This is exactly how I felt going from creating utility and productivity apps at Mobiento to building digital toys for kids at Toca Boca. A great quote from mrgan found in Offline Mag no 5.
Version 2.0 comes with even more data-density; device memory, Geekbench scores and processor family. Feel free to copy, distribute and remix (licence).
Version 2.0 of the great matrix to use when planning iOS and/or device support.
A couple of months ago I bought a Nike+ Fuelband. It’s not available in Sweden just yet, so I bought it online - on the Nike Store. I got some questions on how I did that really, cause apparently it’s not supposed to be possible. It seems I “hacked” the Nike Store - but not really. Here’s four easy steps for you to order your own Fuelband:
1. Go to http://store.nike.com/ and scroll down to the bottom. Choose to change store, and select United Kingdom.
3. Head over to checkout, and login to your account. In checkout, locate the country, tap the question mark to change delivery country. Select Sweden and head back into checkout.
4. BOOM! There it is, a Fuelband ready to be shipped to Sweden.
The current price is 2000 SEK - but when I bought it this way I payed 1400 SEK, so this might change further down the road.
Almost to the day ten years after joining Softhouse I’m moving on to a new adventure: in August I’m starting as a Producer / Technical Project Manager at Mobiento.
It’s a bit emotional to leave Softhouse. In June 2001 I started my Master Thesis project at Softhouse in Malmö. 6 months later I joined the small team of about 25 consultants as a Softhouse employee. Now 10 years later, Softhouse has grown to more than 100 employees in 4 offices, where I was part of starting up the Stockholm office in 2007 as a partner. Leaving Softhouse, I will remember all the good times, the very first assignment in Malmö, the startup time in Stockholm (we didn’t even have an office), and all the excellent and funny people I’ve been working with, and so much more. It’s been great times, but as much as I’m looking back, I’m even more looking forward.
Joining Mobiento means working with world class mobile experiences. We’re truly in the middle of a mobile revolution, and to be able to work in the forefront of mobile solutions is really exciting. For me, delivering user experience has always been the primary focus, which I will now dive into even further at Mobiento. Leaving coding behind is a big step for me, and I’m looking forward to focusing only on project management using agile methodologies. I will probably still be coding on my spare time though.
Right now, there’s a series of radical changes in my life at the same time, and this is part one. Stay tuned for more!
This wednesday I gave a talk at Softhouse about how I solved the synchrozation in Dropshop. In short, I deployed a RESTful web service on Google App Engine using Jersey which implemented a protocol used by Evernote for a really simple way to synchronize shared data between any number of clients. This might be the subject for a more comprehensive post, but in the mean time you can look through my presentation below.
When I started the Shopping List project, a long long time ago, I had a vision of my product and summarized that vision in the post Features in a great Shopping List app.
One of the key features I listed was the ability to sort items into different categories, which gives nice visuals and…
I implemented a login/registration form in a UITableView, and needed a login button somewhere. Sure, I could have opted for rightButtonItem, but I wanted a big large button just below the form. So, I searched the interwebs and found a lot of sample codes. I followed this solution where I inserted a UIButton into a container UIView and returned that view in the delegate method
Nothing happens when I click the button. Nada. I couldn’t get my head around it; the selector was in place; the UIControlEvent was correct; the UIButton was added as a subview to the returned UIView; the UIView was indeed displayed as the section footer.
The solution
Turns out, I skipped ahead a bit, and forgot about step number 2 where you specify the height of the footer view using
Fråga barnet om de ser apan i linsen så ska ni få se hur de gör allt för att titta in i kameran och leta efter en apa. På så sätt fångar man många bra bilder har jag märkt.
I’m writing an iPhone application that synchs content to a server. Right now I’m in the final stages of testing the server, which is written in Java and running on Google App Engine.
However, In a certain workflow, my application returned a 500 error with the following entry in the logs:
Uncaught exception from servlet com.google.appengine.api.datastore.DatastoreNeedIndexException: no matching index found
[…] every query you run automatically gets indexed when necessary. If you thoroughly test your application before uploading it to your website, all of the indexes your application will need will be included in your application's datastore-indexes.xml […] You may manually add indexes if you find a query that was not covered by your development testing.
I have nearly a hundred unit test cases covering most of the logic in my application, and I double checked that it indeed was covering this case too. To be extra sure, I went on and wrote a new test case, simulating the exact case of the workflow generating the error. But still, the entry in the datastore-indexes.xml was missing.
Not until I ran the application locally for the live workflow, the needed entry was included in the XML file. After re-deploying the application to Google App Engine, the problem was solved.
So, if you don’t want to edit your index files manually, remember that the local unit test cases will not get your indexes automatically configured!
Last Monday I listened to a very interesting talk by Emil Ovemar (@eovemar) on kids play on touch screens. There’s a lot going on in this field, as you can tell by the slides below, and Brickmark is Bonnier’s investment in this field. It’s going to be interesting to see what their first creation will be.
Väldigt intressant om domen från tingsrätten i Hudiksvall där en 32-årig man länkade till en videosändning från Canal Plus, där man genom att gå in på länken kunde kringgå betalningssystemet och se strömmen gratis.
Citatet ovan är ganska talande. Om mannen i stället för att publicerat länken på sitt forum, där 20-30 personer anses ha sett länken, skrev av den på en papperslapp och visade papperslappen för sina vänner - är det också att betrakta som en brottslig handling?
Tingsrätten är helt ute och cyklar här, och detta är bara ännu ett bevis för hur upphovsrättsinnehavarna krampaktigt klamrar fast vid sina gamla affärsmodeller och fumlar och tvekar när de ger sig in i nya moderna affärer.
I’m writing an iPhone application that synchs content to a server. Right now I’m in the final stages of testing the server, which is written in Java and running on Google App Engine.