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Google Docs Is My Permanent Shopping List
My last ‘real’ post was about how I was trying to [intlink id="307" type="post"]reduce the amount of food I was throwing away[/intlink]. This seems to be going well, I have definitely not thrown out as...
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Against the Android Action-Bar
I’ve noticed some interesting UI design patterns emerging in the Android app ecosystem of late1. It’s great to see apps evolving to make the best of the mobile platform, but there’s one that irks me....
View ArticleAdventures in Mac-Land: My New MBP
For my new job I was given a brand new Macbook Pro. This caused both joy and trepidation. I’m always excited by new tech toys, but the last time I used a Mac was in secondary school when the iMac...
View ArticleHow To Write an Android App That I’ll Use
Last week, Mark Jaquith posted an article entitled ‘How to write a WordPress plugin that I’ll use‘. It occurred to me that a similar document about Android apps would be a useful and fun thing to...
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The Flying Developer Gets Some Dodgy Solicitation
The other day I got a letter from the ‘Domain Registry of Canada’, telling me that one of my domains was expiring soon, along with a handy renewal form for me to fill out. There are several problems...
View ArticleProductive or Responsive: Pick One
When people ask me what I do at my job, I often have a hard time explaining. ‘Developer Advocate’ isn’t exactly specific in the same way that ‘Software Engineer’, ‘Visual Designer’ or ‘Phone Support’...
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Why I Don’t Obfuscate My Email
One of the longstanding ‘tricks’ that I see around the web is people obfuscating their email addresses. A quick search reveals that A List Apart talked about it in 2002 and again in 2007, so it’s been...
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The Flying Developer Dislikes Pando Media Booster
I’ve been playing League of Legends over the last month or so, and I rather like it. But that’s not what this post is about. A couple of days after I installed the game, I noticed something strange....
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What is an App?
About a week before I published my last blogpost on Who Goes First the first version of the app was posted on Reddit by a friend of mine. His title was ‘App made by a colleague of mine‘. I was...
View ArticleRegular Expressions That Aren’t
Today there appeared an article on Reddit titled ‘The true power of regular expressions‘. The author goes into quite a lot of detail explaining that ‘modern’ regular expression engines are much more...
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