I’ve been somewhat busy latey so this isn’t the typical technical blog post, but rather a pointer that my regular readers can find me posting semi-frequently on here but also in other places. That’s right, I’ve joined the ranks of the unpaid professional blogger and so you can find me writing with my friends over [...]

Maybe it’s because I’m what would be regarded as a ‘power user’ – but I find calendars on my phone and online with Google very, very useful. What is a seemingly simple tool is enabled and ready to make magical things happen. A discussion that I raised with one of my BBM groups today was [...]

Having fun playing with the new BlackBerry Dev Alpha? There’s a lot hidden away on the new software including an onscreen output for watching the performance of the handset. To access the diagnostics, simply place your finger at the top left of the bezel and swipe inwards. Make sure that you are using the homescreen [...]

Something that happens occasionally is that I need to create a function that will specifically output chunks of HTML. A good method is to allow for functions to handle both single strings and arrays. The problem? I don’t like duplicating code. The solution? A quick convention to an array! function arrayish($a) { if (!is_array($a)) $a [...]

Right, let’s cut to the chase. RIM – you’re current backup system for the PlayBook is inadequate. There, I got it off my chest. But it had to be said. As you can probably see from this blog – I like BlackBerry. It does what I want it to do most of the time. I [...]

After a long brain-think, I’ve decided to use Disqus for my comments from now on. There just seems to be no benefit to managing a comments system when there is so much that people expect out of it now. Please bear with me as my existing comments are synced to “The Cloud” (or as we [...]