http://paris.secretlab.com.au Opinionated Bastard Sun, 04 Jan 2009 12:33:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Finally got around to registering for LCA 2009. You can stop annoying me now. http://paris.secretlab.com.au/lca-2009/ Hi all! Just got back from a whirlwind tour of Melbourne, then Sydney - Jon and I have been running three-day REALbasic workshops for the AUC. Both went extremely well, a clever and engaging bunch of students all around! The material will be available online shortly, I'll update this ... http://paris.secretlab.com.au/realbasic-honours-secret-lab/ Please make sure that anyone who cares at all about the future of Australian freedom of internet access and censorship in general does what they can to stop Senator Stephen Conroy (Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy) from enacting his ridiculous plan for a technically and democratically unworkable ... http://paris.secretlab.com.au/no-clean-feed/ Just got back from AUCs fantastic /dev/world/2008 conference. It was a tremendous success, some great sessions were run. Jon Manning, Andrew Bennett and myself attended as presented and had some great feedback from our sessions on AppleScript, OpenGL and Polishing Applications, respectively. I met some great people and learnt ... http://paris.secretlab.com.au/auc-devworld2008/ http://paris.secretlab.com.au/spore-is-too-addictive/ Hard at work on my Honours thesis. I have almost completed my introductory chapter. Hopefully it actually makes sense, I'm planning on giving it to my supervisor to read sometime next week. I'll be giving a presentation at AUC's /dev/world 2008 conference in Melbourne entitled "Polishing Your Cocoa Application" - ... http://paris.secretlab.com.au/thesis-devworld-realbasic/ This previous Sunday Secret Lab was fortunate enough to appear in the Sunday Tasmanian! After being e-mailed by one of the editorial staff on Friday afternoon, I did a quick phone interview with them and we were rushed off to The Mercury building for a photo shoot. Jon Manning, Andrew Bennett ... http://paris.secretlab.com.au/media-attention-starbucks/ As Jon has noted, Culture is out on the iTunes App Store and as far as Secret Lab is concerned it's a resounding success - 3 sales in the first 20 minutes of the App Store and then Apple's stats page disappeared! But 3 sales! At the minimum! That's ... http://paris.secretlab.com.au/culture-out-for-iphone/ As Australia's iPhone release looms ever closer, the decision of whether to go with Telstra, Optus or Vodafone is undoubtedly on the minds of the Apple faithful here.  I've already decided, I think, to go with the enemy - Telstra. Their offer of free access to their WiFi points (i.e. ... http://paris.secretlab.com.au/iphone-release-culture-uni/ Greetings! I have returned to Australia after an uneventful series of flights and a 6-hours stopover and Sydney Airport. The trip was a resounding success, I met a whole stack of interesting and intelligent people and my contacts list has tripled in size. I learnt many things from WWDC itself ... http://paris.secretlab.com.au/back-in-the-ussr-australia/