This is my personal blog. I hope to be as candid as possible here.
Writing a personal blog alongside my business is a good exercise. It'll help me analyse my progress, and hopefully provide you readers with insights into freelancing, development, and business. If you have any feedback, let me know in the comments, or shoot me an email.
It’s been about six months since I got my iPhone, so I figure it’s time to revise the must-have app list. I’m not going to list all the apps I have installed, just the ones I’d recommend to a new iPhone owner (Luke, I’m looking at you. Congrats!)
The list is as follows (prices are as of 13th March, 2009):
Currency (free)
DomainScout (free)
eBay Mobile (free) (official app this time!)
FTP On The Go ($12.99 AUD, stricken from the list… poor value for money)
Google Earth (free)
Google Mobile App (free)
iSSH ($5.99 AUD)
Koi Pond ($1.19 AUD) (ok, this one’s not really a must-have… but it’s relaxing)
Live Poker (free)
Midomi (free)
Ocarina ($1.19 AUD) (by Smule, they do really nicely made apps)
OzWeather ($2.49 AUD) (better for us Aussies than the Yahoo one, comes from BoM)
reMovem ($4.99 AUD) (I mainly bought this one for my wife…)
SnapTell (free) (like Midomi, but for books and DVD covers, etc.)
Tweetie ($3.99 AUD) (yes, Twitter is all the rage right now, so get this and follow @japh.)
You may (or maybe not, I guess) have heard of “The Best Job In The World” website? Well they’re down to finalists now! 50 finalists, the top 11 of which will be sent to Australia to continue the selection process.
As a follower of GeekBrief, I’d like to support Cali Lewis coming on over to Australia and briefing from our beautiful coast for a while! So if you could please send her a vote (at least one, but one each day would be nice!), that would be much appreciated.
I wrote my first tutorial for NETTUTS recently and it was published last night.
Title: Create a Slick Flickr Gallery with SimplePie Description: I’ve wanted to write a tutorial for quite some time now, and APIs have always been a particular interest of mine. So with my wife’s recent foray into photography, I decided a Flickr tutorial would be first cab off the rank! Using RSS, Flickr and jQuery all together was pretty fun too.
Recently I received a warning from my host that I was WAY over my memory limit. I had some long running processes going, and a few cron scripts that altogether were using about 220mb out of my 120mb of allowed memory usage… oops!
Anyway, there’s currently no way from my control panel to see how memory I’m currently using, I have to run a command from a terminal, and certainly no way to tell usage over time. So, after looking at a thread my hosting provider pointed me to, I decided to have a play with the Google Charts API! Read the rest of this entry »
Packing up a house isn't easy. My wife is doing a brilliant job! (Especially with me "helping"... that can't be easy!)07:22:41 AM March 06, 2010from Tweetie
