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Android a challenge to OEMs?
Does the “Android Monopoly” really provide a challenge to the traditional OEMs? Is the answer to use virtualisation on the handset and put Android in a virtual machine sandbox while the OEM’s own O/S...
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ExpenseClam – finding the currency
Stair case Yesterday I released ExpeneseClam, a business expenses tracking app for Android. Recording expenses on a smartphone can be a painful experience, typos are common, expense claims are not...
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Android Market Experience
The Android Market continues to struggle in providing a great end user experience. To illustrate, here’s what I went through when purchasing Carcassonne tonight: Dolomites looking desolate I had...
View ArticleTablet versus NetBook
I’m struggling to decide on whether a NetBook or a tablet would be better suited for me. The tablet would be an Android one, probably the new transformer prime from Asus. It would allow me to test...
View ArticleApp rankings in the Android market
For an app that only recently moved into the 100-500 downloads range, the paid version of ExpenseClam is doing remarkably well. As of writing this, ExpenseClam is number 65 on the list of top grossing...
View ArticleBlackberry Playbook
I’ve recently acquired a blackberry playbook by porting ExpenseClam to this platform. The physical format of a 7 inch tablet seems to work very well. It is still small enough that carrying the device...
View ArticleSwiftKey and trailing spaces
During testing of the latest version of ExpenseClam (released just last week), I stumbled across a small issue that I’ve not seen before. Until recently I was using a back port of the Jelly Bean...
View ArticleKilling Passwords
Passwords on websites and in apps are the bane of internet usage. Much has been written (recently in TechCrunch – Kill The Password) on how painful they are to generate and remember. Password...
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HTTP Push Notfications
Arran Beach Owlauth allows users to register a device (e.g. a phone) and then use this device to confirm their identify when logging into a website or application. For this to work the Owlauth app...
View ArticleClosures
I’ve found an increasing number of uses for closures in Go, to the point where they are one of my favourite features of the language. Closures are created when an anonymous function is declared and it...
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