CODE keyboard
After a long wait CODE keyboards are available again and I received mine last night. I have to confess that I am a bit of a keyboard junkie. I am reluctant to count them all but I am edging into …
Hardware
Campaign for better IO
Over the last 30 years I have used a lot of computers ranging from teletypes to laptops. I have also visited a lot of offices and seen the standard keyboards that people are using on a daily basis. …
Integrating GPUs in Application Development - From Concept to Deployment
This post is a little overdue :( In June I presented at QCon NYC on using GPUs. It was a great chance to catch up on all the changes to C and C++ that I have missed out on in recent years. You can …
The new Mac App Store
When Apple announced the new App Store for OS X I have to say I was a little underwhelmed at the prospect and did not think the new store would hold much interest. After all I have been pretty happy …
Optimising build times
I just came across this post and want to remember it so posing here. http://doublebuffered.com/2009/02/11/optimizing-build-times-for-large-c-projects/. I am most interested in the uplift in …
7 days with the iPad
So it has been 7 days since buying an iPad. Has it been the life changing event promised by all the pre-launch advertising? In my case I don’t think my life has changed but it has been enhanced by …
iPad and keyboards
There are some quirks to the way the apple bluetooth keyboard works with the iPad. Most of the keys work as you might expect and the pairing system works just fine. There is no real way to navigate …
iPad first day on the road
Today I took my new iPad for a day at work: A colleague had a 3G card for his laptop and shared the connection. Strangely this caused the iPad to pause quite often as if it were trying to connect to …
iPad first impressions
There has been a lot of hype around the iPad and I have to confess that after watching the original advertisement I was hooked. But was all the hype justified? On first use if you are an iPhone user …
Inclined Keyboard on MBP
 As anyone who knows me will say I have a thing about keyboards and have a few in my current collection. On a whim today I …