Category: Apple
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Building an iPad App
For the last six months I’ve been quietly working away on an iPad app with the goal to get experience developing for iOS. Given that there are many alternate routes a developer can take, the politics of choosing technologies to adopt are quite polarising, with a titanic struggle currently underway between vendor, enterprise and the…
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Learning iPad Development
The iPad is described as a Post PC device and part of what is known as Ubiquitous Computing (described by Wikipedia as “Machines that fit the human environment instead of forcing humans to enter theirs”). Plenty of debate can be expected about the future of tablets, but rather than try to intellectualise, I just follow…
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Thank God the French exist
For the past decade I have been bombarded with the advice that web technology (HTML, CSS & Javascript) is the future of software development. Now that the desktop era has given way to the mobile era I find proponents of web technology again saying that web technology is the future for mobile apps. This is…
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Evaluating OS X Lion
My Summer challenge has been to evaluate OS X Lion as a computing platform, from the perspective of both a user and a software developer. With a new MacBook Pro, trackpad, keyboard and my existing Samsung monitor, I resolved to go cold turkey on Windows. As a user I’ve quickly got up to speed and…
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Introducing Do
The past few months I’ve been busy building an app for Windows Phone 7.5 (Mango). Do is a Todo list with reminders that will help you to get the important tasks done. Do uses many technologies introduced in the Mango update including SQL CE database, Reminders and Live Tiles. The UI makes extensive use of…
Mark Brownsword 