A year so filled with ups and downs, tears and laughter too, 2016 you’ve tried and tested me, I’m glad you’re almost through. 2017, you’re nearly here, but yet, I claim you now, to be the year of goals and dreams, the fattened calf or cow. The year of reconciliation, be it race, religion, creed, … Read more
There are so many other words I wanted to put there, most of them unprintable. But right now I’m really pissed off with Apple. I’m an advocate for keeping things safe, I’m a fan of two factor authentication. But as far as I’m concerned Apple have it wrong, desperately wrong. Currently there is a lot … Read more
Happy New Year everyone, some people are still in 2014 while this is being composed, but hour by hour each part of the world will join the wonder that will be 2015. I was checking my email this morning and came across a note from the CEO of SmartSheet. They produce an amazing tool for … Read more
Over the years I have always enjoyed getting my hands on the latest gadgets, and my time as an Apple developer has been no different, as soon as a phone was announced I’d want to be among the first to get it. This year Apple announced that it would release to multiple countries on the … Read more
If you want to deploy an iOS application provisioned under an enterprise license on an IIS box the steps are simple enough: – Create a folder where the .ipa file will be stored such as \inetpub\wwwroot\myApp – Create a manifest (.plist) file, here is an example of what that should look like [code language=”xml”] <?xml … Read more
Is it ambiguous ? Well at the outset it seems to be. After a swag of updates (iOS 6, Xcode, OSX 10.8.2 ::modem has officially asked for time off now::) I opened an existing client project that was working previously. This project was used during a prototyping session with the client, so why does it … Read more
I was answering posts in a community forum on the weekend when I came across an entry asking for help to build a data grid. The requirement was complex. The poster had expressed at the time that the functionality needed was available in a 3rd party control, but did not want to spend the money … Read more
Ok, it was a simple enough feature to add. A viewer that would allow PDF’s to be shown on screen. Already in my toolkit I had the SyncFusion control, but after a couple of quick tests I found the speed to be woeful and thus started the painful process of looking for a control to … Read more
Welcome to Apple World: Submit – Fail, Submit – Fail, Submit – Fail It certainly was not the first iOS App I had tried to submit, yet here I am, seeing the same ambiguous error: iPhone/iPod Touch: icon.png: icon dimensions (0 x 0) don’t meet the size requirements. The icon file must be 57×57 pixels, … Read more
Ok, enough is enough. How do you fix a problem that cannot be defined? Let me backtrack a little. I new version of insQuote data converter was deployed today. The setup program ran flawlessly, the DLL’s were put in place and the pretty icon was placed on the desktop. The same procedure that has been … Read more