Microsoft very recently released an early developer preview of Windows 8 – along with typical selling points such as “full screen apps”, and the unfortunate ability to only see one application at a time. Yes, unfortunate. What seems to have happened, is that Apple loved iOS and it’s successful interface …
Setting up a Macbook Pro 2011 With Bootcamp
This is by no means a difficult process, but prior to doing this, I had a few questions which were answered near perfectly by jumping in and setting up Windows 7 in Bootcamp. If you are thinking of dual-booting your Macbook Pro and getting the ultimate developer machine (or pretty …
Starfront Collision (iPad)
I don’t often review things – but this game got my attention so much I thought it was worth mentioning in better detail. Even then I haven’t explored every last detail of the game, but there’s enough to give someone the bigger picture. Normally I would be quick to point …
My Lean Mean Developer Machine
Earlier in the year I decided to splash out the rather ambitious price for a Macbook Pro. Apple had only just released the new model, so it seemed a good time to get it, without a few months later experiencing the gutted feeling of a new, much better model being …
OS X Lion – Current Personal Teething List
[Updated 15th August - green items are those which no longer occur, or a setting changed, blue means "I can live with it".] OS X Lion is an impressive deal – a “full” operating system update for £20, on all Apple computers you own, is a welcome approach considering the …
Removing the shackles
I have handed in my notice in the current company after thinking about it for over a month. The simple reason is, it is not my goal to work for someone. The only reason I would, in future, is if I have a big say in running things, or I …
MVC and Codeigniter
Codeigniter is a damn good PHP framework. Very quick, and very easy. Great. The problem though, was getting into it. Examples are typically a tiny blog application with minimal functionality – ok it gets you started, but when it comes to following the MVC structure, one problem very quickly arose …
My time, and why I am annoyed.
I am writing this because I am getting very tired of explaining the same things time and time again to people who pull a face as if i’ve just spoken some alien dialect. Maybe it is because you can’t understand what interests me. Maybe it is because I can’t understand …
11 Days
Thank you, royal family, for allowing a bank holiday to be issued for the royal wedding. Personally I won’t sit and watch it – weddings don’t interest me, and i’m sure with all the people obsessing over the lives of two people, they certainly don’t need one more person joining …
OpenGL Revisited
A quiet sunday night (or at least part of it) was enough to get stuck in with OpenGL after not using it for over a year. However this time, not on a Windows platform, but an iPhone. I am very impressed with XCode – the IDE you would be using …