Using Android Jetpack Navigation with Navigation Drawers

To me, the best thing to come out of Google IO (for Android devs) is definitely Jetpack A bunch of well thought out components and patterns to help Android dev can’t be a bad thing, AMIRITE? Anywho, I find the best way to learn something new is to try it by creating a working app. […]

Unity 2017.x

Way back in the deep dark days of my teenage years, there was this little operating system called MS-DOS 5.0. You may recall it. It’s the one that allowed expanded memory. Man. I could hack a config.sys with the best of them. Anywho. Along with sweet, sweet expanded (and extended) memory there were CPU rendered […]

8 Years for me too, and a bit of introspection

Reading this: http://gavinbowman.tumblr.com/post/153913496028/8-years , got me thinking, and it’s been (almost) 8 years since I introduced my first iPhone app too. That app was Hundred Pushups, that I did in conjunction with the excellent Steve Speirs. I had zero expectations of the app really. I am a bit of a historian of the computer industry, […]

My 10 word review of Xamarin Forms

It’s great. You should try it. Especially for xPlat apps.

CocoaPods won’t install under OSX 10.11 (El Capitan) ?

If you’re having issues getting Cocoapods to install in El Cap try this answer here: How to get Pods to work in 10.11

My 10 word iPhone 6s review

Pretty mint, but don’t bother if you have a 6

Up git Street without a paddle

I recently updated OSX to El Capitain (10.11). Over all I think it’s a great update. Nothing stellar, but stabilises a lot of stuff from Mav. It did stuff up my merge tool of choice in git though. I prefer diffmerge to the standard on OSX which is filemerge. The fix took me a while […]