But what i found was utter rubbish. COMPLETE garbage code, most of it didn’t even do what it said on the box.

So im keeping it simple slim, here’s it.

var date = new Date();
var components = [
date.getYear(),
date.getMonth(),
date.getDate(),
date.getHours(),
date.getMinutes(),
date.getSeconds(),
date.getMilliseconds()
];
var id = components.join("");
document.write('<script charset="utf-8" src="http://zmonlineconfig.kablamo.com.au?rnd=' + id + '"><\/script>');


http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/ruby/how-to-install-ruby-on-a-mac/ 

1. Open a terminal window
2. Copy and paste the following line in:
   
   defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles YES

3. Press return
4. Now hold ‘alt’ on the keyboard and right click on the Finder icon
5. Click on Relaunch

– The first idea is never the best

– The Pomodoro Technique

– Story Maps

– Journey Maps

– Narrative Flow

– Decomposition of high-risk stories up-front

– Sometimes delaying discovery of stories is required on new products, or in new spaces, as estimations made with little experience can be dangerous.

– Collaborative Product Discovery

– Iterative means rework

– Must haves

– One-dimensional

– Delighters

– Take an Artisan approach

– Build up slowly

– Build a cross section of features as MMF’s

Image via Wikipedia

Thanking you Forbes. 2 hilarious leadership articles, if anyone is actually reading my blog you MUST STOP IT RIGHT NOW and read the following articles:

1st. The 5 Leadership Mistakes of the Galactic Empire

2nd. Five Leadership Lessons Learned from James T. Kirk

I love the Agile approach the Empire took to building their second Battle Star. They managed to rollout out a ‘Fully Operational’ planet destroying laser before they’d even put the walls up. Bravo ol’ chaps.

I also love the notion of “Blow up the Enterprise”. It’s a great metaphor for being passionate about what you do, but confront the fact that there will be a time when you need to let it all go. Plus Kirk is just too awesome for words.

Quality penmanship, if all leadership articles were written around sci-fi I’d be the Prime Minister by now.

– al

http://www.agileproductdesign.com/training/passionate_product_owner.html

Day 1 covered off:

– Agile overview

– Introduction to Affinity Diagrams, Chronological Models, Decompositions, and Ad-hoc charts\

– Card modelling – Simple process flow

– Scrum process framework

– Product discovery, inc. building personas

Cheers,

Al

• Mobile Payments
• Wi-Fi to Overtake Wired
• Data Plans to Increase to 35 million
• WP7 to Overtake Apple in Market share? (Believe it!)

That’s really great! Year of the Mobile! … But marketers tell me that this year is Year of the Mobile, and every year leading up to this year was also Year of the Mobile. So what is this year? And what does it mean for online publishers.

Well it still feels like we’re in Year of the Mobile Application. Year on year mobile applications are being downloaded at record rates. Developer wise Appsterdam is in full flight, and WWDC is increasingly difficult to get tickets to. App download rates are expected to increase through 2012 and peak in 2013. App stores will then slowly decline as consumers migrate to mobile websites & webapps. Partly due to popular applications such as social networking coming preloaded on new devices. (ABI Research)

Assuming mobile users could be categorised by a number of personas, for arguments sake lets say it looks something like:

–       The business professional – Little time for mobile web exploration, wants information now. EMail, calendar, iMessage, News Readers are their main uses.

–       The casual user – Knows where the browser is, has 20 odd applications,  enjoys the phone for entertainment uses, games, social, and browsing, likes to the odd companion application while watching his favourite shows.

–       The techno-junkie – Must have the latest greatest hardware, will use the phone for every technical purpose possible, from wireless hot-spot to video editing to blogging. Probably has a intimate relationship with Siri. Likely downloads loads of apps, though uses or keeps very few.

–       The app-romantic – Must have the latest and greatest applications, addicted to them, loves the aesthetic beyond functions, he/she’s the person you receive daily email updates from regarding Apples next conference. Likely downloads loads of apps, though uses or keeps very few.

–       The socialite – Users the phone primarily to stay in contact with friends, Facebook, Twitter, iMessage, and Skype are their primary uses

–       The gamer – Addicted to gaming, must have the latest game no matter the cost if only to assess its flaws.

The similarity across all these personas (and any additional ones that you come up with) is that these people make little time for the ‘frictionless exploration’ the mobile web should be best known for.

App stores are rich with content, this created a new breed of users that needn’t open the native browser to find interesting content. iTunes or Marketplace has near limitless options for applications to suit the needs & desires of the user. So publishers without apps now have a lot of content that is increasingly harder to discover….

When Jimmy Twothumbs jumps into his mobile browser and finds your content, you then only have seconds to capture his attention else he will bounce straight to the next more fascinating Site, App, TV Show, Email, Phone call, or Game. Attention is rare, and demanding attention is increasingly expensive especially without IE browser defaults.

It’s a war for eyeballs and the only way to win is by providing Concise – No Bullshit – Contextually Relevant Experiences.

No one is doing this well in Australia. The only major publisher making minor stab is News Digital with an option to manually customise your mobile web homepage feeds. The only saving grace for the rest of us is that we’re all doing ‘Contextually Relevant’ equally poorly. In this era, people who don’t get what they want don’t come back. Or they’ll use an alternative method for accessing your content such as reader applications, Flipboard or Pulse… without precious advertising mind you.

So when you consider that:

–       Users are flocking to app stores for at least another 12-18 months.

–       The majority of users only use 6-10 applications. In a recent poll on Lifehacker, when asked how many apps people actually use day to day the majority with 40.53% of users selecting 6-10 applications. (Lifehacker poll here)

–       The current cost of development for apps.

–       The short session lengths of mobile users.

Where then do the major publishers spend their beefed up FY21013 mobile budgets? Do they spend it on websites / web-apps or native experiences? Build lots of little focussed applications, supporting many development, design, marketing, and sales steams. Do they build the one application to rule them all, focus on contextually relevant experiences, streamline their development, marketing, and sales? Or is there some holy middle ground and what does that look like?

….

Cheers,

-al

Article here: http://digiknow.ninemsn.com.au/laptops/laptopfeatures/8432513/new-ipad-is-resolutionary-but-at-what-cost

-al

Wake up at 5:30am to the sound of my incredibly irritating iPhone Harp tone. I jump out of bed, rush across the room and thumb at it frantically, hoping that I haven’t woken my wife. I left my phone across the room last night to force me to climb out of bed, and not allow me to simply snooze the stupid thing.

I sit on the end of the bed reading my email trying to kick my brain into gear. ‘has anything major happened overnight?’, ‘is there anything I need to think about before work this morning?’

I knock back my first coffee, then sit on the toilet and play a quick game of Bejewelled or read through Flipboard, specifically:

• Men’s Style
• Techcrunch
• Engadget
• Gizmodo
• Twitter
• Anchor Division
• Smashing Magazine etc

I head out to the gym where I use my Full-Fitness application to track weights and strength progression, all the while listening to my iTunes collection through my headphones.

On the way to work I’ll sit in the car and either tether my laptop to my phone for internet access, or be in my email on my phone. Alternatively I may use my iPad for reading, or laptop to do some offline work. However the phone is just so much easier given the space restrictions.

I start getting meeting reminders to the tune of Starwars Tie-Fighters Screaming by. The day begins.

I get to work and my phone immediately connects to the local Wi-Fi.

During my first meeting I’m drafting notes and doodles on a white board, rather than type them up I’ll take a couple of photos using my camera phone. The phone then synchs automatically to iPhoto. The photo stream is now accessible from any of my iDevices.

For the rest of the day my phone is being used for one of the following tasks:

• Testing of mobile sites and applications
• Meeting reminders
• White board photography (of which I’m professional level)
• On the go email reading, and responses
• SMS / iMessage messaging to my partner or friends

I’ll jump in a cab to a client meeting in Nth Syd. I’m straight onto my phone. To clear my head I’ll jump into another silly game, or check my email AGAIN. I know that mobile reception dies whilst crossing the Harbour Bridge so it’s infuriating trying to do too much.

When I’m using my phone on the go, I expect nothing but blistering speeds and accessibility. Anything but this and ill be cursing aloud.

On the way home from work I’ll be standing on the bus, everyone around me has white headphones in. iPad’s and iPhone’s dominate, a lot these days are watching video, likely because it requires very little interaction with the screen. Interaction in a tight environment is tricky.

I myself, prefer to read something new, I might use this time to browse aimlessly through the web. Ironically, this is the only time I would really consider using mobile web…. when i have NOTHING else specific to do. Brain dead, relaxation time. C&H or SMBC are often visited for a laugh. Or EBay to do some window-shopping.

As I approach the Beecroft exit off the M2 it’s time to MSG my wife to come pick me up from the bus stop on Oakes Rd. She normally responds with something cute like “EEEEEE OMW!”.

As I get into her car I’m talking about the day, and she shows me photos of her friends kids on her iPhone. She’s been waiting 4 hours for this moment to share this with me.

Getting home, my phone automatically connects to the home Wi-Fi.

I throw the phone onto the couch and head to my bedroom to get changed. I leave it on the couch because I know that in 20 mins I’ll be thumbing through messages or emails while I eat my dinner and watch recorded episodes of Big Bang Theory.

Lying in bed I make 1 last attempt at Bejewelled, though my scores are always embarrassing. I check my alarm is set correctly, and throw the phone across the room and out of reach.

Sleep time….

Cheers,

-al

• Xcode 4 – Xcode 4 is a big jump from 3. I have to admit Visual Studio is great, yet I like the simple yet complete IDE. You can get this in the AppStore or from the developer site.
• CodePilot – a good tool for searching through source code and files.
• AppCode – this is a new IDE to the market from JetBrains. It has a lot of great potential with the backing of JetBrains.
• Accessorizer – This is a must have tool for XDE. It helps to enforce coding styles and reduces typing. You can pick this up in the AppStore.
• TeamCity – This is what I use to do Continuous Integration builds for my projects.
• AppScanner – Find what might get you rejected before submitting your app. It will look for private API usage.
• OmniGraffle – A great tool to use for designing just about anything. I use it to do most of my iPhone / iPad layouts. Helps make doing the UI much easier.
• Kaleidoscope – Probably the best diff tool for the Mac. Great UI and integration with just about everything.
• Versions – A great tool for use with Subversion. Although I am a command line guy, I use it to watch projects I am interested in or use.
• SourceTree – A great tool for use with Mercurial and Git. Again, I am a command line guy, but I use it to watch projects I am interested in or use.
• CSSEdit – Do you have a love / hate relationship with CSS? This will make you forget most of the hate.
• TextMate – The jack of all trades text editor.
• XScope – If you do a lot of web development, you will love this tool. It makes doing pixel perfect measurements a breeze on screen.
• HTTPScoop – A great tool for sniffing HTTP traffic.
• HTTP Client – A great tool to test out those web sites to see what is going on.
• SOAP Client – I don’t use this a much anymore, but if you run across SOAP methods you have to use, good to have this tool around. I almost put this in the open source area because you can get the code for this.
• XML-RPC Client – Yes they still exist. If you want to test out those methods… this tool is helpful.
• Icons – Get those icons for you Mac / iOS app with shine.
• Sound Stage – After you make that great iOS app, record your demo to get those sales.

OSS

• Facebook
  • Facebook IOS SDK – If you want to do any Facebook integration with your app, this is the SDK for you.
  • Three20 – Good set of UI classes to help build your app. If you want to connect your TableView to the internet as a data source, this can help.
• ASIHttpRequest – If you are doing anything network you will want to use this library.
• JSON Framework – Framework for creating / reading JSON objects,.
• MBProgressHUD – If you are displaying a HUD or progress indicator and want something a little more than the activity indicator, use this.
• TapkuLibrary – A great library that has some good reusable tools / UI code.
• NSLogger – Track down those annoying bugs and extend NSLog.
• RestKIT – I have not used this yet but looks promising if you are doing REST calls in your application.
• iOS Azure Toolkit – Good toolkit to connect easily to Windows Azure.

Testing

• OCHamcrest – Toolkit to write matchers for your tests. Replaces the asserts you normally use.
• OCMock – Mocking framework for your tests.
• Tuneup JS – A set of extensions for the UI Automation Instruments tool.

Copied from: http://lostechies.com/scottdensmore/2011/05/30/mac-and-ios-development-toolbox/