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Alfred Lyrics Search Workflow 4 Aug 2013 | 11:05 pm
Ever had the lyrics of a song stuck in your head but can’t for the life of you remember the artist or title? I get it all the time so wrote this Alfred workflow to search my iTunes library and start p...
Dynamic Regular Expressions 3 May 2013 | 10:47 pm
I faced an interesting challenge while developing Sprint.ly for Alfred recently; how to provide a preview of a story title as the user typed it. A story is a concept from Agile software development th...
Sprint.ly Workflow for Alfred 2 31 Jan 2013 | 05:53 pm
Since the first Alfred 2 beta was released, I’ve been building a workflow for Sprint.ly, the agile task management web app we use at Terracoding. The basic features are done so here it is for any othe...
Name & Shame 26 Jan 2013 | 03:04 pm
A couple of days ago my first iOS app went up on the App Store! Name & Shame is an iPhone app for logging and sharing the funny, dumb (or even profound!) things your friends say. “David Cameron… didn...
Using Ruby 1.9 with Alfred 23 Jan 2013 | 02:14 am
I’ve been building a Sprint.ly Workflow for Alfred 2 (currently in beta) and wanted to use it as an opportunity to brush up on my TDD and Ruby-foo. Alfred 2 let’s you run PHP, Python, Perl and Ruby s...
Quick Tip - Previewing Icon Designs 28 Nov 2012 | 03:00 am
When designing an icon in Photoshop (or your illustration app of choice), a neat way to preview it downscaled to its intended size is to reveal a sliver of you desktop behind the window and save your ...
Lessons in Self-Promotion 16 Nov 2012 | 03:19 pm
Last Saturday I travelled home to Birmingham to present at Multipack Presents Show and Tell, a meetup of midlands-based geeks organised by The Multipack. The theme for presentations was ‘retrospectiv...
Dynamic Height UITableView Cells in Xcode 24 Oct 2012 | 08:59 pm
I recently started building my first iOS app and quickly ran into problems trying to apply dynamic heights to UITableView cells depending on their content. This seems like the kind of common task that...
Wanted - User Agent Spoof Safari Extension 6 Sep 2012 | 02:52 am
Since uninstalling Flash on my Mac I’ve found it frustrating following links to video and audio websites that require it. YouTube, SoundCloud, TED and CollegeHumor (to name a few) all offer HTML5 play...
Introducing Lando 30 Aug 2012 | 04:59 pm
Managing the content of websites has always felt like a bit of a chore. Things like editing pages, posting blog entries and importing media should be simple but the Web-based admin interfaces of most ...
