So last year I upgraded from my old EVGA GTX580 Classified to a Palit GTX980ti JetStream. I expected a massive increase in performance in Blender, both in the preview rendering. read more…
This might at first appear like a form of scare mongering, or a thinly veiled sales pitch on my part but I can assure you it isn’t. I have too. read more…
I love ReSharper, I really do feel slightly lost when using Visual Studio and hitting Alt+Enter doesn’t offer the same code sugar rush I’ve come to expect. But I’ve gotta. read more…
The App Store has to be one of the flakiest “services” I’ve ever had the displeasure of having forced on me. App submissions seem to fail constantly, more often than. read more…
Ebay used to be great. Today, however, was the last nail in the coffin for me. Either as a seller, or a buyer. When perusing the site these days I. read more…
Hmm … where to start? I had to buy a MacBook, I need to write and compile apps for iPhones and iPads. I would have preferred to spend the extortionate. read more…
Sharing parameters and properties can be a bit confusing for new users of TeamCity. Lets use a simple example to illustrate how you can do this. For sake of this. read more…
So this turned into a complete nightmare for a while. TeamCity Mac Agent Push Installation I started by trying to get TeamCity to do a push install of a new. read more…
Over the years I’ve used many source control systems. Most of them seemed pretty simple to use after a short period of time. However they all have their idiosyncrasies that. read more…
So I finally did it. When I first purchased my MacBook Pro I bought a copy of Parallels 8. What a mistake that turned out to be. Don’t get me. read more…
A while ago Martijn van Dijk and I had a very brief chat about creating an MvvmCross iOS Support library for use with MvvmCross. Just to add in some general. read more…
So, I this has happened to me a couple of times now and frankly it’s a sham, it really is. I honestly do not know the inner workings of how. read more…
There’s no doubt about it, things that help are good. This topic of abstraction came up in a chatroom the other day and I found myself advocating not abstracting in. read more…
Change tracking object contents at first might seem like an easy or straightforward task but there are lots of pitfalls and potential issues with many solutions. What works in your. read more…
I have a fairly complex development environment for my current project and needed to allow some self-signed certificates to pass through the SSL certificate chaining process when calling from mobile. read more…
I’ve just had to handle the situation where a user taps on a text editor control in an iOS view and the keyboard auto appears. Whilst this is obviously great. read more…
Hmm … not an awful lot to report … hardly anything “new” to play with / enjoy. But it did wreck my http.sys config which lost me a day. Thanks. read more…
Finally my favorite browser makes it to the hallowed walled garden that is Apple iOS. I’ve been waiting for this to happen for a long time and it’s finally occurred. read more…
Blender GTX980ti
So last year I upgraded from my old EVGA GTX580 Classified to a Palit GTX980ti JetStream. I expected a massive increase in performance in Blender, both in the preview rendering. read more…
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The Dangers of Self Build Web Site Platforms
This might at first appear like a form of scare mongering, or a thinly veiled sales pitch on my part but I can assure you it isn’t. I have too. read more…
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A New Little Blender Render
Yup, had a little play around with an abstract blender idea the other day. Just completed the render.
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ReSharper 10 Speed Woes
I love ReSharper, I really do feel slightly lost when using Visual Studio and hitting Alt+Enter doesn’t offer the same code sugar rush I’ve come to expect. But I’ve gotta. read more…
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App Store App Submission – Continual Failure and Obfuscation
The App Store has to be one of the flakiest “services” I’ve ever had the displeasure of having forced on me. App submissions seem to fail constantly, more often than. read more…
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.NET Brain Fart
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The Decline of Ebay
Ebay used to be great. Today, however, was the last nail in the coffin for me. Either as a seller, or a buyer. When perusing the site these days I. read more…
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My Life With a MacBook Pro – 3 Years In
Hmm … where to start? I had to buy a MacBook, I need to write and compile apps for iPhones and iPads. I would have preferred to spend the extortionate. read more…
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TeamCity – Sharing Build Properties
Sharing parameters and properties can be a bit confusing for new users of TeamCity. Lets use a simple example to illustrate how you can do this. For sake of this. read more…
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Xamarin iOS TeamCity Build
So this turned into a complete nightmare for a while. TeamCity Mac Agent Push Installation I started by trying to get TeamCity to do a push install of a new. read more…
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Source Control – Learning Git
Over the years I’ve used many source control systems. Most of them seemed pretty simple to use after a short period of time. However they all have their idiosyncrasies that. read more…
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Bye, Bye Parallels – Hello Virtual Box
So I finally did it. When I first purchased my MacBook Pro I bought a copy of Parallels 8. What a mistake that turned out to be. Don’t get me. read more…
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MvvmCross iOS Support and Samples
A while ago Martijn van Dijk and I had a very brief chat about creating an MvvmCross iOS Support library for use with MvvmCross. Just to add in some general. read more…
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SSD Windows 10 and The Dreaded INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE
So, I this has happened to me a couple of times now and frankly it’s a sham, it really is. I honestly do not know the inner workings of how. read more…
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Abstracting APIs – Abstract Potentially Insane?
There’s no doubt about it, things that help are good. This topic of abstraction came up in a chatroom the other day and I found myself advocating not abstracting in. read more…
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View Model Value Change Tracking in MvvmCross & Xamarin
Change tracking object contents at first might seem like an easy or straightforward task but there are lots of pitfalls and potential issues with many solutions. What works in your. read more…
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Whitelist SSL Certificates in .NET for Xamarin / MvvmCross Apps
I have a fairly complex development environment for my current project and needed to allow some self-signed certificates to pass through the SSL certificate chaining process when calling from mobile. read more…
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iOS Keyboard Handling in MvvmCross View Controller
I’ve just had to handle the situation where a user taps on a text editor control in an iOS view and the keyboard auto appears. Whilst this is obviously great. read more…
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Windows 10 Threshold 2 Update
Hmm … not an awful lot to report … hardly anything “new” to play with / enjoy. But it did wreck my http.sys config which lost me a day. Thanks. read more…
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FireFox Finally Arrives On iOS
Finally my favorite browser makes it to the hallowed walled garden that is Apple iOS. I’ve been waiting for this to happen for a long time and it’s finally occurred. read more…
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