An apology; The blog drought

On February 22, 2011 in General, Nottingham Trent University.
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University work. That’s the reason Iv’e fallen off the blogosphere recently. It’s been a really busy time, with birthday celebrations, university work and tight deadlines. Unfortunately I had to put blogging on the back-burner for a while!

But now I’m back, and have lots to talk about! In fact, as a signal of my return to the world of blogging, Iv’e bashed out three short articles on the work iv’e been concentrating on as part of my final year; Advanced Analysis and Design, Software Engineering, Business Analysis, Real-Time Analysis & Design and Project Management.

Iv’e tried to catagorise similar modules, using my own personal grouping criteria;

Advanced Analysis & Design and Software Engineering [The 'geeky' ones]
Business Analysis and Project Management [The 'business' ones]
Human Computer Interaction and RealTime Analysis & Design [The 'other' ones]

Of cause, there is also my Final Year Dissertation which I’ve been working on at points, which you can keep up to date with HERE.

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Delving into iPhone Development – Week One

On October 15, 2010 in Nottingham Trent University.
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It’s been just under a week since I began looking properly into the Software Development Kit (SDK) for my Final Year Dissertation (FYD) at Nottingham Trent University (NTU) – (Apologies for all the acronyms!). Iv’e learnt a couple of really interesting things already.

For example how to combine a TabBar based application with a Navigation Bar based application to create a multi-navigational application. This comes at a price. Load times! The application is already taking about 2-3 seconds to initiate (which is simply combated with a good looking splash screen and loading animation). I’m thinking that instead of using XIB’s I should be creating various views within one XIB. (Sorry if your not a developer, that last bit might not make much sense!).

But anyway, it’s been a good experience, and I’m already looking forward to carrying on! Iv’e got my phone details registered with Apple so I can develop and debug straight onto the device itself, which is particularly nice as Iv’e been playing with the Maps View (MKMapView) and tracking my actual location.

Iv’e created 6 versions (v0.1 – v0.6 in the project span so far) so I can tell already it’s going to be a big archive by the hand-in date next April. Because of this, I’ve created a page (under the Final Year Dissertation sub-page) where all the version revisions are logged. Check it out here. There is also an ever-growing list of functions and features which I intend to add at some point.

Week one – Success!

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University iPhone application poll

On April 13, 2010 in Apple, iPhone, Nottingham Trent University.
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Thanks for taking the time to visit this page. Please complete the Poll and submit your results. The findings from this poll may be published as part of my Final Year Dissertation and will definitely be used to help me make decisions regarding the direction of my project.

Which TWO of these options would you use most in a university based application?

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Apple MacBook Pro 13″ 2.53Ghz

On April 5, 2010 in #60SecondShout, Apple, Nottingham Trent University.
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Just a quick one to say I have my NEW MacBook Pro 13″ 2.53Ghz and I love it!

I’m going to use it for my final year dissertation project; Something along the lines of an educational interactive learning game developed using the iPhone platform (Basically a glorified iPhone application!!).

Due to this step-up in my educational performance and seriousness i’m going to add two new categories to the blog; Mac (for all my MacBook tutorials/issues/resolutions) and FYD (The one where I will talk about the progress of my Final Year Dissertation!

WHAY!

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