8 Feb 10 — Development / Interface / conference / speaking — 1 comment
If you’re attending my workshop in the US at NSConference 2010, I’d like to ask you to please read this and email your questions, topics and suggestions for what you’d like to cover. Anything at all is most welcome; it’s your workshop, and the reason the UK one went so well is because so many people contributed interesting points for us to discuss.
You can ask to remain entirely anonymous if you wish, and you can similarly contribute a question or issue that you’ve already solved – there might be scope for other views or some useful additions. In you have a possible topic in mind and aren’t sure about it, send it anyway!
You can send your thoughts to me via email to my gmail account (matt.gemmell) or to matt at this domain. Get those suggestions in.
7 Feb 10 — Development / Interface / Personal / Tech — 3 comments
I discovered Formspring today via Twitter, and I think it’s an interesting idea: you can ask people questions on anything you like, and see their responses listed. Very simple and not very original, but the lack of a need to sign up (though you can if you want to) and the simplicity of the interface is somehow very conducive to just asking and answering.
I’ve already answered almost 40 questions on all kinds of things (mostly Mac/iPad/iPhone UI/interaction questions), and I’ve love to hear yours – though please note that I’m more interested in giving my opinions on things than answering specific technical questions. You can ask me a question here.
5 Feb 10 — General / Interface / Tech — 113 comments
This is an open letter to the many companies who want to compete with the iPad. Sony, HP, the JooJoo people; all of them.
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14 Jan 10 — General / conference / speaking — No comments
This post is aimed at those attending my World According to Gemmell workshops at NSConference 2010, in either the UK or the US. If you’re already a confirmed attendee, you may very well receive an email to similar effect shortly. I’m looking forward to seeing all of you at NSConference, and particularly at our workshop.
My thinking regarding the workshop is that the best format is to work through several different discrete topics, much like my World According To Gemmell segments in the MDN Show podcast, exploring each one using examples and finding some best practices along the way. My feeling is that this way we can maximise the breadth of material covered and thus the benefit to everyone, without getting stuck in a narrow single exhaustive case-study or such. This willingness to cover plenty of topics in a discussion format was the main thing that was quoted as valuable from last year’s workshops.
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10 Jan 10 — Tech — 10 comments
I’ve just successfully installed Windows 7 (64-bit) on my iMac via Boot Camp, and wanted to post a few notes in the hope they’ll help anyone else who struggles with the process. This post describes how to resolve both an issue with Boot Camp Assistant (the “files cannot be moved” error), and also a problem where the Boot Camp drivers installer on Windows can refuse to install 64-bit drivers due to an “unrecognized system”.
My machine here is an early 2009 24″ iMac 3.06GHz Core 2 Duo (model “iMac9,1″), with 4Gb of DDR3 RAM, a 1Tb internal drive and an Nvidia GeForce GT 130 (512Mb) graphics card. The version of Windows 7 I wanted to install is the 64-bit version of Windows 7 Ultimate, and I’m currently running Snow Leopard 10.6.2. Necessary tools include a Snow Leopard installation DVD, and of course the Windows 7 installation DVD.
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