At our new co-working shared office in Stroud we needed a wireless speaker system that would allow anybody to throw music up onto the speakers from their computer or phone.
As it is a new business, we wanted to keep costs down – what I really wanted to get was some NOCS NS2 air monitors, but we have to start somewhere.
This time last year I was winding down my work on several Grails plugins and contracting for customers to help them with their Grails application development.
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I have a pet peeve relating to online avatars. Faces matter and it amazes me how many people do not get this.
So many people fail to set up a Gravatar for themselves, which covers many services and apps. Or they upload a weird picture. Or they let an app supply a default, like an egg or some random polygonal pattern.
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I haven’t written anything for ages. To be fair I have been rather busy, as I am far along my transition from Grails developer to iOS/Mac developer.
In addition to doing some work for the BBC on an iPad app prototype, I am also starting a new co-working space in Stroud with my business partner Adam Hinks, a graphic designer who also lives in Stroud.
It’s exciting to start a new business and work on creating a great working environment for people who would otherwise be work at home. Having worked closely with Adam for some time on an iOS project, the value of being on-site with talented people from different fields is abundantly clear. It seems increasingly important when trying to create great software products.
So please do try Cluster if you’re in the Stroud area of Gloucestershire, UK and looking for a shared office.
There is some real gold in the recently posted full interview with Jony Ive and Craig Federighi in Businessweek.
If you’re an Apple follower and have read the Jobs biography you will recall that Steve Jobs was crestfallen about the reaction people had to the iPad announcement.
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