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12 Aug 2011
If you've been following my tweets, you'll know that a few weeks ago PayPal froze my account without notice. This is the business account for my company that accepts payments for Update 2011, the independent mobile conference I'm organizing in Brighton this September as part of the Brighton Digital Festival.
PayPal freezing accounts is nothing new. They do it all the time. And they've done it to other conferences also, including dConstruct, and more recently to Remy's Full Frontal.
Come by next Thursday and have a drink or two on me as we chill and talk about how you can help make Update 2011 even more awesome. We need volunteers, people to help get the word out, and… well, I'm sure you have ideas I haven't even thought of yet.
Well it took me three years to recover from organizing the world's first fully-virtual web conference, <head> with over 70 amazing speakers, in-world conference hubs in the UK, US, Switzerland, Belgium, and Second Life, and several thousand attendees. And by recover, I mean to forget what a huge undertaking it is to organize a conference.
But the time is perfect for a mobile conference in Brighton, and so I give you the Update conference: the human touch – iOS and beyond.
I'm up to my neck in work trying to get the site for Update Conference up and running but I saw a tweet in my stream from Mark Ford that I couldn't ignore.
Mark had written a blog post about how his wife finds it difficult to use some iOS apps because they do not implement a means to increase text size: (more...)
How to add pinch-to-zoom to a text view on iOS
An easy way to let users scale the text size in your iOS app using pinch-to-zoom.
Friday night was Geek Ninja Battle Night, an evening of talks, drinks, and fun organized by Geek Ninja Factory.
Geek Ninja Battle Night
An evening of talks, drinks, and fun, with Sarah Parmenter, Andy Clarke, Remy Sharp, myself, and a little over sixty lovely audience-members.