On the iPhone homescreen...

Posted by Nathan Wong on 25th July 2011
Apple has a problem. When the iPhone was originally released, it was widely lauded as being incredibly easy to use. The user interface was great at allowing any non-technical user to pick the phone up and immediately start using even some of its more complicated features. Four years later, iOS5 remains visually almost identical to the software's original release.

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Reusing code and repaying technical debt

Posted by Mike Caisey on 22nd July 2011
Reducing delivery times by reusing code and repaying technical debt in the process.

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Free, automated tweeting of Blog posts via RSS

Posted by Stuart Forster on 21st July 2011
Tagged: blog, Google, twitter, posts

Blog - Automated Tweeting

If you have any RSS feed and was looking for a way to automatically tweet everytime you make a blog/news post - here's a quick tip on a not so known feature of Google's Feedburner and how to use it to automatically tweet your recent posts.

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Windows Phone 7 hands-on

Posted by Nathan Wong on 15th July 2011

Earlier this week I got my hands on a Windows Phone 7 handset, and have been using it extensively over the last few days to get as familiar with the platform as possible.

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Black-box testing file uploads using Zend_Http_Client

Posted by Mike Caisey on 15th July 2011
Tagged: TDD
Black-box testing file uploads using Zend_Http_Client with example.

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On Google+

Posted by Nathan Wong on 8th July 2011

Last week, Google finally unveiled their eagerly awaited new social-networking platform: Google+.

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A cool chrome extension that implements the reader functionality found in Safari

Posted by Mike Caisey on 8th July 2011
Tagged: Chrome
A cool chrome extension that implements the reader functionality found in Safari.

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Simple links in android

Posted by Nathan Wong on 4th July 2011
Tagged: code, android

There are few things that give a developer more pleasure than finding those small functions and helpful methods that can save huge amounts of work in development. When developing Android apps, one of my very favourite is the Linkify, a small, powerful and configurable utility that automatically adds links to any block of text that you're displaying in your Activity's views.

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Fonts and their usage on the web

Posted by Stuart Forster on 1st July 2011

Recently, it's become quite prevalent to use custom and non-default fonts on a website. Even though services are popping up left right and centre some of the most commonly used fonts in print are still not available on the web.

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Important information to know about your gmail account

Posted by Mike Caisey on 1st July 2011
Tagged: Security, Gmail
I read a sobering article the other day about a gmail account that got hacked and the perpetrators started phising the contacts list for money. The account was compromised 2 more times to that person whilst they were using the account and had just got it back under control.

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