Last year I used WWDCAlerts for WWDC 2012. My alert arrived two hours after the tickets were released. Luckily a friend let me know and I booked a ticket. This year I thought it be better to do it myself using Ruby and PushOver – a mobile alerting service for Android/iOS. Here’s how to setup a [...]
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Determine the NSIndexPath of a UITableViewCell when a sub-view is tapped
I do a fair amount of iOS consulting work for clients who have outsourced their iOS code development. My work usually involves code review and final steps to help them successfully submit their app to the App Store. While it will always work out cheaper for my clients to outsource (usually offshore), the quality of [...]
Baseball Coin
Baseball Coin is a baseball salary app for viewing team and payroll info for professional baseball players.
iOS – Playing audio in the background
Tips, tricks when playing background audio in an iOS app.
Fonzi
Fonzi is a musical Jukebox. It allows users to play and queue songs for playback at parties through one host. Fonzi is well suited for parties, but can be used anywhere for playing and listening to music with friends, or people in the office. All you’ll need is speakers, Wifi or 3G, and some music. [...]
jTribe Apps
Freelance work with jTribe. Developed an iPhone app for the Melbourne area for a large customer service organisation. App is currently in testing. More details to follow as soon as the app goes live!
Backing up and restoring mySQL databases
I’m always hunting around for backup and restore commands when migrating my WordPress blogs. I use these commands frequently when backing up or restoring mySQL databases.
Schedule iTunes to download Podcasts
Apple recently released all video sessions for WWDC 2011. That’s about 24 GB for the SD sessions. If you’re like me you might be limited by some archaic ISP data usage cap. I have on-peak (8am-2am) and off-peak (2a-8a) usage times with my monthly usage cap split between the two. Hopefully you’re not like me. [...]
Splitting your WordPress blog posts with ‘Read More’
Sometimes you just want to split your WordPress blog post up into a couple of paragraphs, followed by a ‘Read More’ link to the full posting. I do most of my digging in other frameworks and languages, so my WordPress customization skills are limited. I’ll install it, throw up a theme and do some basic customizations [...]
Yellow Pages iPad
Freelance developer at Sensis. Collaborated within a team environment using agile methodologies to successfully deliver Yellow Pages iPad Australia to the app store. App won a ‘Best New Service or Application’ at the 2011 Australian Mobile Awards