perceptionz.net 2.0 > Productivity

Well I’m drafting this up on my iPad and let’s just say I’m very much impressed at the device. I’ve had no problems (even stable wifi!) Personally I am going to use it for keeping my CV and portfolio onto the iPad – the ultimate transition from paper. As for the virtual keyboard, in landscape [...]

Here’s a quick timesaver (thanks to the wonderful people at Google) to stay updated. You could also use this to aggregate any combination of sites with a little “Google-Fu”. Using Google Blog Search, you can create an RSS feed to search terms. As all my blogs sit on the *.perceptionz.net domain, you can simply add [...]

I’ve just stumbled across a photoshop PSD file with all the iPhone controls which will help with designing screens (without opening XCode / Interface Builder)

Well I’ve already decided on my next blog (which will focus a-lot on professional development). The name? Twenty Percent. The idea behind the name? Well the most innovative companies have implemented a thing called 20% time – which is time where engineers do not spend time on official projects but use the time to experiment [...]

Thought I might share this bit of code with the world to those who wish to delve a little bit further into UIKit coding (as opposed to doing it via Interface builder – which tries to simplify stuff too much in my opinion. And can be a bit daunting). For this code, you will need [...]

Ever had one of those PDF forms from the government which you would like to fill in electronically (after all it IS the 21st century – pen and paper is so last century!). Now you can thanks to Nitro Software’s PDF to word tool

In 2008, it was one really interesting year for my IT wise. Skills gained during the course of 2008: JRuby (Java and Ruby Bridge) PHP CLI Scripting Some python scripting iPhone Development – The beginning Selenium Remote Control A hell of a lot! Which leaves 2009 to think up some new challenges: So far possible [...]

The new improved “When did this post happen?!” feature (only if you view this on an iPhone or iPod Touch).   The catch? You have to download version 1.1 of UnixEpoch (At this time, it is pending AppStore approval). Don’t worry its FREE.   Another thing, with this main site you can enter in that [...]

Being the really busy person that I am and with a little simple bash script + an already generated ssh public key. I’ve created a simple shell script to tell the remote server to remember your login.   This will obviously only work if PASSWORD and KEY authentication are both enabled. The advantages of KEY [...]

I’ve written a little workflow customization script which allows you to record logins (and possibly any actions) – so you can do up usage reports, etc on current usage. Just ignore the variable names. as I really hate Microsoft.XMLHttp as it caches requests (so if someone logs in and logs out faster than the cacheing, [...]