FlickrExport 3 contains a software update module which can anonymously report some configuration details to my server when it checks for updates. I recently did a first analysis of the numbers and here are some basic results.
Firstly, let me state the limitations of this work. I took all the software update hits from my server [...]
Just finished a long and excellent day at NSConference. I would be tempted to say that all the speakers today were brilliant, but that would be immodest since I was one of them. All the other speakers were brilliant.
Matt Legend Gemmell kicked off the conference with a very measured, calm and reassuring walk [...]
For the solo developer, it’s easy to kid yourself into believing that you’ll run those tests “when appropriate”. It never really happens, does it?
I’ve always liked the Clang Static Analyzer as a tool for finding code oversights, but I’ve always found it a bit annoying to run. I always forgot the options, or something didn’t [...]
Tomorrow, Apple will be showing a sneak peek at iPhone OS 3.0. I have a few hopes, both as a developer and as a user.
As a Developer, I really want to see:
UIMapView - the internals of the Maps application made available to all developers. There are significant licensing issues around this - Google [...]
I was invited to the Rangers vs. AC Milan friendly match last night, and took along my Zi6.
(Warning: the audio starts quietly and then suddenly gets loud.)
Rangers vs. AC Milan from Fraser Speirs on Vimeo.
I processed the video in iMovie ‘09. A couple of points:
The action scenes are cropped in iMovie, since we were [...]
Rev Dan Catt writes, on the Flickr code blog:
Over the weekend we broke the Hundred Million geotagged photos, actually 100,868,302 at last count, mark. If we remember that we passed the 3 billion photos recently and round the figure down a little that means (does calculations on fingers) that around 3.333% of photos have geo [...]
The Drobo situation has been resolved. I had another call with Tom Loverro yesterday and we discussed the problem I mentioned yesterday:
I do have one suspicion, though: I’ve noticed that when your machine goes to sleep for an extended period, the Drobo also goes to sleep. When the computer wakes up, it does so [...]
I know Evernote has a lot of fans, but I was trying to move some PDFs out of it today and made an unpleasant discovery. I write to either inform you before you commit too many PDFs to it or in the hope that someone has a workaround.
PDFs are not first-class citizens in Evernote. [...]
[Update: read the resolution to this story.]
This is an update to a previous post. Before you read this, make sure you’ve read Part One of this story.
After I posted my last, I moved the Drobo over to my Mac mini, so that I could leave it churning as long as it wanted. In the [...]
As you may know, Apple added Flickr uploading to iPhoto ‘09. As you may guess, I was a little perturbed at this since I pay my mortgage by selling, er, a Flickr upload plugin for iPhoto.
I acquired my copy of iLife ‘09 yesterday and decided to dive deep on how Apple have implemented Flickr integration [...]
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