Let’s get this straight: if we judge him solely by output (games), then he is not a genius – he’s lazy. Everyone knows the 1% inspiration/99% perspiration quote, and – looking at the last shipped title – IMHO it’s inexcusable to ship crap and pretend it’s OK. You can’t just […]
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I’m trying to download the 3.0 OS update for iPhone…and being denied by Apple’s own software – that cannot even download a single file from a website (!) It’s a 1GB download that you “must” download via iTunes, because … well … because … um … Apple hates web browsers? […]
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been looking at a lot of independent developers’ websites. It’s quite surprising how many of them go out of their way to make their site unusable – clearly thinking that they’re achieving the opposite. But also, today, Wikipedia started actively doing a very minor […]
I just discovered something rather annoying: people have been leaving voicemail on my cell phone. Please don’t. I can almost guarantee that I’ll never receive the message. Normally, this doesn’t happen: I have a recorded message explaining: don’t leave a message – I won’t receive it. No, really. Don’t leave […]
The title says it all really; for whatever reason, the Thunderbird developers appear not to have tested TB on OS X. So much of the basic functionality doesn’t work in the latest beta – this isn’t even alpha-quality code (on OS X). I’m sure it works fine on Windows (or […]
I had to do some iPhone prototyping recently, and we had a trial copy of Unity to hand. I thought this was a great excuse to try using it. First impressions of the editor/IDE/environment – at least on OS X – are not good. NB: In general, in terms of […]
We finally have a mainstream response (as opposed to responses sitting quietly in obscurity in the IGDA.org forums) to the issue of IGDA Board Members pissing all over IGDA’s main tenets: http://www.igda.org/newsroom/memo_032209.php (from the IGDA monthly newsletter that just went out to all 15,000+ members) Instances of the following words […]
(seriously – otherwise I’ll be phoneless thoughout GDC :( ) I’ve had no interest in cracking my iPhone, so I haven’t. Until I discovered the other day that my incompetent network (O2) won’t allow me to make calls in the USA on the agreement I have with them, so I […]
Today, I attempted to login to Feedburner. I had to go through not 1, not 2, but three different adverts for “here’s why we’re forcing you to create a new Google/Gmail account, you really want to do it, it will be good for you”. The third one has a link […]
Disappointing No spam filter (there is one, allegedly, but it’s invisible, non-configurable (!), and missing obvious spam words) (there are comments on the official forums from 3 years ago saying “we need some basic anti-spam tools” and the author replying with “we’re working on it”) Annoying No spam controls for […]
I can no longer develop iPhone Apps. I am on my eighth attempt to download the 1.75Gb 2.2.1 SDK – without which, XCode refuses to even talk to my iPhone any more, because I allowed the iPhone to upgrade. EDIT: I have it! I HAVE IT! YES! NO MORE PRAYING […]
Half way through the insane 1.75 gigabyte download of iPhone SDK 2.2.1 (which, lets be honest, has precisely 200 megabytes of content, and 1,500 megabytes of STUFF I ALREADY HAVE; Apple’s engineers apparently have never heard of the 30-year-old concept of a “patch file”), Apple refuses the download. I “no […]
Hi! My name is “Adam” (first name) “Martin” (surname); you might need to check the spelling. You might want to check which is the first name, which the surname – funny how many recruiters get it wrong! You’ve probably cold-emailed me because you got my email address somewhere – maybe […]
Just wanted to say: I detest “cron” more than mere words have the power to convey. I suspect there aren’t many other pieces of fundamental software implemented in so few lines of code that over so many years have caused so much harm and frustration to so many people and […]
I found Scott’s blog the other week, and liked it. So, I added it to my feed reader. Now, I’m removing it, because the way he’s got his RSS setup – http://www.hartsman.com/feed – is unreadable (literally – only the first 100 words or so of each post is included, the […]
I just tried to upgrade WordPress to 2.5, and the whole blog broke; when I got it half fixed, I couldn’t login as admin any more and instead got the following error – and here’s how to fix it:
Travelling to Helsinki with British Airways, 24 hours before the flight I received an email telling me that “Online Checkin is now available” and providing a link to check-in online. So, from my blackberry, I tried the link. It’s broken – it runs some buggy javascript that ends up redirecting […]
I upgraded Firefox only a few days ago (I didn’t get a choice – it was set to autoupdate, and updated when I was halfway through doing an install on my new computer; it broke most of the plugins I was halfway through installing because the new version wasn’t backwards […]
(do you have fuzzy text in Outlook 2007? hard to read fonts? System settings for fonts broken in Office 2007? Help is at hand…). You have to do a couple of things to fix the one bug, and I had to find all the different parts of the solution in […]
WordPress still has the worst UI for editing posts I’ve seen in years. It can’t even handle adding H3 tags! (you have to add them in source code, the visual editor doesn’t support them, and it’s got bugs if you try to then edit from the visual view afterwards)