I'm pleased to announce the release of TextQuick 1.5. As an previous purchaser of TextQuick you are entitled to a free copy....   more »

I'm so thrilled to be able to tell you all that I've completed TextQuick 1.5 ! It's now available to download...   more »

I want to tell you about how I'm opening up TextQuick to more people than ever before. I've put some exciting technology under the skin of the forth coming release of TextQuick. This enables me to deliver a better version of TextQuick, and it provides a fantastic platform for moving forward. There are some awesome plans under way to make TextQuick even better in the future.   more »

Symbian / Nokia removed the EPOCROOT environment variable. This tool let's you get it back, by obtaining the path to the currently selected environment.   more »

Since TextQuick 1.4 was released a handful of users contacted me with issues they discovered. Their input has been fantastic. As the saying goes “You can't fix something if you don't know it's broken”, and it's absolutely true.   more »

Happy New Year! I hope everyone had a fantastic holiday season. I'm pleased to announce that TextQuick 1.5 Release Candidate 1 is ready.   more »

Protothreads and how they can be used with Active Objects. - I discovered a really excellent paper on Protothreads. This paper describes how Protothreads can simplify code by removing the need to maintain the state information. They provide a stack-less light weight thread-like structure. It allows a developer to create code which looks and acts as if it's thread, although with a much reduced overhead not to mention producing code which more closely matches the developers original intention.   more »

With news of TextQuick 1.5   more »

Just a quick note to let you know that I'm taking a quick break, I'm away on holidays for the next two weeks. So development of TextQuick will be a on hold until I return. See you all real soon!   more »

Why does the letter " " cause so many problems, and in an emergency I can't call my friend. The bugs and their fixes coming soon in the first update to TextQuick 1.4   more »

The end of the beta period and the creation of the first release version of TextQuick, means I know get the chance to lift my head from the code and talk about some of the new features I've added.   more »

Chiseling at the code face to add a new feature to TextQuick.   more »

With the last of the major bugs out of the way it's time to look to the future, and adding some more features. What would you like to see included in TextQuick ?   more »

Just when I thought it was time to relax, I'm back at the code-face again.   more »

Make your phone easier to use.   more »

Woops, I missed an entire month.   more »

Synergy a software tool that provides a virtual KVM, excellent for sharing a full sized keyboard & real mouse between a desktop and a laptop.   more »

Does your S60 emulator crash on startup, well here is the fix.   more »

Following on from the replies I got from Symbian, I did some further investigation...   more »

As you probably gathered from my original posting although it was placed on this blog in April it was actually written before Christmas. In fact it was written in November last year. The original blog entry was in fact posted up on a Symbian internal forum. I got some of these replies vetted and forwarded to me recently, and now I've the opportunity to share with you some of the responses I received....   more »

Instructions on how to get your application launching automatically when you install it...   more »

Ok, I've been bashing the Symbian Signed program, but don't get me wrong I understand and appreciate why it's been put in place. It has very admirable aims.... but...   more »

Finally I think I've found a way to get my application out the door.... but only if I don't mind not getting paid for my efforts, call me cynical, but it would be good to be able to put food on the table every now and then.   more »

The Symbian ecosystem has to date provided me with my career. ...   more »

Configuration Management Systems / Source Control Software - All software developers encounter these things...   more »

It all started as a good idea in the pub... at lunch time.   more »