OiNutter's comments

OiNutter | 12 years ago | on: How sexist can a web developer job ad get?

I'm more offended by their inability to do a spelling and grammar check on content going on their public web site.

But yeah, that was an attempt to be funny that just fell way short.

OiNutter | 13 years ago | on: Newcastle startup scene reaches 'critical mass' [video]

I would definitely be interested to hear about this!

I was under the impression mislav was maintaining it at the moment. At least I've seen some commits from him in the last 2 months, including some a few hours ago, although that might have been prompted by this thread.

OiNutter | 13 years ago | on: [Ask HN]I want to contribute to an open source objective c project. Suggestions?

My Coderwall App (https://github.com/OiNutter/Coderwall-iOS) is open source and I'd be happy to have you to take a look and maybe make some suggestions. However it's my first ever app so I doubt it would do much to help you with your goal of becoming an engineer. Even so, if you want to take a look and get involved then feel free.

OiNutter | 13 years ago | on: Ask HN: Best iOS resource for non-iOS-developers?

I learnt a lot from the Stanford online courses on ITunes U. Granted they are video lessons, but you can also grab all the lecture notes and sample code from this link:

http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs193p/cgi-bin/drupal/download...

Other than that I just googled the hell out of things, Stack Overflow was, as always, a valuable resource. Chances are that whatever you're trying to do, particularly when learning, somebody else has already done.

OiNutter | 13 years ago | on: Apple's Gorgeous iOS 6 Product Page.

Hmm, like the layout, presents a lot of info well, but really not a fan of the font they've used for that top section. It's just on the edge of being hard to read, not quite, but not clear. And the main headers with the gradient effect just look a bit blurry to me.

OiNutter | 14 years ago | on: Ask HN: Best Git GUI For Windows?

Used to use SmartGit at my last job and that generally worked pretty well. New places uses svn :( so have got familiar with TortoiseSVN, which works pretty well, so would imagine TortoiseGit would also be a good choice.

OiNutter | 14 years ago | on: Poll: What's Your Most Disliked Programming Language?

What, no mention of ASP? Particularly Classic ASP? I had to use that at my first job and it was just painful! No proper array support makes me a sad boy!

OiNutter | 14 years ago | on: Famous Last Words by Bosses I've Had

Hmm, while I agree that it can be hard to keep on top of you emails in that kind of volume, if you're a boss, and you're bothered enough about being kept up to date on a project, perhaps some email rules that filter emails about that project into a seperate folder so you can see, quite easily that there are emails about that project, might be a good idea?

I occasionally get similair situations to this at work, which is why I request read receipts. Makes it even more satisfying when an account manager is having a go at you for not emailing them something and you point out they sent you a read receipt for it, they just obviously didn't actually read it. My account managers hate my read receipts :)

OiNutter | 14 years ago | on: "I've isolated the bug to a database query"

Reminds me of the stock update system for one of our major clients at my first job. The predecessor of myself and my colleague had thought it a brilliant idea to build a clothing ecommerce site, with a complete list of all stock going back to the year dot with ASP and Access (that's Classic ASP, not .NET). Towards the end the stock update would take pretty much an entire afternoon to run.

Eventually we got the approval to change to MySQL for the database. When they ran the first stock update with the new version they rang us up to check it had worked because it was near instantaneous.

The moral of the story: Access is BAD! VERY BAD!

OiNutter | 14 years ago | on: About Userlook

Hey, wasn't the third guy in the Man From Uncle?

...Sorry, I couldn't help myself!

OiNutter | 14 years ago | on: Introducing the Gmail app for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch

Yeah, would be a nice UI feature if it didn't cut off some of the labels, including Google's own "Important and unread" (at least I think it's that, the end is cut off...)

Think I'll just keep this app around for those odd times when I have to find an email from a week ago.