The day of reckoning is nigh

It's happened. I am finally free of all things Microsoft. Secretly since Windows Vista I have been disappointed with the operating systems coming out of Redmond. At work I have been using Ubuntu and things are fine but not entirely happy with the interface and in a quest for something different I have purchased a Macbook Pro.

I won't bore you with the details suffice to say, It's a whopper fully loaded and the O/S is 64bit.

I have set up more or less everything I need to develop on this machine and working on it is a joy.

Today I configured Coldfusion9 to connect to a free tiny sql database named Sqlite3. Now I can ditch my Virtualbox virtual machine running Window7.

After seeing how little progress has been made with Windows7 I'm glad I made the jump. It still feels like windows 95 and until Microsoft get brave and roll out an O/S that doesn't have to be backwardly compatible (or for that matter using compatibility modes) then I am embracing the Mac and all the culture that goes with it.

I'll keep you posted on the good things I find

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The Winner Takes It All

I attended Scotch On The Road last week. A Coldfusion conference held throughout Europe and managed like a rock tour. It was a good day and I reacquainted myself with ex-colleagues from 3 different companies I have worked for. So it was nice to catch up with all. The session over the day were pretty specialist but a lot devoted to CF9, Adobe's new CFML server. Glad to say it's pretty good and a reasonable advance from CF8. I also won the raffle and have just finished choosing my $2000 worth of software, which will fit nicely onto the Macbook Pro.

I'm out of prison!

Actually I haven't been to prison I have been very busy working every hour I can in iOS development. I am now a iOS contractor with over 2 years experience under my belt and enjoying every minute of it. I have decided to return to this blog and start sharing again the things I come across on my day to day travels.

Version Diversions

As a contractor I have to be light on my toes when it comes to using my own equipment and maintaining the ability to develop to the correct target version. Apple have recently made this a bit harder for the likes of me with the introduction of Xcode 4.5 (now at 4.5.2) The issue is - from Xcode 4.5, Apple dropped support for older devices that have the Arm processers Arm6. No big deal you may think. But a lot of my clients have clients that denote the minimum target iOS version to build for. This can cause problems and to compound things some directives specify iOS versions that are a) No longer supported by Apple, b) Have no device (both simulator nor handset) to test on. They are now starting to ask about updating their apps for the iPhone 5 resolution. It's hard to tell them that because of their target iOS, this can only be achieved by developing blindly relying on provisioning for device testing and the associated increase in development (known as cost) or increasing the ...

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