7 days with the iPad
So it has been 7 days since buying an iPad. Has it been the life changing event promised by all the pre-launch advertising? In my case I don’t think my life has changed but it has been enhanced …
So it has been 7 days since buying an iPad. Has it been the life changing event promised by all the pre-launch advertising? In my case I don’t think my life has changed but it has been enhanced …
I have been catching up on my reading recently and one of the books I have been trying looking forward to reading is ReleaseIt. I had heard very good things about the book and to my delight they are …
I had a few moments today to get reacquainted with Ruby and Rails programming. It has been a while but I have found time to watch the occasional Railscast. I want to watch these videos while on the …
There are some quirks to the way the apple bluetooth keyboard works with the iPad. Most of the keys work as you might expect and the pairing system works just fine. There is no real way to navigate …
Today I took my new iPad for a day at work: A colleague had a 3G card for his laptop and shared the connection. Strangely this caused the iPad to pause quite often as if it were trying to connect to …
There has been a lot of hype around the iPad and I have to confess that after watching the original advertisement I was hooked. But was all the hype justified? On first use if you are an iPhone user …
Post/Redirect/Get or Redirect after Post is an HTTP interaction pattern that can be used when developing web applications. I have been mentioning it quite a few times in my consulting work and thought …
Internet Relay Chat (IRC) has been around for a very long time (1988) and Instant Messaging (IM) for even longer – although IM did not become really popular until the mid 90’s with the emergence …
Why do application developers think that adding more functionality is always a good thing for the user? When I first started working on GUI applications (Windows 1.0) we worked very hard to get …
 As anyone who knows me will say I have a thing about keyboards and have a few in my current collection. On a whim today I …