a.k.a devgeeks

a.k.a devgeeks

Software development in the minutes a day I have spare

May 19 2012 7:42 am

Been a while, but there is a reason

Finally submitted

It’s been almost two months since my last post, but that’s because I have been working hard on a new app. In fact, an entire new product.

I’ll be able to post more soon including some of the custom plugins I wrote for the app.

It’s a camera-based app at heart so I needed a custom camera overlay view as well as some changes to make the camera more responsive (there was a horrible delay after clicking the “use” button in the core PhoneGap Camera API).

I am hoping to find a way to make the camera functionality open source and abstract enough that it would be useful to someone else.

Until then, stay tuned? ;)

Feb 8 2012 2:13 pm

The move to Tumblr

I have decided to move the blog to tumblr for a few of reasons.

  1. I was sick of managing the comment spam on the previous WordPress blog
  2. I was sick of managing the software/security updates on the previous WordPress blog
  3. I wanted an easy way to post to the blog when I was out and about on an iOS device using Markdown 
  4. I wanted to see how well Tumblr works for a blog with it’s own domain, etc
  5. I wanted to learn how to theme Tumblr 

So far it seems to be going OK. Some things are certainly easier (less maintenance, easier posting) but some things are more tedious (static “landing pages” for the apps, etc).

I will be updating the theme a bit at a time. Cleaning up the posts so the images are no longer coming from the previous WordPress blog, extending the theme to include comments/discussion/likes/etc and adding more social media integration (apart from just Twitter).

Feel free to shoot me an email if you think this is a good/stupid/pointless idea. ;)

Dec 15 2010 2:43 am

Failure to update…

So what we have here is a failure to communicate update…

Between moving house in September, the birth of my beautiful daughter Ivy in October and entering a new start-up phase at my “day job”… I just haven’t been keeping up with this blog.

I mean seriously.. the last post was about the Brisbanesounds app not having been approved yet. That app has long since been approved and is going quite well.

I can’t promise to do much better in the future, but perhaps I can at least update when an app has made it through the approval process next time :)

Mar 5 2010 1:45 pm

What’s next?

I am in a post release slump…

I can’t work on the 4ZzZfm app anymore until either some bugs are found or the new website goes live and I can start adding features for the next version/update.

So now I am wondering what my next devgeeks iPhone project will be?

Since releasing the 4ZzZ app, I have been contacted by a few people who seem interested in getting an iPhone app made. I have replied to them all asking what they are looking for so I can determine if I want to do it – or if I can do it, for that matter… I am still very new to this.

No one has gotten back to me yet so I feel a tad in limbo.

I know what I should probably be doing is going back to the books and iTunesU videos, etc and learning more about iPhone development so that when the next project DOES come along I will be ready… but it was just so much more fun making something real rather than just doing tutorials, etc.

*sigh*

Maybe someone will get back to me tomorrow ;)

Feb 20 2010 3:50 pm

Welcome

I have decided with the reactivation of the Devgeeks name through my interest in iPhone application development that the devgeeks.* domains needed a facelift and some actual content.

So here it is. The new devgeeks.org site.

I hope I manage to keep it updated better than my other sites