Mike Irving's Blog
A Blog from Mike Irving, Software Developer
Welcome to my Web and Mobile Developer Blog. Here you will find the latest News and Rants about mobile apps, websites and the internet.
I also, occasionally, write blog posts on non-techie stuff too!
To begin, simply select an article from the list below.
Alternatively, choose a Blog Page to view a list of previous blogs.
23/11/2015 -
Slowly, over the last few months, I have been readying a new version of this website. Ironically, as a Mobile Software Developer, the previous version wasn't "Mobile Friendly", meaning that Smartphone...
15/10/2015 -
Last week I was lucky enough to be in Fleetwood, Lancashire, for a special 'once in a lifetime' tour of the Fisherman's Friend lozenge factory, as guest of Lofthouse of Fleetwood Ltd.
I came to be ...
2/10/2015 -
Last month, as expected, the new iOS software version was released.
However, all was not well on iOS 9 with my Xamarin built apps. Indeed, many apps it would seem, are not compatible. Perhaps even ...
30/9/2015 -
Since New Year, I have been using a Fitbit Charge Activity Tracker, after receiving it as a Christmas Gift.
Following the seasonal break, and the usual indulgences that followed, I began to take my...
20/2/2015 -
Yesterday I was amongst 400 Software Developers gathered in London at quite possibly most interesting, inspiring and genuinely useful Developer Event I have been to!
We were gathered as invitees of...
3/7/2014 -
I was an early iPhone adopter, buying an iPhone 3GS back in 2009. Within a year, I turned my attention to App Development on iPhone, and shortly afterwards the newly launched iPad.
My Apps continue...
17/5/2014 -
Yesterday I was at MadLab in Manchester to attend the Northwest England leg of Microsoft's //publish/ Windows event.
Across 48 hours, 60 //publish/ events have taken place worldwide, to encourage p...
14/4/2014 -
Last week I was in attendance as the Google Cloud Platform Roadshow visited the newly relocated Manchester TechHub.
I learnt a lot about the Cloud Platform offerings from Google, got some answers t...
30/3/2014 -
On Friday I was lucky enough to be one of a select bunch of European Developers to join the Nokia X - Go! Port Bus Tour, at the final stop in London!
The Bus, a converted, green painted, London Rou...
28/2/2014 -
I recently had reason to use Apache Cordova / PhoneGap to build a Native-Wrapped HTML5 App for use on iPad.
Whilst I have worked on PhoneGap / Cordova projects in the past, I found the setup proces...
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