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An easier way to sign in to T-Mobile UK WiFi HotSpots

I can access T-Mobile UK WiFi HotSpots with my T-Mobile Mobile Broadband account (I have a 3G USB stick) but I find the signing in process rather painful. It goes something like this: I have to remember my phone number (I never call my USB Stick so I've never memorized it) and type in my [...]

The Flex 4 One-Step Migration Challenge

Dear Flex community and Flex engineering team, I have a challenge for you: let's make Flex 4 migration a one-step process. Yesterday, I documented the trouble I had in porting my Flex 3 app to Flex 4 and I blamed the move from the Fx prefix to namespaces for my woes. As some of you have [...]

TurkishCharactersAIR

I just whipped up an AIR app that should make it easier for people who don't have a Turkish keyboard but need to occasionally type in Turkish to use Turkish characters. Yes, it's a niche app The reason I made it? In 140 characters from earlier tonight: Emailed my mom in Turkish & apparently [...]

Images and UITableViewCells and Objective-C key paths

Here are two wonderfully useful articles by the folks at Probably Interactive on Images and UITableViewCells and Objective-C key paths. The first article describes a method of loading images into table view cells while keeping the UI responsive using threads (you can also do the same thing using NSOperation/NSOperationInvocation and NSOperationQueue but it was instructive for [...]

And Sys-Con libels me *again*

If you want to raise awareness of what Sys-Con are doing, please Digg this!, also Reddit. I'm in utter disbelief over Sys-Con's latest attack on me, following the defamatory article they published, then removed, earlier after I called them out on Ulitzer. They've now published an article titled "Turkish Web Designer Declares Death on Twitter" (http://twitter.ulitzer.com/node/896664 [...]