Name: Phil Haigh
Date registered: August 8, 2011
URL: http://www.surfsoftconsulting.com
Oct 13
Over the last few months we’ve been playing with a new application concept and are able to announce that we will soon be launching a new Android application and cloud service which we are developing under the working title of “Message Manager”.
Oct 13
In August and September we had some issues with the newer multicore phones running Android 4.0 and up, responding with a series of five point releases (3.4.1 through 3.4.5) which brings us to the point where Audio Clock is now behaving itself again on all platforms.
Jul 17
Yesterday I was at the monthly meeting of the Groovy and Grails User Group at Skills Matter to hear about the recent release of Groovy 2 and a standard event bus for Grails applications. The evening was split into two sessions – the first on Groovy 2 and the second on a new Grails event bus.
May 20
About ten days ago I finally received the OTA update for my Galaxy Nexus that would take it from 4.0.2 to 4.0.4. Of course it didn’t show up at a convenient time despite my numerous checkin requests over the previous two weeks, I was on the motorway, using Google’s Navigation app. Ten minutes later however …
Mar 27
Last year’s Google I/O conference sold out in under 60 minutes. This year, with many more tickets available, it sold out in just 28 minutes (according to my browser) or 20 (if you read Vic Gundotra’s Google+ post here). Google could have sold every ticket at least three times over last year. Or, if you just …
Mar 24
Samsung is a company that has successfully renewed itself in recent years. If I want a good quality and feature packed TV I look at Samsung, not Sony. And If I want a good looking, up-to-date Android device then they have some fantastic hardware that performs well and looks good. At Google I/O I got …
Feb 04
Android has been taking a back seat recently (although that is about to change) as the new Formula One season looms and I’ve been comprehensively overhauling the fantasy game web site I’ve been running for over ten years, fantasy-f1.net. Last year I spent three months removing the Struts MVC layer, restructuring the underlying code and then …
Dec 14
At this year’s Devoxx, Google’s Tim Bray gave a thought-provoking keynote which covered several areas but what stood out for me were his comments around writing applications for Android. In summary his message was “give software away and sell a service” and “make it social”. Giving software away and selling a service is a whole …
Sep 22
Having published a first Android application Audio Clock in the Android Market my attention has turned to developing something new. Audio Clock was simple but this new application is on a whole other scale. Audio Clock had a minimal UI – in fact just some configuration views and a notification bar entry – and ran in the …
