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  • Hello world!

    Welcome to WordPress.com! This is your very first post. Click the Edit link to modify or delete it, or start a new post. If you like, use this post to tell readers why you started this blog and what you plan to do with it. Happy blogging!

  • Azure sure starts a lot of processes

    Running 6 roles on my development machine eats up a lot of RAM – this is part of the reason why…

  • Implementing a custom performance counter

    After some playing around, I’ve finally managed to get my custom performance counter up and running so I thought I’d share the basics. For IMayBeLate, I want to get an idea of how many emails are being generated. The second version of my site (2.0) isn’t live yet, but I thought it might be a…

  • Generating an Apple iOS certificate using Windows

    When using any services for your iOS device such as Push Notifications, you need to generate a certificate. It’s quite simple when using Mac OS X as all Apple’s instructions are geared towards it. What do you do, however, if you’re using a Windows machine. There are a few more steps involved, but the whole…

  • My first OSS project is on GitHub

    On my way home last night I was thinking about Apple’s new Passbook feature that’s coming with iOS 6 later this year. I wanted to know a little more about it so, as I sat on the boat, I opened the PDF and started reading. It’s a short document so I skimmed over it pretty…

  • Recruiter has done it again

    Another amazing job on offer!

  • I’ll take that job, even on half the offered salary!

    Got this email from a recruitment agency the other day…. Even half the offered salary would be fantastic!

  • I May Be Late and WiFi on the London Underground

    So a lot of people are asking me about how I May Be Late will deal with the addition of WiFi to the London underground this summer. As a tube user I really welcome this move from TFL. It has taken a significant amount of time to make this dream a reality and I’m sure…

  • Apple’s bandwidth limits are getting ridiculous!

  • 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….

  • 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 back to the standard username…

  • 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 I’m doing this, so I’ll…