Blogs

After a post on FaceBook about enjoying some Bubble Tea, a friend of mine suggested that I should blog about it. Seeing as I am currently in Thailand, home of the best food in the world, I guess it makes sense to extend this to all food. Most of my meals are incredible food cooked fresh and …

I’ve been playing with Xamarin.Forms recently to develop an iOS app. The aim is to use my portable open source Plex API in the app (more details of the app will come later once it’s ready to release). The basic concept of Xamarin.Forms is to have a core portable class library containing …

I’ve just released the first alpha version of Complexion, available on my GitHub page. This is my first true open source API, which I hope to put up on NuGet in the near future. This is a portable .Net API that connects to Plex - either to a local Plex Media Server specified by it’s IP …

As the title really, why can’t all laptops use the same charger - including laptops from the same company. I’ve trvelled 45 minutes to the co-working space I’m working at only to find I’ve forgotten my MacBook Pro charger, and it’s only got 10% left. I have my Surface …

Portable class libraries (or PCLs) are the flavour of the month at the moment. They are a .net library designed to be cross platform - so they work just as well on Windows 8 as they do on Xamarin. Where Microsoft are supporting Xamarin as much as possible, they are releasing a number of their core …

After changing my avatars, I decided to update my Ghost blog to show my new avatar as the icon in the browser/bookmarks and springboard icon on iPhones/iPads. Coming at this with limited HTML/Web experience I had no idea where to start, so thought I’d write this as a guid to help anyone else …

When starting to develop your online brand, there is many things to consider, including how the world sees you. The first thing anyone looking at your public profiles will see is your avatar - the image you use to define who you are. As there are so many different social networks or areas with …

I’m taking some time out - just a couple of weeks. Spending time with my family in the UK before moving to Thailand to start my adventure in the world of startups and journeyman programming. Will be back and blogging again soon.

Now that I’m (almost) out of the rat race and working on my own apps, I though it was time to create a website to host my work. I haven’t got a company set up yet (that’s coming soon) but I’ve been watching a rather excellent Pluralsight training course on the MEAN stack. In …

As I’ve mentioned before, I’m taking 6-9 months out of the rat race so I can do my own thing, including learning some new skills to take into the world of work. The skills in question are HTML/Javascript and Xamarin. Javascript is becoming ubiquitous, it’s the assembly language of …

As you’ve probably seen from my other posts, I’m developing iOS apps using Visual Studio on Windows as my development environment, and a MacBook Pro for running the actual builds. This is a pain when I want to test. As good as Ripple is, it’s not as good as the actual iOS …

Today the pull request for my first ever contribution to someone else’s open source project was accepted and merged. It was a small bug fix to Framework7 - a really cool HTML5 framework for building iOS 7 style apps. I’m using it for my first cordova project and what it outputs looks …