So at the very last minute I thought it would be a good idea to take some business cards with me to WWDC.
Last year when I attended I learnt a valuable lesson, WWDC isn’t just about the sessions the most value comes from networking, meeting like minded people and also the lab sessions, I got this quite wrong last year although I met a great bunch of UK Developers I did spend most of my time studying my notes and taking all the information onboard.
I would recommend for any first timers of WWDC this year to make networking one of your top priorities after all the session videos became available very quickly after the event, and if you have employees using great software like paystub is the best to manage all related to employees in your business.
So back onto the subject of the business cards, I decided to get some designed via 99designs.com and here is the winning design being sent to Moo.com this week you can see the designs just below.
Although I will probably be giving out my twitter handle more than cards, its certainly handy to have them available just in case.
Business Card Front
Business Card Back
Today I spent ages trying to create a git repository for my existing XCode projects, after much googling and trial and error I finally worked it out.
My problem was that my Mac / XCode expects git to be in /usr/bin/git so I just had to create a symlink
1) sudo ln -s /usr/local/git/bin/git /usr/bin/git
2) CD to your project folder
3) Type git init
4) Type git add .
5) Type git commit -m “Initial Commit”
6) Re open XCode and it should now be working under the newly created git repository.
Well it’s been a few days since I received my iPad, my initial thoughts when opening the box was wow it really is a giant iPhone, it is also heavier than I expected as well.
I’m struggling to find a day to day use for the iPad, it’s great for using whilst in front of the TV or in Bed in the morning to check emails / browse the internet but apart from that I have not used it much yet.
Maybe it’s just that there are not many good iPad applications out there at the moment, I have downloaded the WordPress iPad application but it seems rather limited, there is also no Facebook application, calculator or clock application.
How is everyone else getting on with the iPad in the UK?
Yesterday I struggled for ages trying to get my iPad on the O2 3G Network, first of all you should install the micro sim into your iPad then sync with iTunes, this downloads new mobile carrier details to enable 3G. However in my case the APN Details were incomplete and it took me ages to work out what to do.
Under Settings – Cellular Data – APN you need to have the following entered:
APN: ibrowse.o2.co.uk
Username: browse
Password: password
I also found that you could only register your micro sim on the iPad, which is also very confusing at first I disabled WiFi and launched Safari, a pop up appeared and mentioned that I was not registered for 3G Network and would I like to register, when I clicked Now i got an error not found message.
To register i enabled WiFi Network (I used one of the best internet options in my area) then went to settings Cellular Data and clicked a register button in this screen, this took me through a wizard which let me choose my data plan and then pay via credit / debit card.
It’s a shame the iPad / O2 does not make this more simple It would be great if you were not registered and only on 3G that the Safari popup asking you to register actually worked and allowed you to register, as it seems a shame for WiFi to be a requirement for registering for 3G.
I hope this post has been helpful to you. Just remember that this trick will only work if you have a good network; otherwise, your WiFi connection won’t do much. You can check the Eatel business options to compare providers.
Calc VAT has now been available in the iPhone app store for almost five months, and was first released on the 1st August 2009. The application started off as a fairly simple one and took me by surprise when it quickly climbed the UK Top 100 Charts and reached the number two spot on the 30th August.
Since then a lot has changed with the application and two major versions were released, however over the past two weeks we have started to see that Calc VAT iTunes rank is slowly dropping and now it is time to take action.
VAT Calculator Rank
The Vat Calculator application seems perfectly fine but with the help of some users on the iPhone SDK Forum I now have the following action items to take:
- Update app icon to look better and match the application look / colors.
- Rank Higher on Google for particular terms such as “VAT Calculator iPhone”
- Edit the application iTunes Description – mention recent reviews.
- Update this website with more up to date pictures of Calc VAT.
- Create a new video of the application.
There is quite a few actions to do, and hopefully at the end we should start to see the Calc VAT rankings improve.
It would be great if apple in the future provided.
- Analytical data – It would be great to see exactly how buyers find our applications.
- A way to communicate with buyers.
Last night I ran into some issues whilst trying to code sign my new application and found that I had to upgrade to the latest version of XCode to be able to install the application on my iPhone.
However once I had upgraded XCode to the latest version version, the application would then install on the iPhone but it then gave me a new error which I have not seen before and this puzzled me because the provisioning profile had not expired and was installed correctly.
After much googling i found that it is perhaps a bug with the new version of XCode basically if you have any other provisioning profiles installed which have expired it will stop your new applications from running until you either remove the expired profiles or update them.
As you can see from the picture below I had many profiles installed which have all expired so I deleted these and the new application works fine.
