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Review: Charles Proxy – Useful development tool; ugly interface
During the testing of one of my projects, our QA folks mentioned a tool called Charles Proxy that they used to throttle the connection speed down to 3G speed as some issues can only be reproduced on slow connections. I … Continue reading
Review: PixelSkin HD Case for iPhone 4
Today I received the PixelSkin HD case for my iPhone 4 through the Apple case program. I had been using a $0.99 case I purchased off eBay and was relatively happen with it. It’s really hard to review a case … Continue reading
The art of billing
It seems like such a simple task for a contractor; bill for the hours you worked. In my profession and how my brain operates, defining “work” is not easy. My brain doesn’t have an on/off switch so at the end … Continue reading
Review: On The Job – Time Tracking for the Mac
Before I became self-employed again. I looked for a time tracking application. I tried one on the iPad which was a complete waste of money. So, I decided to go back to time tracking on my Mac. At least I … Continue reading
Three months of self employment
It’s now been 3 months since I left my job and became self employed. As I wrote after my first month of being self employed, things are still going quite well. I really like my projects and even though I … Continue reading
Review: Syma S107 RC Helicopter
As a child, I had RC (radio controlled) cars a few times and enjoyed playing with them. However, they ate batteries like no tomorrow and since they weren’t rechargeable, play time was quite short. Years later, the battery technology has … Continue reading
Developing iPhone applications with teams
In my last post, I identified a number of areas that make developing iPhone applications with teams problematic and sometimes difficult. In this post, I’m going to present some of my ideas on how to make it easier. Use source … Continue reading
iPhone Development and teams
Since I’ve been self employed again, I’ve been working on 3 iPhone development projects. On 2 of the projects, I’m the lone developer (at the moment), with a QA resource and a project manager. On the 3rd project, at its … Continue reading
Abstract Photo
My son loves playing with our camera and takes lots of pictures. Most of the pictures are blurry and we delete them. However, sometimes he takes a picture that looks pretty good. He was playing in my office a few … Continue reading
Open source is not always the answer
I’ve been a huge fan of open source software for years and have contributed back to a few projects including the Palm OS Emulator and pilot-link. I’ve used a number of open source projects in my own applications and, of … Continue reading