2009 May

May 29, 2009

New Site - collab.ie

We are happy to announce the launch of our new site Find People | Find Skills | Get Involved - collab.ie Its a service for people with ideas who need help to make them happen.
We are vary happy with the result, although it was tough enough to complere as it was our first project using Ruby [...]

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May 8, 2009

The benefits of using SQL Server 2008 to send mail

While writing our SwiftStore we had a requirement to send emails from a number of points in the application. While this is easy to do it does present a number of technical issues:

Error handling on sending mail - you normally don’t want your app to fail because it can’t send a mail
Changing the mail content - [...]

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May 1, 2009

Review of DevDays Dublin - Apple iPhone Developer Conference

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On Thursday 23rd April I ventured out to the iPhone developer conference DevDays 2009 which was organised by the Digital Media Forum and Create Ireland. This was to be my first view of Apple from a development viewpoint and wanted to share my musings on the subject.
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Bear in mind my background approaching this – I [...]

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