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  • 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 TFL separate their status information…

  • 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 Be Late Tube Deluxe I…

  • 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 and rolled out an updated…

  • 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 containing our REST based API.…

  • 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 signups stayed the same. However,…

  • 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?

  • Finally! It’s been a long road, but I eventually got there!

    After plenty of twists and turns, I finally got the app published! You can buy it here!

  • Another week, another rejection from Apple

    Not a week goes by where I don’t get get a rejection from Apple To give you some background, I first submitted my I May Be Late app for review back in January. The 26th of January 2012 to be precise. Apple initially rejected my app for reasons I didn’t quite fully understand and I…

  • Dealing with rejection. Apple, OpenID and my app!

    So, over the past two weeks, I have submitted my new I May Be Late app to Apple twice and they have rejected my app twice. This has left me feeling rather frustrated and a little disheartened. My app is a companion to my new web application I May Be Late which is designed to…

  • A designer! A designer! My Kingdom for a designer!

    On the 6th of Jan, I sent out a request on twitter asking people to give me feedback on IMayBeLate.com. I had done the design of the site myself and, to be honest, I was feeling pretty smug. And boy-oh-boy did I get a kick in the proverbial pants! The tweet I sent was this:…

  • iTunes Match prevents track skipping on iOS

    I recently signed up for iTunes Match and am very pleased with the service. But recently I noticed some annoying behaviour on the iPhone. As a fan of the Valve game Portal 2, I had downloaded the free soundtrack provided by Valve. Since this isn’t available on iTunes, the iTunes match software uploaded the album…

  • Nice use of a Windows Phone 7 live tile?

    Work on my first Windows Phone 7 app (www.imaybelate.com) is drawing very close to completion and I’m now spending a little time getting some of the details right. Until I find another bug anyway Part of my app’s functionality is the ability to update the Live Tile with information about the user’s commute to and…