The thankfully infrequent ramblings of another guy on the internet.

Business : Development

coding

Somehow I've been writing code for a living for 20 odd years now. During that time I think I've spent some time as almost all of the stereotypical developer types, including:

  • The new guy who thinks he knows better than everyone else.
  • The old hand with a whopping two years experience who definitely knows it all now.
  • The team leader who has to deal with newbies who think they know everything.

And so on.

Launching in 3... 2...

If you've just migrated to XCode 7 and your app is appearing slightly letter-boxed with black bars at the top and bottom then this might help. Apparently the root issue is that storyboards now expect to have a launch image and something in the process…

Need a holiday

Everyone goes away for a summer break right? Well not me. Not usually anyway. But a couple of days ago we got back from our first proper family holiday in.. well, ever really. We went all in and did the Disney world Florida thing, with…

The application of beans

I’ve had my mid-life crisis, sorry, sports car for several years now. It mostly sits on the drive looking angry and collecting bird crap. We have a strange relationship. I fuss over it, needlessly worrying about the smallest thing and hate parking it anywhere in…