Monthly Archives: February 2009

Project Evaluation: SWAP

This application was centered around a small service SIM card ordering and swapping + tracer bullet development, good but not completely accomplished – back-end not working properly + better specs, not perfect but better + outlining and development of test strategy based on previous projects – resource allocation, me doing layout + using SUPER class [...]

Accomplishments

Today was my last day with my largest client. I have been working for them almost continuously for 3 years – in an attempt to sort address my disappointment with their decision to outsource all development I sad down and wrote up this list of things I have accomplished. Customized application build and deployment tool, [...]

Piratebay vs. TDC (or I want my torrents)

The other day I wanted to download some torrents. I picked the mirror closest to me, which happened to be the well known Pirate Bay located in the neighboring country Sweden. The following URL (http://torrents.thepiratebay.org/), presented me with the following. (http://usr.bin.dk/~jonasbn/pics/tdc_vs_piratebay.png) The message comes from my ISP – TDC. Is is stating that TDC are [...]

Magenta is NOT a colour

Have been working for a client now for 3 years where the primary colour of everything has been magenta. Ovid’s tweet on an article stating that magenta is not a colour – really got my interest sparked, at least for the humorous part. Well all my colleagues who would find it amusing have been informed.

Google vs. Spam

I have since the start up of my company, had my mail hosted with one of my friends. This has worked magnificently. But I started considering moving to Google Apps, due to the amount of spam received and my friends (understandable) lack of time to keep the spam filters up to date (he is a [...]

iPhone Simulator Problem

I started coding on an iPhone app in Xcode yesterday. This is my first experiment and it was a very basic “Hello World” application. When it built and spawned the iPhone Simulator nothing happened. The simulator had worked from Dashcode, but apparently not any longer… It took some time before I located the error message [...]