Jonathan Cusick

On August 15th Belfast hosted the first Cupcake camp in Europe at Blick studios. A fantastic turn out, good times had by all, lots of noms and sugar highs that lasted all day.

Typically I forgot my camera and I had to make do with my iPhone but for good photos check out the #CCNI flickr group and the blog of Phil O’Kane.

For more information on Cupcake camp Northern Ireland check out the CCNI official website..

A great promotion for Office 2010.

Found this on XKCD and just had to post, remember this the next time you are developing and get tempted to make use of the goto statement.

Image by xkcd

The Onion has done it again check out the the following story and you will be amused all day:

Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard

After a few beers David Sherlock and I devicded to emabark on an iPhone development project. So far we have established a development environment, a wiki and blog which if your interested can be found at Simple Robot.

This project is still very much an experimental one in order to establish what other types of applications we can produce for this environment. So far we are comtemplaing creating a game which takes full advantage of all the features the iPhone has to offer including location based awareness through its GPS.

Any thoughts on your current iPhone application experiences and what features you would like to see in a new application would be greatly appreciated.

After nearly 4 years since the last installment of the ever popular Grand Theft Auto series by Rockstar, GTA IV finally hit the stores on April 29th. For anyone who has not had the opportunity to play this yet, it really is a must buy, even the mini games it offers such as pool and bowling are often better than the titles that are dedicated to those genres.

Currently I have completed the main quest and now the challenge is on to try and get all the achievements… next one up is txt message cars!

TrueCrypt 5.0a has been released and in addition to supporting Linux and Windows it now fully supports Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) and 10.5 (Leopard).

This is fantastic news for the Mac community as TrueCrypt is one of the best ways to ensure that your files can remain safe. TrueCrypt 5.0a can be downloaded from TrueCrypt.org.

This is also covered in the Security Now podcast (Episode 133) which is part of the TWIT network and is hosted by Leo Laporte and Steve Gibson. Episode 133 can be found over at the TWIT website.

This is a bit old now but it is more than worth a look especially if you have not seen it before.

While looking around on Digg I stumbled upon an excellent Linux command line reference. This is an excellent reference if you can not remember all the various command line syntax which is not an easy achievement.

The 2008 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) kicks off tomorrow in Las Vegas and lasts until Jan 10th. For those not in the loop this is a yearly event where manufactures announce and preview new products. This is an important event in the tech world as many major products have been announced at CES over the years such as the Xbox, HDTV, DVD, the Commodore 64 and the VCR just to name a few.

Live coverage of the show will be appearing all over the net but for those that want streaming video check out the Mogulus site (I discovered the Mogulus link while reading the blog of Robert Scoble).