Tweets for Today

• 09:21 @mattgemmell Morning from London where it's also wet. :) #
• 11:10 Coo, they made Javascript editing in Netbeans 6.1 *really* clever - xrl.us/bjywz (Link to www.netbeans.org) #

Tweets for Today

• 08:26 OMG, Cameron actually said "You might say that but I couldn't possibly comment".... :) #
• 09:02 Installed Netbeans 6.1... Love the drag and drop web service client stuff - drag drop pow, Twitter access code... #
• 13:00 Someone who twitters about tree branches... twiglet #
• 13:39 Today - Netbeans 6.1, from zero to GUI app which shows Mutual friends on Twitter... NetBeans 6.1 is very rocking. #

Tweets for Today

• 09:38 Morning (puff) All (puff) been (puff) doing (puff) the (puff) old (puff) exercise (puff) bike (passes out) #
• 09:43 The Pet Shop Boys 'stars are blazing' mix of The Killers' Read My Mind == 7minutes 20secs of gorgeous superness #

Tweets for Today

• 08:09 @stevewpalmer tinyurl.com/6bz3qg #
• 10:35 Weeeeeeeeeeeeel I woke up in the morning, oh geidy gurdy dee ..... Folk Mornings.... #
• 11:57 @mattgemmell Welcome to the world of Nintendo's Super Shortage Brawl Bros.... #

Tweets for Today

• 09:22 Morning world. Now where did I put my zenlike focus. #
• 11:21 Stares at todo list. Damn, this "Do 20mins on the bike" isn't disappearing on its own. #
• 12:37 I don't think the HYPNOCLOCK is that great<agh! no! don't make me do that hypnoclock aaaaaaargh!> #
• 12:48 @mattgemmell Nice card set you have there.... #
• 14:56 Can I just say... I HATE HAVING TO MANAGE MEMORY! That is all. #
• 18:26 @MarkAllerton Well, so far nothing that makes a lazy coder like me comfy :) #

Tweets for Today

• 09:04 Morning all, just processing a pile of toast and marmite... mmmm crunch ..... #
• 09:21 Lore gets Twitter badgods.com/alttext6.html ... mmmm Pringles.... #
• 09:31 @fraserspeirs Hear hear, I hate how you have to blow at the same time as wiggling your fingers and still get a horrid noise... :) #
• 12:32 Wondering if there's a way to tell if a TableViewCell is in a small sectioned cell or a wide cell... #
• 12:36 @fraserspeirs (Obvious question) Tried switching cables? #
• 12:52 Watching the Hypnoclock spin post SDK install. ALL HAIL HYPNOCLOCK!. #
• 13:15 @mattgemmell Yeah, really.... Wait till it does the other docs... 200% plus here. Also takes aaages to do things. I'd get a coffee or three. #
• 20:34 Progress for the day, all my code seems to be working. Most important change, the contentView replacing view.... tomorrow, the code cleanup #

Tweets for Today

• 08:50 Penny Arcade shoots and scores - xrl.us/twitshit (Link to www.penny-arcade.com) #
• 09:23 @mdhughes but that begs the question... have you now or ever shwittered? (Just the question though, please no answers :) ) #
• 09:32 Another day waiting for a monitor swap out #
• 09:36 There should be a chocolate biscuit called a high five.... like an extended kitkat... #
• 09:50 @mattgemmell Ah, for me, I'd want a Chocorocitor, a chocolate Interociter. #
• 10:45 Oooh yeah, I want a hack to replace the time machine icon with a hypnotoad.... #
• 10:56 (Gently bangs head on desk going "HTF do I get a UIButton in a UITableViewCell"...) #
• 12:54 More worried about the fire in the Taco Bell. #
• 13:06 @mattgemmell If Scumspawn has been doing his job, yes... (ah... must put on some Old Harry's Game) #

Tweets for Today

• 12:20 Zen like focus on the code.... #

Tweets for Today

• 16:20 Nah... Pownce isn't grabbing me.... #
• 16:45 @jarober Uncheck "Show Twitter Errors in Tweets" in Twitterific's "System" preferences. Makes Twitter fails a lot easier on the eye. #
• 16:47 @jarober Oh and they are news since Twitter went to new hosting promising it would be fixing lotsa things. :) #
• 16:58 @jarober Twitter - It fails by design :) #
• 17:19 www.flickr.com/photos/codepope/2431688984/ #
• 17:25 @tug Yes, caught that. They do look like yummy pies. #
• 18:14 wooo.... 15M on Super Stardust Endless mode. Oh yeah, I was supposed to be coding.... #

Tweets for Today

• 09:12 Listening to the ten year anniversary Broadcasting House. #
• 19:36 @stevewpalmer - check irc #

Tweets for Today

• 08:03 tinyurl.com/59qm3v #
• 08:03 Stones version is better :) #
• 17:56 @mattgemmell And as soon as you said that, boom, my XCode starts going boom for the first time. <Resets "Save always" macro in brain> #

Tweets for Today

• 09:23 @mattgemmell Top of the morning to you. #
• 09:49 @mattgemmell That sounds like you want to see the country run by Picard.... A FRENCHMAN! Tsk! :D #
• 13:11 Installing EEE-Xubuntu on my EEE PC.... #
• 13:43 Ok, back to the original EEE OS, to check the battery state... #
• 19:41 @mdhughes I've tended to use Netbeans as my cross language and java ide, but still Xcode for cocoa. #
• 19:48 IDEs... more personal than your choice of underpants :) #
• 20:42 I have to say tinyurl.com/4rv53q is a great way of delivering docs. #

Tweets for Today

• 08:45 @mattgemmell Morning? The sunlight! Argh! I'm melting... melting.... what a world.... #
• 09:40 mmm... muffins, toasted, with bacon and cheese. And that wraps up breakfast. #
• 11:24 @mattgemmell Does that mean I call you Betty? :) #
• 11:48 @mattgemmell Heeeeeeeey wait a minute... You calling me Betty? #
• 12:31 @mattgemmell Not "You can now put Baby in the coroner"? #
• 16:39 @hotdogsladies A fist bump sounds a bit painful. But in keeping with papal traditions. :) #

Tweets for Today

• 09:43 @mattgemmell Mornin Mario Kart Legend :) #
• 09:47 Work hint if console game bugging you. Take controller, put in jiffy bag, post to yourself. 48 hours productivity! #
• 10:57 @mattgemmell I could never find the turbo boost to really drive along with it. :) #
• 11:23 @mattgemmell It's a lot of fun? (Well, thats what I found...) #
• 11:32 @mattgemmell @names.each { |x| puts x } ... there, with the block to execute. You are on a no-win microcomparing language syntax. :) #
• 11:34 Heh, there is someone with the twitter handle names. Wonder if their ears are burning. :) #
• 11:38 Oooh Portishead - xrl.us/bjd6p (Link to current.com) #
• 11:55 @mattgemmell Python? Oh come on, thats *too* *easy*... Smalltalk, now there's a challenge. #
• 11:59 Whee... slidey address book pages are working. Better get on with the rest of the code now. :) #
• 12:12 Me thinks @mattgemmell has got himself a new GTD app... where GTD is "Get Taunting Done" :) #
• 12:20 @mattgemmell Says the Legend! :D #
• 12:34 Giggle... goes together too well - tinyurl.com/6n3rdo #
• 13:42 Oh Wow... the expansion to Super Stardust HD just rocks.... #
• 14:00 @jarober <Flame On> :) #
• 15:01 @hypocrisy Find a source of fans for the Playstation 3 and sell them online there? :) #
• 20:44 @MarkAllerton - You inspired me to check out levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html :) #
• 21:50 @mdhughes try Inconsolata from here www.ghostscript.com/~raph/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html where it has a slashed 0 #

Tweets for Today

• 09:16 @mattgemmell Morning Legend - "The Breakfast for Heroes" ... :) #
• 13:02 Redoing all my contact stuff to use the AddressBook. Day of many errors and crashes. :) #
• 13:05 @mattgemmell Gimme Burnout Paradise over Mario Kart anyday... Always found Mario Kart disappointing on all Ninty consoles. #
• 13:06 Must... resist... powering...up... PS3.... only 110 races till Burnout Elite.... license...must...resiiiist! #
• 16:22 @Scobleizer Here. Have an "l". fits nicely between the b and o of bonde20 :) #
• 16:25 What happens when you add "Immoral Attorney General" to your resume - xrl.us/bjcu6 (Link to www.nytimes.com) #

Tweets for Today

• 08:13 Death... where is they sting... what... on tour with the police again... right, well that explains that. #
• 12:48 Boggling at the price of a PC at Asda - tinyurl.com/6luabz #
• 12:51 And yes, it does take aaaaaaaages to load. #

Tweets for Today

• 10:08 Always tempted by xrl.us/bjbf3 (Link to www.maplin.co.uk) just wish the controls weren't ugly #
• 10:18 @mattgemmell Morning Legend... (Thinks.... "Morning Legend" sounds like a fantasy novel title) #
• 10:21 @mattgemmell Or a sequel to "Crying Freeman" :) #
• 10:25 Thinking "Could you make a usuable Twitter client which used IM as its core protocol, only making API calls when necessary".... #
• 10:29 Blue spider bait - heh - xrl.us/bjbf9 (Link to 2ohreally.wordpress.com) #

Tweets for Today

• 09:42 @mattgemmell Confuse people and flip your Twitter image horizonally to make them think you have two good sides? #
• 09:43 Argh! iPhoto/Image Capture insists I have 3 pictures on my phone which aren't there and won't sync whats actually on the phone. Sweary++ #
• 10:20 Ok, now, the question is does the iPhone sync process keep a cache of photos on the mac somewhere as it's the only reason I can think of #
• 12:51 frustratedtwitter - Is there any example out there of ABPeoplePickerNavigationController? #
• 13:02 @mattgemmell I see where I went wrong ... goes back to pushing things in Xcode #
• 13:05 @robertbrook Thats hot rain and hail! :) #
• 14:36 Yay. An Addressbook appears. Boo. Won't bleeding go away now. #
• 14:43 Today I learnt what happens when you [[ Thing init] alloc] rather then [[Thing alloc] init] #
• 16:20 @MarkAllerton No, you get to feel like a donkey.... Now, I feel like some carrots. :) #
• 16:47 @JasonCalacanis Bit long. And heck you can get a real news show in 60 seconds - tinyurl.com/5dfalw #
• 17:47 And a reboot resolved my lack of photo syncing. Wonder what that was. #
• 20:18 @mattgemmell If it's followed by the GoGos and then the Go Team, then you might be in an infinite go tune loop #

Tweets for Today

• 09:59 @mattgemmell The entire table view cell loading has a smell about it (he said after adding reuseIdentifiers yesterday)... #
• 10:01 I suspect 80% of the SDK pain would go away with docs that updated when the SDK appeared and a delta document that explained changes. #
• 10:06 @mattgemmell Yes, but it's "added" "removed" "changed" and thats it. #
• 10:07 I'm fussy about docs. Call it a hang over from when I was full time writing them back at Micromuse. #
• 10:08 Realises that while he was making toast the docs here did update to include the delta doc. I made a lot of toast I did. :) #
• 13:10 Feels strong as he has just blocked chucknorris_ ... #

Tweets for Today

• 07:44 Up Up and Awaaaaaaaa..... ke. #
• 07:47 @markallerton Hellooooooooo! #
• 10:37 @fraserspeirs Yup. The docsets were marked as "Subscribe" but no apparent change. #
• 11:28 Working through code making it go again with the new SDK #
• 12:35 There, my code is working, as well as it was before the SDK update. Not very :) #

Tweets for Today

• 09:48 Oh, I'd have loved to have seen xrl.us/bi3on (Link to www.overheardinnewyork.com) #
• 09:51 I wonder when the complaints will start that Google App Engine doesn't allow for background processes (ala the iPhone SDK complaints) :) #
• 10:25 @robertbrook People say "Cut Gartner first" :) #
• 10:55 @mattgemmell I don't build one to throw away, I build one to recycle. #
• 14:46 @carterlusher I was responding to twitter.com/robertbrook/statuses/784939439 #
• 16:26 Zero productivity today... felt dreadful with non specific non specificness. #
• 16:49 Well, this is a nice quick intro to Google AppEngine - tinyurl.com/5jl7xc #
• 17:19 @spride hey what? #
• 17:45 @spride Um, I think you'll find thats your IM application, not Twitters fault. #

Tweets for Today

• 07:29 Getting the coffee... #
• 09:53 @dclinton www.freesatfromsky.co.uk/ #
• 09:54 @dclinton £20 for a card #
• 12:19 Activates l33t twitter blocking skillz.... :D #
• 12:33 @norock But they have policemen on rollerskates... #
• 12:46 Looking for tools to create an SQlite database with least hassle. #
• 16:41 @mattgemmell Misses the encompassing "Fantastic" ring :) #

Tweets for Today

• 08:40 Microsoft finally find a use for the font "Comic Blackmail Sans" - tinyurl.com/6cdghx #
• 10:24 @robertbrook Everything picks up speed when it goes downhill :) #
• 11:40 @mattgemmell And a snowy morning to you #
• 16:19 @mattgemmell Can you launch other apps? I had the same thing the other day and had to reboot. #
• 17:21 @fraserspeirs Use .to_ruby on the NSArray? #
• 17:27 @fraserspeirs Try OSX::NSImage.imageFileTypes().to_ruby #

Tweets for Today

• 08:24 Downloading the new Rifftrax "Are you Popular".. 50p? Bargain! xrl.us/bixqk (Link to www.rifftrax.com) #
• 08:37 Smiles at Today program. Tap dude does his thing. "Wonderful" "You should see me when I'm making money!"... #
• 12:53 Does one released menu bar applet make me a mac/cocoa developer or just a mac/cocoa dabbler? I dabble in too many things :) #
• 17:07 @tug You should see the weather forecast! Snow! #
• 17:40 You know you are on the edge when you enter a class name from an API and google has 1 result for the document where you found the class name #

Tweets for Today

• 08:13 @fraserspeirs Kiddies hate it when you drop them off at nursery an hour early.... :) #
• 09:05 le puff... le pew... and thats the static bike for the day done.... le puff.... le pew...* ( * now with cartoony references) #
• 09:27 Nice work Google - xrl.us/biv6c (Link to googleblog.blogspot.com) #
• 09:36 The most important biccy related news xrl.us/biv6e (Link to www.talkingretail.com) - now arriving in shops. YAY! #
• 11:30 @dima767 I'll put the URL up as soon as it's published online. #
• 11:31 @dima767 It's just another intro to Grails before you get too excited :) #
• 11:40 What if all the youtube memes fought to the death... xrl.us/biv8n (Link to valleywag.com) #
• 11:42 Hey, my Grails article is up, yay... xrl.us/biv8r (Link to www.heise-online.co.uk) #
• 12:34 Boing Boing Gadgets, subeditor Artie McStrawman - xrl.us/biv94 (Link to gadgets.boingboing.net) #
• 12:51 @tug Thanks! #
• 12:59 @dima767 Well, one wasn't asked to do an advanced Grails article.... I does what pays :) #
• 13:05 @dima767 Not a typo; the article is about the parallels... "Grails....delivered in the Grails style" is an oxymoron. :) #
• 13:53 @dima767 Ah, see what you are getting at. Good point. I'll prod the editor. :) #
• 13:55 Wishing there was an example for working with contacts in a certain SDK. #
• 14:41 @robertbrook Crude as in "Ugh step on banana skin, ugh fall down" :) #
• 16:03 Goes hussah as he finds some people talking addressbooks in a forum. :) #
• 16:49 Whee... contacts pop up... contacts crash... tries 'real' app... 'real' app crashes. Don't feel so bad now. #
• 17:26 @dalmaer You could always order a presentation kit from the Royal Mint - xrl.us/biwnn (Link to www.royalmint.com) #
• 17:47 @dclinton Don't install LCC, it sucks... #

Tweets for Today

• 09:56 Shiny Quicktime updates with lots of credits for TippingPoints Zero Day initiative out today.... #
• 11:34 Little Gamers do OOXML.... xrl.us/biuat (Link to www.little-gamers.com) #
• 13:33 Dammit... can't find me motivation.... This is why I need a development partner to nag me. :) #
• 13:43 @mattgemmell Eeek. Well, it's less motivation and more abject terror, but hey, I'm coding I'm coding! :) #
• 14:10 Hammers out a controller and takes a breather. Better debug that in a mo :) #
• 14:24 Ok, so as per usual, a quick implementation leads to more "I have to have a think about this now" mode :) #
• 15:48 @mattgemmell "Would" or "Will" :) #
• 16:11 @robertbrook Don't get too close to that BBC page Robert, the contact high from the Web2.0 stuff is a killer :) #
• 21:17 @robertbrook And the E70 (my phone before my iPhone).... #
• 21:20 @robertbrook Worked remarkable well did the "batwings"... And the screen may be small but packed full'o'pixies... #
• 21:22 @robertbrook Thats the phone my other half has. Quite sweet. #
• 21:38 @robertbrook She very much is. Maybe you should get some flame stickers for the phone to 'man' it up a bit.... :) #
• 21:44 @robertbrook Nah, one of these stickers xrl.us/biu5g (Link to www.swarthmore.edu) is hardcore... but I can't bear to put one on t ... #
• 21:45 @robertbrook (but there's a couple on my Macs :) ) #
• 22:00 @robertbrook www.expansys.com/p.aspx?i=146174 #

Tweets for Today

• 09:11 Raising the mental strength to take on Pickers.... mmmm.... coffee.... #
• 12:09 @mattgemmell Use Pairing? xrl.us/biscn (Link to docs.info.apple.com) #
• 12:11 @mattgemmell And here's the doc for the Universal Dock xrl.us/biscr (Link to docs.info.apple.com) #
• 12:15 @mattgemmell Of course, this assumes you have two remotes. The other option... sticky tape over the front of the dock. :) #
• 12:46 Google Reader is unwell.... I think it wants me to go code some more. #
• 15:04 And they say kids just don't know how to organise themselves... xrl.us/bish2 (Link to news.yahoo.com) #
• 15:39 @mattgemmell I don't have an hourly rate. I charge by the Papal Indulgence. #
• 18:15 Sweet... working Pickers. Thats enough for the day for me I think. #

Tweets for Today

• 09:01 Yay, have completed project and released it for big money. (See date) :) #
• 10:34 Google Calendar ... Create Event now has an "I'm feeling lucky" button. #
• 12:59 @mattgemmell Congrats, Mac Mini memory install qualifies you for a promotion to full Mac Nerd :) #
• 13:08 @mattgemmell Apple stickers. :) :) :) #
• 13:17 @mattgemmell Well... that just means you were already a full Mac Nerd then I guess. :) #
• 13:23 Wondering when the article I've done will be greenlit and online.... #
• 13:34 Reordering the todo list. Productivity inaction! #
• 14:49 I have a great idea for a new site.... isscobleontwitterorisitsafe.com ! #
• 14:55 Realises isscobleontwitterorisitsafe.com won't work as Scoble is never *off* twitter.... #
• 15:14 Reading a bit on Scala. I'm not getting it yet.... #
• 15:18 @dclinton Well, I'm thinking 'lisp'/functional but not having an "aha" moment. Must be missing something. :) #
• 17:28 Interesting tweak to USB on Toshiba laptops - xrl.us/biqhu (Link to www.hexus.net) #
• 22:20 It's the fuuuuuuuuuuture! HTTP://WWW.COBOLONCOGS.ORG/ #