December 2011
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“Coffee is a way of stealing time that should by rights belong to your older...”
– Terry Pratchett via Rancilio’s newsletter (via consciousstartups)
Dec 16th
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October 2011
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Site down, SITE DOWN!
The website was down for a little bit today. Not the blog (♥ Tumblr), but our actual website which needs to be up so people can get in touch re: work (aside: we’re looking for work). This is not ideal. So, what gives? Well, we’re hosted on Heroku - which is great (we ♥ Heroku also). I thought this must be some sort of mistake, so I restarted the server: $ heroku restart This...
Oct 10th
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September 2011
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Sep 29th
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We're here, now.
Previously blogging as Three’s a Company on Posterous, we’ve decided it made sense to blog as our “Public” persona, Naked Apps.   So welcome, friend, to Naked Thought.
Sep 29th
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All times ship
We’ve all read blog posts that tell you to release your software product while you’re still embarrased.  ”Ship” they say.  What do they know?  Once you’ve released your product, people will judge you.  Surely it’s better to wait a little bit longer and release something polished.  The first impression is important, and your product sure as hell isn’t...
Sep 22nd
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August 2011
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The story of the App Store and the gloss
Since I spent all of 30 minutes solving this problem I thought it may be a useful titbit for others! Already well documented in the iOS Human Interface Guidelines: to remove gloss from your application AND app store icons you simply set the UIPrerenderedIcon setting in the Info.plist to YES. Great. So why today when I uploaded my App Store icon did it apply a gloss effect automatically? Well,...
Aug 29th
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Cave Quisquiliae (Beware of Garbage!)
This week I was contracted by a local company to investigate why their windows service was getting slower and slower over time. They would start a long running process on the service which would start off processing 100 transactions a minute however after 15 minutes would only be processing 50 minute. In fact, after one hour it would be processing as little as 5 a minute. Why the slow down? I...
Aug 27th
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July 2011
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iPhone Simulator Case Sensitivity
A funny thing happened in an application I was developing today - the exact same code behaved differently between the iPhone Simulator and a real device. The application had a custom keyboard displayed on screen (for reasons I won’t get into) — on the iPhone Simulator all keys were displayed perfectly whereas on my iPhone no keyboard was displayed at all! Why? Well, it appears the...
Jul 27th
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June 2011
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Unit testing with GHUnit on the iPhone
After spending a long time pulling out my hair trying to get GHUnit working inside XCode 4 I finally made a breakthrough! - Thanks to this helpful answer on Stackoverflow. While the installation instructions are exactly the same as on the GHUnit site, the magic piece of information that I was missing was mentioned right down the bottom: Your test methods should start with test. Thanks for...
Jun 29th
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