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Posts from December 2008

Darkslide 1.5 Post-Mortem

I always think it’s weird to call these posts post-mortems, since things which receive such treatments are dead. Darkslide certainly isn’t dead.
Firstly, let me address the name change: another company with a product called “Exposure” was upset that Connected Flow had a product called “Exposure”, even if it was on a different platform. With [...]


Recent Media Appearances: Mac Developer Roundtable

The latest Mac Developer Roundable, on the iPhone SDK, features John Fox, Bill Dudney, Jiva Devoe and myself.

Mac Developer Roundtable, Episode 14: The iPhone SDK


Scotland The Best

If you follow me on Twitter, you might think that I hate everything about Scotland. Not true.


Hidden Internet: Delicious Network

One of the most consistently interesting feeds in my RSS reader is my Delicious Network. What’s my Delicious Network? It’s an aggregation of the Delicious bookmarks of people I choose to make part of my network on that site.
The URL is http://delicious.com/network/fraserspeirs. Yours will end in your username.
When you’re on another user’s page the [...]


My Life, as seen through the Ghostbusters franchise

Maybe it’s something about being 30 years old this year, but I’m starting to occasionally catch onto and appreciate the changes in technology over my lifetime. Mostly, though, I take it for granted.
Just occasionally, however, the scale of our collective technological progress takes me out back and knocks seven bells out of me with a [...]


There is More Than One Mobile Context

My friend and co-conspirator Craig Hockenberry has a great essay on his blog about the choices he and the Iconfactory team made in the development of Twitterrific for the iPhone.
I thought I would follow up with some thoughts of my own about Exposure, because my thinking is quite different from Craig’s and developing a client [...]