Today we are taking off for Webstock again. As you saw in our previous blog article, this time we’ve made it into the BNZ Startup Alley. The last few weeks we’ve been firing on all cylinders to get ready and we thought we’d have a bit of fun by creating something to showcase the platform nature [...]
...Read the full articleLast year Jessica and I went to Webstock, New Zealand’s annual web technology conference in Wellington. We spent two days soaking up a wealth of ideas the speakers had to offer. Webstock is an inspired event and it gets the Kiwi technology community engaged and excited. One of my favourite memories was when Tash spoke in closing [...]
...Read the full articleWhen the iPhone 4s was first released I was rather indifferent to what it offered over my trusty old iPhone 4, however, once they started to ship and people started talking about Siri it got me thinking how we could leverage this technology. One way that I identified was to leverage the built in reminders application [...]
...Read the full articleIt seems there is a new ‘to-do list’ application on the market almost every day. Many come and go quietly, hardly a blip on the competitive landscape, falling short with their usability and design. Others come from developers trying to scratch an itch; talented people who lack the time or desire to be there for [...]
...Read the full articleHere we are just a few days before Christmas, and amidst the frantic shopping, parties and rushing to get work finished, we find ourselves thinking about the New Year ahead. There is something so enticing about the ‘fresh start’; the next step, the chance to make change in our lives. It is this feeling of [...]
...Read the full articleSomewhere along the line something went wrong. Before we started living our lives through computers, didn’t we used to show more respect? Raised voices and shouting were reserved for situations of real urgency; times when you had no choice but to verbally shake the person you were talking to. But now it seems to happen [...]
...Read the full articleThere’s something very respectful about the practice of letter writing – the way you give all of your attention and energy to communicate with someone who isn’t there to respond. And there’s something charming about the way, in days gone by, people would hand-write a complete account of their life at any given time – [...]
...Read the full articleI’ve had several unsuccessful attempts at writing this article before now. It’s not that I don’t know what I want to talk about. It’s not even that I don’t want to do it; I enjoy writing for our blog. Sometimes urgent unexpected things come up, but often it’s non urgent distractions. For example I’ll be looking [...]
...Read the full articleLast week I needed to implement some image resizing and optimising functionality to Luumin, something for handling images like avatars and previewing content. Having used ImageMagick for the last several years by calling the executable directly, it seemed like an opportune time to see what other libraries were available and what ones were able to [...]
...Read the full articleSometimes a walk around the block isn’t sufficient and we feel the need to go a long way down the road – as in 3 or 4 hours drive away! This weekend we did just that and ended up here, at the beautiful Lake Tarawera in the Central North Island: Hunkered down in a traditional kiwi bach, [...]
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