I realize I haven’t been blogging a lot about what I’ve been up to in the last few months so thought I’d better get a post out and share some of those things with you. Cocoon P2P The open source Cocoon P2P library has been released and got Dirk Eismann on board as a contributor read more
Category Archives: Apple
Surprise, I’ve bought an iPad
I’m certainly not Apple’s biggest fan these last few months, there’s a lot left to be desired around many of their company policies, openness and developer relations. That said I did get an iPad today. Why? In many ways this device is breaking new ground in a tablet form factor that is going to be read more
Apple versus developers – this time it’s personal
3.3.1 — Applications may only use Documented APIs in the manner prescribed by Apple and must not use or call any private APIs. Applications must be originally written in Objective-C, C, C++, or JavaScript as executed by the iPhone OS WebKit engine, and only code written in C, C++, and Objective-C may compile and directly read more
Flash across screens and devices
Exciting times if you’re working with Flash Platform technologies, the idea of deploying the same codebase to multiple screens is really taking shape and I for one couldn’t be happier. AIR already allowed us to go cross platform with desktop apps (Windows, Mac and Linux), obviously the Flash Player allows the same across browsers and read more
Trying out the iPad browsing experience
I did a little experiment this morning, disabling plug-ins in my browser aka “the iPad experience”. See where things start to break down? The Apple iPad web browsing experience, not quite what you expect. Yes, there are native apps for a number of these sites (social gaming on Facebook anyone?) I’m specifically talking about the read more
Apple’s idea of the best web browsing experience
Just hours after the product got announced, a lot has already been said and written about the Apple iPad and I don’t particularly feel I have a lot to add except for that “one more thing”. I’ve been working almost exclusively on Mac for about five years now and its a decision I’ve never regretted. read more