila, here it is. To give you some background, my app…
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Introducing Commuter Pal
Commuter Pal is a new iOS app that is aiming to take a different approach to a Londoner’s commute than other existing London Underground iOS apps. THE PROBLEM Most of the current iOS apps that provide information for the London Underground are all pretty much the same. They have a status board, departure information, route…
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Negative comment for Roomr and improving sales!
In the last few weeks I’ve decided to dust off my Roomr app code and start working on a small update to it. Whilst I’m writing some new code, I decided I best start trying to drive some sales of the app, which haven’t been very strong. To try and boost downloads, I decided to…
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Be Sherlock Holmes
I’ve had an idea in my head for the past few months so I decided it was time to put it down on paper and share it. So it’s a game. A game where you assume the role of the famous detective Sherlock Holmes. I want the game to be based in London and it…
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The parts of my new PC have arrived!
After some faffin’ with courier companies (I’m looking at you UPS), all the parts of my new PC have arrived! My current PC is an Alienware rig and it is 5.5 years old, but it is really beginning to show its age. After upgrading to Windows 8 I can no longer put the machine to…
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Building a Cineworld ticket using PassVerse.com
To demonstrate how simple the PassVerse pass designer is to use, I’d put together a small walkthrough of the Passbook designer that I have created. Whilst Cineworld don’t offer tickets in Passbook fashion, this video shows how you might build a pass. A short walkthrough of making a cinema ticket with PassVerse.com Here is the…
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PassBook Designer for PassVerse
This weekend I’ve been working hard on my PassBook designer for PassVerse. So far, I’ve gotten the Coupon designer working and I’m pretty pleased with the results! You can compare my CSS based view on the left to the what is actually produced on the right. I have a few tweaks to make, but it’s…
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Making OpenID easier by becoming an OpenID provider!
During my last few lunch hours at work, I have been using the DotNetOpenAuth library to build myself an OpenID provider. Today, with some luck, I got StackOverflow to recognise my provider and allow me to sign-in using it! This is an important step toward the first version of my UShadow project. I…
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