Posts by Category

3 Home Signal

• Sky Anytime, Routers and 3 Home Signal 26 May 2013

ASP.Net

• ASP.Net Compilation Tool - do you want to allow updates without redeploying? 24 Sep 2008

AWS Lambda

• Building an Alexa Skill 30 Nov 2016

Accelerator

• An IE8 Accelerator for sharing on Posterous 18 Oct 2009

AirPrint

• Raspberry Pi Adventures 11 Dec 2016

Alexa

• My Cool (and even more over-engineered) Shopping List System 2.0 05 Feb 2017
• My Cool (but completely over-engineered) Shopping List System 01 Dec 2016
• Building an Alexa Skill 30 Nov 2016

Amazon

• A Workflow to open an Amazon US page in the local Amazon site 04 Jan 2017

Amazon Echo

• My Cool (and even more over-engineered) Shopping List System 2.0 05 Feb 2017
• My Cool (but completely over-engineered) Shopping List System 01 Dec 2016
• Building an Alexa Skill 30 Nov 2016

Android

• My new super cheap Android phone 03 Jan 2017
• Android vs. iOS Development 08 Jun 2016
• Yeltzland Android app released 30 May 2016

AngularJS

• Daily Optimiser Alpha Release 01 Oct 2013
• Client-side development with AngularJS and Firebase 04 Aug 2013

Animation

• Animating Progress 01 Mar 2015

Apps

• Paying to remove ads 11 Apr 2017
• Why I put ads in my app 12 Feb 2017
• Moving 'Count The Days Left' to Swift 3 27 Jan 2017
• Building an iMessage app 02 Oct 2016
• Getting Ready For iOS 10 Widgets 12 Aug 2016
• More Reliable Background Notifications 09 Jun 2016
• Swift and Watch Performance Improvements 14 Apr 2016
• A Minor Change and we're through the App Store Review 07 Feb 2016
• Inconsistent and Illogical App Store Review 17 Jan 2016
• App Store Issues with Watch Update 30 Dec 2015
• watchOS 2 Complication Update Issue 21 Oct 2015
• Count The Days Left v2.0 Summary 17 Oct 2015
• watchOS 2 Complications Complications 15 Oct 2015
• Testing a watchOS 2 app directly on the watch 11 Oct 2015
• Synching user settings on watchOS 2 02 Oct 2015
• Updating code to watchOS 2 30 Sep 2015
• WatchOS Development Phase 2 29 Sep 2015
• What I Didn't Know When I Was Young 05 Jul 2015
• App Development using Swift - A Summary 15 Apr 2015
• Pushing a WatchKit app to the AppStore 03 Apr 2015
• Count The Days Left released 31 Mar 2015
• Playing With WatchKit 22 Mar 2015
• Waiting For Review 21 Mar 2015
• Getting Ready to Ship Swift 14 Mar 2015
• Counting Weekdays Between Two Dates 09 Mar 2015
• Animating Progress 01 Mar 2015
• Swift and Build Odds and Sods 22 Feb 2015
• Adding a Custom Control 19 Feb 2015
• A Today Widget in Swift 18 Feb 2015
• Basic UI in Swift 18 Feb 2015
• Porting UserSettings code to Swift 16 Feb 2015
• Baby Steps with Swift 11 Feb 2015
• Plan for DaysLeft app 04 Feb 2015
• An update, and a plan 18 Jan 2015

Azure

• Azure vs Firebase for iOS push notifications 29 May 2016
• Total Remote Working 01 Dec 2013

Bedside Clock App

• Bedside Clock removed from App Store 27 May 2013
• Bedside Clock code now on Github 06 Apr 2013
• Final version of my Bedside Clock app shipped for Windows Phone 8 02 Mar 2013
• Bedside Clock v3.0.1.0 for WP7 release notes 09 Nov 2012
• Version 3 of Bedside Clock App Shipped 28 Jan 2012

Bing Translate

• Taken Down by Microsoft Lawyers 12 Jul 2016
• Updating my Chrome extension to manifest version 2 14 Jul 2012

Blogging

• Consolidating Some Old Posts 08 Jan 2017
• Writing a Category Index Page for Jekyll 06 Jan 2017
• Blogging on the iPad 01 Jan 2017
• Adding Twitter Cards 22 Feb 2015
• Consolidating Old Blog Posts 24 May 2014
• Posterous is Dead. Long Live Github Pages and Jekyll 16 Feb 2013
• Adventures in Posterous template design 15 Jul 2012

Bootstrap

• Adventures in Posterous template design 15 Jul 2012

C#

• Using Fire Eagle to store your current location 29 Nov 2008
• Starting off a new process 01 Nov 2006
• Using SelectSingleNode (or SelectNodes) on XML where the default namespace has been set 12 Nov 2005

Chrome Extension

• Updating my Chrome extension to manifest version 2 14 Jul 2012

Count The Days Left

• Paying to remove ads 11 Apr 2017
• Why I put ads in my app 12 Feb 2017
• Moving 'Count The Days Left' to Swift 3 27 Jan 2017
• Building an iMessage app 02 Oct 2016
• Getting Ready For iOS 10 Widgets 12 Aug 2016
• More Reliable Background Notifications 09 Jun 2016
• Swift and Watch Performance Improvements 14 Apr 2016
• A Minor Change and we're through the App Store Review 07 Feb 2016
• Inconsistent and Illogical App Store Review 17 Jan 2016
• App Store Issues with Watch Update 30 Dec 2015
• watchOS 2 Complication Update Issue 21 Oct 2015
• Count The Days Left v2.0 Summary 17 Oct 2015
• watchOS 2 Complications Complications 15 Oct 2015
• Testing a watchOS 2 app directly on the watch 11 Oct 2015
• Synching user settings on watchOS 2 02 Oct 2015
• Updating code to watchOS 2 30 Sep 2015
• WatchOS Development Phase 2 29 Sep 2015
• App Development using Swift - A Summary 15 Apr 2015
• Pushing a WatchKit app to the AppStore 03 Apr 2015
• Count The Days Left released 31 Mar 2015
• Playing With WatchKit 22 Mar 2015
• Waiting For Review 21 Mar 2015
• Getting Ready to Ship Swift 14 Mar 2015
• Counting Weekdays Between Two Dates 09 Mar 2015
• Animating Progress 01 Mar 2015
• Swift and Build Odds and Sods 22 Feb 2015
• Adding a Custom Control 19 Feb 2015
• A Today Widget in Swift 18 Feb 2015
• Basic UI in Swift 18 Feb 2015
• Porting UserSettings code to Swift 16 Feb 2015
• Baby Steps with Swift 11 Feb 2015
• Plan for DaysLeft app 04 Feb 2015

Daily Optimiser

• Getting Ready For iOS 10 Widgets 12 Aug 2016
• Daily Optimiser v3.2.0 Available 06 Jun 2016
• Less is More 04 May 2016
• Daily Optimiser v3.0.1 Available 16 Mar 2016
• Daily Optimiser now available for the iPhone 01 Dec 2015
• What I Didn't Know When I Was Young 05 Jul 2015
• Daily Optimiser Alpha Release 01 Oct 2013

Development

• Day One with my Mac 10 Nov 2013
• Developing for Heroku and Node.js on Windows 23 Apr 2013
• Moving from Mercurial to Git 06 Jun 2012
• A new app a month? Who was I kidding! 04 Jun 2012
• A whole load of useful dev resources 05 Feb 2012
• Planning about Planning, and Planning 15 Jan 2012
• 2012 - Year of Code (and Shipping!) 05 Jan 2012

Digital Ocean

• Web Server Consolidation 29 Feb 2016

Domain Names

• Problem with underscores in domain names in IE 25 Nov 2015

Facebook

• A Social Media Cleanup 07 Jan 2017

Facebook App

• Shipped Weight Tracker Facebook App 26 Feb 2012

Firebase

• Azure vs Firebase for iOS push notifications 29 May 2016
• Client-side development with AngularJS and Firebase 04 Aug 2013

Fireeagle

• Linking Fire Eagle and Twitter 06 Dec 2008
• Using Fire Eagle to store your current location 29 Nov 2008
• Showing my current location using Virtual Earth 02 Nov 2008

Garmin

• Experiments with my Garmin GPS and Windows Live Maps 22 Jan 2009

Git

• Moving from Mercurial to Git 06 Jun 2012

GitHub

• Trello vs GitHub Projects. Power vs Simplicity 10 Jan 2017

Github

• Bedside Clock code now on Github 06 Apr 2013
• Posterous is Dead. Long Live Github Pages and Jekyll 16 Feb 2013

Heroku

• Developing for Heroku and Node.js on Windows 23 Apr 2013

Hosting

• Web Server Consolidation 29 Feb 2016

IFTTT

• My Cool (and even more over-engineered) Shopping List System 2.0 05 Feb 2017
• My Cool (but completely over-engineered) Shopping List System 01 Dec 2016

IIS

• Rebooting a web server remotely using iisreset 18 Feb 2006

Instagram

• A Social Media Cleanup 07 Jan 2017

Installer

• Finding currently installed MSIs 14 Nov 2006

Internet Explorer

• Problem with underscores in domain names in IE 25 Nov 2015
• An IE8 Accelerator for sharing on Posterous 18 Oct 2009
• CTRL + Click opens new tab in IE7 18 Dec 2006

JavaScript

• Raspberry Pi Adventures 11 Dec 2016
• Building an Alexa Skill 30 Nov 2016
• Using JIMP to build an iOS icon resizer 05 Dec 2015
• Daily Optimiser Alpha Release 01 Oct 2013
• Client-side development with AngularJS and Firebase 04 Aug 2013
• Using Fire Eagle to store your current location 29 Nov 2008
• Showing my current location using Virtual Earth 02 Nov 2008
• debugger command in JavaScript 09 Jul 2007

Jekyll

• Writing a Category Index Page for Jekyll 06 Jan 2017
• Web Server Consolidation 29 Feb 2016
• Posterous is Dead. Long Live Github Pages and Jekyll 16 Feb 2013

Location

• Experiments with my Garmin GPS and Windows Live Maps 22 Jan 2009
• Linking Fire Eagle and Twitter 06 Dec 2008
• Using Fire Eagle to store your current location 29 Nov 2008
• Showing my current location using Virtual Earth 02 Nov 2008

LogMeIn

• Total Remote Working 01 Dec 2013

MSDN

• Super-fast MSDN 09 Nov 2008

Mac

• Day One with my Mac 10 Nov 2013

Maps

• Experiments with my Garmin GPS and Windows Live Maps 22 Jan 2009
• Showing my current location using Virtual Earth 02 Nov 2008

Medium

• A Workflow to upload web content to Medium 12 Jan 2017

Microsoft

• Taken Down by Microsoft Lawyers 12 Jul 2016

MongoDB

• Daily Optimiser Alpha Release 01 Oct 2013

MySQL

• Porting old ASP/Access code to PHP/MySQL 06 Jan 2013

Netgear

• Sky Anytime, Routers and 3 Home Signal 26 May 2013

NodeJS

• Developing for Heroku and Node.js on Windows 23 Apr 2013

PHP

• Porting old ASP/Access code to PHP/MySQL 06 Jan 2013

Performance Counters

• Performance Counters Fun 07 Mar 2007

Personal

• An update, and a plan 18 Jan 2015
• My Next Challenge 03 Jul 2014
• And the winner is ... iPhone 09 Mar 2013
• Choosing a new phone 26 Feb 2013
• Leaving Microsoft (again) but back at Bing (again) 23 Feb 2013
• From Bing To Skype 28 Aug 2012

Phone

• And the winner is ... iPhone 09 Mar 2013
• Choosing a new phone 26 Feb 2013

Pixagogo

• Pixagogo Out 03 Jun 2016
• Pixagogo lives a little longer 03 May 2016

Posterous

• An IE8 Accelerator for sharing on Posterous 18 Oct 2009

Productivity

• Trello vs GitHub Projects. Power vs Simplicity 10 Jan 2017

Push Notifications

• Azure vs Firebase for iOS push notifications 29 May 2016

RSS

• Linking Fire Eagle and Twitter 06 Dec 2008

Raspberry Pi

• Raspberry Pi Adventures 11 Dec 2016

Remote Working

• Total Remote Working 01 Dec 2013

SQL Server

• Using a parameter in a SELECT TOP statement in SQL 13 Nov 2007
• SQL Parameters and Types 13 Apr 2007

Siri

• Thoughts on the future of iOS automation 07 Apr 2017

Sky Anytime

• Sky Anytime, Routers and 3 Home Signal 26 May 2013

Slack

• My Cool (and even more over-engineered) Shopping List System 2.0 05 Feb 2017
• Raspberry Pi Adventures 11 Dec 2016
• Slack as a General Purpose Notification System 04 Dec 2016

Swift

• Paying to remove ads 11 Apr 2017
• Why I put ads in my app 12 Feb 2017
• Moving 'Count The Days Left' to Swift 3 27 Jan 2017
• More Reliable Background Notifications 09 Jun 2016
• Swift and Watch Performance Improvements 14 Apr 2016
• A Minor Change and we're through the App Store Review 07 Feb 2016
• Inconsistent and Illogical App Store Review 17 Jan 2016
• App Store Issues with Watch Update 30 Dec 2015
• watchOS 2 Complication Update Issue 21 Oct 2015
• Count The Days Left v2.0 Summary 17 Oct 2015
• watchOS 2 Complications Complications 15 Oct 2015
• Testing a watchOS 2 app directly on the watch 11 Oct 2015
• Synching user settings on watchOS 2 02 Oct 2015
• Updating code to watchOS 2 30 Sep 2015
• WatchOS Development Phase 2 29 Sep 2015
• App Development using Swift - A Summary 15 Apr 2015
• Pushing a WatchKit app to the AppStore 03 Apr 2015
• Count The Days Left released 31 Mar 2015
• Playing With WatchKit 22 Mar 2015
• Waiting For Review 21 Mar 2015
• Getting Ready to Ship Swift 14 Mar 2015
• Counting Weekdays Between Two Dates 09 Mar 2015
• Animating Progress 01 Mar 2015
• Swift and Build Odds and Sods 22 Feb 2015
• Adding a Custom Control 19 Feb 2015
• A Today Widget in Swift 18 Feb 2015
• Basic UI in Swift 18 Feb 2015
• Porting UserSettings code to Swift 16 Feb 2015
• Baby Steps with Swift 11 Feb 2015

Tip

• ASP.Net Compilation Tool - do you want to allow updates without redeploying? 24 Sep 2008
• Using a parameter in a SELECT TOP statement in SQL 13 Nov 2007
• debugger command in JavaScript 09 Jul 2007
• Rebooting a web server remotely using iisreset 18 Feb 2006

Todoist

• My Cool (and even more over-engineered) Shopping List System 2.0 05 Feb 2017
• Slack as a General Purpose Notification System 04 Dec 2016
• My Cool (but completely over-engineered) Shopping List System 01 Dec 2016

Toolbar

• Fixing an issue with Windows Live Toolbar and Favorites Sync 22 Dec 2008

Trello

• Trello vs GitHub Projects. Power vs Simplicity 10 Jan 2017

Twitter

• A Social Media Cleanup 07 Jan 2017
• Adding Twitter Cards 22 Feb 2015
• Linking Fire Eagle and Twitter 06 Dec 2008

Unit Tests

• Running Visual Studio Unit Tests in NUnit GUI 01 Nov 2006
• Copying files needed for Visual Studio 2005 Unit Tests 05 Dec 2005

Visual Studio

• Consolidating Old Blog Posts 24 May 2014
• Changing the type of a Visual Studio project 17 Oct 2010
• Running Visual Studio Unit Tests in NUnit GUI 01 Nov 2006
• Delete and return keys not working in Visual Studio 2005 21 Dec 2005
• Copying files needed for Visual Studio 2005 Unit Tests 05 Dec 2005

WatchOS

• My WatchOS 3 Wish List 02 May 2016

Windows

• Windows as a runaway truck 02 Jan 2017
• Developing for Heroku and Node.js on Windows 23 Apr 2013
• Performance Counters Fun 07 Mar 2007
• Finding currently installed MSIs 14 Nov 2006
• Starting off a new process 01 Nov 2006
• Rebooting a web server remotely using iisreset 18 Feb 2006
• Windows ISA Client 2004 has a browser tab! 16 Nov 2005

Windows Live

• Experiments with my Garmin GPS and Windows Live Maps 22 Jan 2009
• Fixing an issue with Windows Live Toolbar and Favorites Sync 22 Dec 2008
• Cool tip when using Windows Live Local 02 Mar 2006

Windows Phone

• Bedside Clock removed from App Store 27 May 2013
• Bedside Clock code now on Github 06 Apr 2013
• Final version of my Bedside Clock app shipped for Windows Phone 8 02 Mar 2013
• Choosing a new phone 26 Feb 2013
• Bedside Clock v3.0.1.0 for WP7 release notes 09 Nov 2012
• A whole load of useful dev resources 05 Feb 2012
• Version 3 of Bedside Clock App Shipped 28 Jan 2012

Workflow

• Thoughts on the future of iOS automation 07 Apr 2017
• A Workflow to upload web content to Medium 12 Jan 2017
• A Workflow to open an Amazon US page in the local Amazon site 04 Jan 2017

XCode

• Starting with XCode 16 Nov 2013

XML Namespaces

• Using SelectSingleNode (or SelectNodes) on XML where the default namespace has been set 12 Nov 2005

Yeltzland

• Building an Alexa Skill 30 Nov 2016
• Getting Ready For iOS 10 Widgets 12 Aug 2016
• Yeltzland Android app released 30 May 2016
• Azure vs Firebase for iOS push notifications 29 May 2016
• I made a Yeltzland iPhone/iPad app 11 May 2016

iMessage

• Building an iMessage app 02 Oct 2016

iOS

• Thoughts on the future of iOS automation 07 Apr 2017
• A Short iOS 10.3 iPad Wish List 05 Jan 2017
• Android vs. iOS Development 08 Jun 2016
• Daily Optimiser v3.2.0 Available 06 Jun 2016
• Azure vs Firebase for iOS push notifications 29 May 2016
• I made a Yeltzland iPhone/iPad app 11 May 2016
• Less is More 04 May 2016
• Daily Optimiser v3.0.1 Available 16 Mar 2016
• Using JIMP to build an iOS icon resizer 05 Dec 2015
• Daily Optimiser now available for the iPhone 01 Dec 2015
• What I Didn't Know When I Was Young 05 Jul 2015
• Starting with XCode 16 Nov 2013

iPad

• A Short iOS 10.3 iPad Wish List 05 Jan 2017
• Blogging on the iPad 01 Jan 2017

jQuery

• Making a JQuery Slideshow 09 Jun 2012