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Hell no!
Over the past 18 months I’ve occasionally googled the words ‘picklet’ and ‘picklets’ just to monitor my search engine findability. From the start ‘picklet’ has been consistently pointing to one of my project-related domains (picklet.net or picklets.net) but searching for the plural, ‘picklets’ returned recipes for ‘pikelets’ and offered a link to [...]
This week being my last in Berlin (for now) I have some technical goals I’m determined to hit.
At the end of this week I’ll send out the first beta of the Picklets app to any testers who’ve registered their device here;
https://testflightapp.com/join/efda1b2bb04e65b9a8294e3bd619f389-MjI4Mg/
So if you have an iPad (or iPhone, or [...]
I won’t mention the weather. #disappointing
This is what the whooshing sound of July’s deadline for the Picklets iPad app sounded like;
Development-relatedThrough July I worked a couple of days a week at a coworking space called Co.up in Berlin Kreuzberg. Excellent environment for my style of quiet, self-driven software development.
During one of [...]
I wanted to share an image of what I’m working on. It shows a picklet called ‘What Goes Around’ that isn’t a real picklet, just two panels of rotating text that I’m using for development. The picture shows the same picklet content, served from the same URL — one in a browser at 320×480 and [...]
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Breaking eggs to make picklets
Yesterday I noticed that the Picklet Store previews weren’t working. It’s happened before that my in-progress back-end development deployment breaks the current version of the Picklets app. A real engineer would have a) unit test coverage to catch the regression, b) monitoring of the live server that flags the service failure or c) both of [...]