Matthew Baxter-Reynolds (@mbrit)

My Tweets

• By me on Kindle: Introduction to Amazon Web Services - http://t.co/BtC9nRLH. #aws #s3 #ec2 (It's free if you get my newsletter)
• What's worse? Being charged £6 odd per ISBN number (+£50 registration), or that the process is entirely paper-based.
• Anyone know this? On Kindle self-publishing, an ISBN is *not* required. On iBookstore, it *is*? Is that right?
• BOOOM! iTunes Connect account improved. Time for for iBooks Author action.
• I hate rolling out this piece of software... have to do it manually across the farm, can't automated it. #bah
• Question 1: Do iPad users like gaming? Question 2: Is XNA easier to write games in than DirectX? Question 3: Why is XNA missing from Win8?
• XNA for me was a standout brilliant feature of WP. (For me, the only standout win). Yet it's not in Win8? #facepalmcontnues
• Using a £5 micro-SIM punch. Before: http://t.co/gOo7ckun and after: http://t.co/jcdbdJyM // cc @charlesarthur
• By me @ Guardian Why Microsoft needs to get Michael Bublé working on Windows 8 http://t.co/Yxa6gugj
• Ha! My @winrtppl bot picked up my new Guardian article on WinRT before me! #botsftw
• Re the DropBox syncing - @edent has an answer (for geeks): http://t.co/2jIuX8Oy
• Is there a network appliance that syncs a DropBox account onto a NAS? Would totally buy that for DR.
• Seven days into waiting for Apple to approve my iBooks account with no comms. Yeah so lovely thanks very much for that guys.
• By me on Kindle: Introduction to Amazon Web Services - http://t.co/BtC9nRLH. Buy it from Amazon, or sign-up to my newsletter and it's free!
• Option a) Do proper work. Option b) Do proper work, but involve CoffeeScript.
• After nearly a year of using a Mac every day, as opposed to 20 years of using Windows, the Mac needs rebooting *much* more often. #ducks
• El Reg bit on Red Hat running on Azure, Node.js goodness: http://t.co/6ujSdIB6
• No idea why, but the ideal backing music for the code hackery I'm doing this morning in Tori Amos. O_o
• Visual Studio needs a "Break into Debugger" on the test runner. (Start test without debugging, attach debugger to that process.)
• Always interesting to read about plumbing... this is Reddit's infrastructure: http://t.co/GDTdz85D
• Struggling to explain this - police radar gun registers 300mph during routine operation. Comedy ensues: http://t.co/XTLIuXQd
• Anyone else have a sort of sense of "Black Mirror" re Twitter's reaction re #savetheintern?
• Like data? Like maps? Like helicopters? Like custom software, in a helicopter, saving lives? Check out: http://t.co/SDUKJoE5
• Recommendations for a basic image editor for OS X that's a bit like FIreworks, but free? (e.g. Paint.NET on Windows.)
• Nokia's results show MS giving them quarter-of-a-billion dollars towards the end of last year: http://t.co/BgL0ESjI
• By any chance does anyone know how much it might cost to print an A0 size poster, full colour, DPS bleed, *big* run (e.g. 10,000+) Ta!
• It took 10 years, but I'm calling it a day on dynamically building markup on the server. No more.
• RT @getwired: HTC to focus on 'hero' phones, downplay tablets in 2012 | Electronista http://t.co/zMroP9KS << *downplay tablets*
• Remaining Monty Python members regroup for new film: http://t.co/APx0E9oz
• Trying out CoffeeScript. Not sure I can understand a language without semicolons.
• I'm a little bit sad that I find this funny: http://t.co/JVoQaYma
• .@maryjofoley got me thinking about RedHawk references in Win8. Ended up here: http://t.co/f2ms62aH. Worth reading if you like Win8 stuff.
• RT @maryjofoley: @mbrit: Another attempt to redo the Win8 arch slide via @josefardo: http://t.co/WkidwGXq #winrt
• Everyone - listen up, it's 76 minutes to Thursday (by my watch).
• At WinRT People: Problem with RSS item ordering now fixed: We’ve had a problem with the ordering of items in our... http://t.co/8ZegqtZ6
• Wow... @gruber is posting a lot this evening.
• Oh no no no no no no: http://t.co/VkyoXaJn. Nooooooo... #yikes
• People retweeting a tweet where I misspelt "achievement"? Achivement (sic) unlocked.
• HP announces the schedule for webOS licensing. http://t.co/Yt8UAQpR. Full system out by September.
• Ah, IRS. You really, *really* make everything as hard as you possibly can, don't you.
• Went out for dinner. Had haggis.
• “@RoryBecker: Dear Twitter, since you're clearly not using the original Tweekdeck (air version) any chance you could open source it?” <<+1!
• Daily Mail now has the widest reach online of any paper in the world xmbr.it/zK8K0a. Further evidence that we're living in The Matrix.
• That O2 problem was probably caused by one character uncommenting a line in a whitelist file. Go careful out there, people.
• LEGO does Minecraft. http://t.co/Kcrxp5Wu <whimpers>
• Comment from O2 on the leaky number thing - http://t.co/HqCAckL8. @kenstechtips suggested whitelist failure - think he's right.
• So, how long have fictional characters been writing for the Guardian: http://t.co/K1JKnqWQ?
• Just got an email from a recruiter with "XYZ is a British candidate", with "British candidate" in bold. That's gotta be illegal, right?
• "RT @kenstechtips: @mbrit I think they only meant to send it to their own websites, probably a whitelist failure." << Yes, smart thinking.
• O2 being able to switch off the number coming through to the sites means that nothing important was *needing* that data.
• You know before when I said about Apple's profits for 1/4 being more than Google's revenue for the year. Ignore me. #getshiscoat
• Have actually managed to make a Kindle ebook look pretty decent using Scrivener. Much easier than in Word.
• Apple's last quarter profile exceed Google's last year revenue. Well, obviously you can make more money building stuff than selling adverts.
• Oh, this is funny! http://t.co/07xAtLBA // via @stroughtonsmith
• Twitter! Recommendations for venues in Central London for running technical seminars, 30-40 people, catered, all day affairs...
• OK, so I did a thing that shows you your phone number on O2 *and* your location: http://t.co/gxkZpbMq // @adrianshort @charlesarthur
• This O2 phone number thing reminds me of Apple removing the UDID. http://t.co/9r5GVCom. Which identifier would you rather broadcast?
• Via @tomwarren - O2 sending the device's phone number in the HTTP header - confirmed for my device: http://t.co/MFdmlmK2
• Just to put some pressure on, @giffgaff rebadge O2 so my giffgaff'd iPad also sends through the phone number. // cc @tomwarren
• I thought about doing a PhD this morning, but I decided to use the same mental effort trying to make a self-published Kindle look decent.
• All this talk about iBooks... Do we all know that Amazon takes 65% commission on non-US Kindle sales?
• Even if you know your mobile device market onions, this is well worth a read: http://t.co/g1DKDf8u
• Via @grumpusnation - WOW - this is an awesome thing for kids: http://t.co/AA8DNpz0
• Via @maryjofoley - MS replacing Mix conference: http://t.co/b24URace #winrt
• WTF... so I can't run AdWords for "WinRT" because Google says that it mentions a trademark and is therefore not allowed...
• Building C# custom controls in #WInRT: http://t.co/Cn9C1DhW
• "How I learned to stop worrying and love the iBA EULA": http://t.co/a9Y7TZck
• I'm now waiting on approvals from AdWords, Amazon, and Apple for various bits. This isn't the brave new world I was looking for...
• Is there anyway to check the status of an iTunes Connect approval, or do I just have to sit here like a lemon for days...?
• I hate this HTML5 "what to use when tool", but I also love it as well. http://t.co/MDIDGEX8
• Drive C:. Free space: 0MB. #dammit
• Siri really is pretty flaky.
• Bill Turnbull's cello identification skills are weak this morning.
• Cooling superconductors with lasers: http://t.co/HNHeMgaW. As you do.
• Another history question... Which version of WIndows experienced the end of it's mainstream support on 31st December 2001?
• Without looking, what month and year was the iPad announced...
• Close, January 27th 2010.
• RIM's new CEO says he'll be "more consumer driven". http://t.co/Zhadr8KP. RIM in enterprise = HUGE success. RIM outside enterprise = meh.
• Yum...that was a delicious "off by one" bug. Made my entire day!
• An unofficial app store for apps banned by Google: http://t.co/DtEurGEq
• Hadn't thought of this problem with URL shorteners: http://t.co/KjzRFKMv
• Hang on... the guy who ran MegaUpload was actually called "Kim Dotcom". http://t.co/1YN3KiUg (That article is worth a read! Wtf all round.)
• *sigh* my iTunes Connect account still isn't active ... #ibookswaiting
• (Leaked) bit about the changes of the XAML team at MS: http://t.co/8THAxYj2
• I'm at a children's a party. A four-year-old has been given a laser pen as a present. He's test driving it... #terrified
• Terrifying. http://t.co/AMquyDNJ
• Kids are playing outside, but I think it's 0 deg K outside. Must be more though as they're moving about.
• Um. SIM free Lumia 800 £120 from Argos. http://t.co/eWicK94v via @MattFitchett
• Great bit by @getwired on "premature innovation": http://t.co/x4ym2Nnx
• In other news, 20+ tools of using DTP tools on Windows has rendered iBooks Author baffling in the extreme.
• Does anyone else find that iBooks Author is extremely hyphen happy? #justbreakitontoanewlineforgodssake
• Oooh... @maryjofoley did a lovely bit on Windows 8 devs experience on WinRT thus far: http://t.co/ITvJeziF
• OK, so this is frustrating. First iBooks book is ready to go, but can't publish it as my accounts not active. :-/
• Am hacking away at an ebook in iBooks Author. Only problem - iTunes Connect account not yet approved.
• It appears you can't signup for iTunes Connect using an email address with a plus sign in it. Lovely.
• iBookstore/iTunes Connect signup keeps failing - grrr
• Prediction - iBooks Author + iTunes just did for niche writers what iPhone + App Store did for cottage industry developers. Huge, huge, huge
• That said, good but from @mattgemmell about niche authors using iBooks.
• ...and I'm late.
• Lazy web - anyone got a steer on where I can find stock photography for use in a self-published ebook?
• I can't believe with this iBooks stuff yesterday no one said: "So, this is DTP, right?"
• Playing with iBooks Author. Looks good, but the UX really messes with your head. #applestuff
• Maybe they'll be more events when the Win8 beta hits, but MS UK has no upcoming WinRT developer events? http://t.co/zcZP5cmb WTF?
• The new iBook EULA stuff is not looking good thus far. Hoping for Hanlon's Razor on this one... http://t.co/ik0GyQb6
• In financial news - Google misses its quarter and shares dip 10%, Microsoft reports record revenue.
• RT @daringfireball: The Audacious iBooks Author EULA: http://t.co/gK6OXjRr << Um... really Apple?
• Google autocorrecting "WinRT" to "winter" really is not helpful...
• Had never heard of MegaUpload... #ohwellgonenow
• Wha... One of the VS achievements is "code on a Fri/Sat night". People won that *yesterday*.
• I love it when you sit through 120 seconds of ads on 4od and then it comes up with an error rather than the programme...
• I can't believe the VS achivements plug-in has only had 12500-odd downloads. Come on guys!
• Big question about textbooks on iPad - a lot of students sell their books at the end of their course...
• Engadgets new liveblogging platform is the nuts.
• In related news, the Engadget Apple event liveblog is here:http://t.co/tqEM0WZs
• That moment when you've been ripping the guys out of something refactoring for over an hour and you get a stack overflow when you run it...
• Activity X leads to Effect Y - just donated to Wikipedia for the first time.
• Ha! IT Crowd on 4od has got a "Sponsored by Reynholm Industries" as an advert on the page!
• Turns out I bought a wedge of Via coffee from starbucks last week and left it in there when I left. Grrr.
• I'm in a shop. It's unpleasant, crowded, noisy, confusing and expensive.
• 10 years ago I used to sit in Starbucks without an iPhone or twitter. what did I do for entertainment?
• What could be described as "software engineering standup comedy" - http://t.co/Mubl9svW via @mattfitchett
• Lazyweb - 10 Internets to the person who can direct me to an OSS tool for editing NDEF data for the OpenNFC simulator... No, 20 Internets.
• Gargh. That's the second time today I've actually needed Wikipedia.
• In related, related news the person who buys tea in this office bought Tesco own brand tea-bags. I can get no comfort from a nice cup of tea
• This, my friends, does not feel like winning: http://t.co/tJk1vY0j. Plus, actually, now it's doing this... http://t.co/DbCL8XbO
• *bangs head on desk* and *does a little yelp-like scream*
• This is why, in related news, it's a good idea to backup your entire dev VM now and again.
• That really odd feeling of using your own book to remember how to do something...
• At WinRT People: Twitter integration – Phase 1 complete!: You can now logon to the site using your Twitter accou... http://t.co/XyPpFee3
• If you were feeling conspiratorial, you'd read something into the fact that AdWords will not accept "WinRT" in ad copy. (Capitalisation.)
• Amazon's managed NoSQL database - http://t.co/4fLfWm56 // via @mattfitchett
• I'm using Eclipse. God I love using Eclipse. It's just do dirty and wrong.
• Dealing with a world of client-side JS, JSON and Web Forms creates a world that can be only be described with expletives.
• RT @jkendrick: Best SOPA blackout landing page, bar none. http://t.co/VXe4iVkC << HTML5 ftw. Clever.
• I used to have one of these old school tablets. http://t.co/tqd09A6O. Terrible device. Really, really awful.
• Why does VS let you create files like "Handler1.ashx". In every ... single ... case... that's the user making an error.
• You would think transferring a pension would be easy. It turns out that it is not. Thanks, pensions industry!
• RIM selling to Samsung: http://t.co/WRIY3ykO. Um... selling BBM and having that on Android could be the biggest win of all.
• Ah, the joy that is moving a Jira installation from one server t'another.
• Oracle v Google - judge has something to say re numbers being "obviously calculated to reach stratospheric numbers" http://t.co/VahuZsCh
• Rumour that Windows 8 tablets will go for between $600 and $1000 - http://t.co/GtoaWkU0
• Yum - SharpNLP, open source natural language processing tools: http://t.co/tiHDMaly
• OH: "Ah yes, the walls have eyes."
• The question is not how Sherlock faked his own death. The real cliffhanger is how he'll restore his reputation... :-)
• Pretty sure I can think of better things to do with £60m than buying a boat.
• At WinRT People: Rough edges – mid-January 2012: We’ve had a good first week with WinRT People – a decent number... http://t.co/bmZ9H4LX
• Amazon's doing Windows on its free-usage AWS tier now: http://t.co/1Fdhucz0
• This morning I'm spending some time doing VBA. #rockandorroll :-)
• Just @m4tt Ow.
• What would happen if Microsoft got a chance to rename CES? This: http://t.co/gmdooTqZ
• RT @hubmum: BBC Micro working :) http://t.co/2vyN1J6m << Wow!
• RT @asymco: A brief history of personal computing platforms. http://t.co/PYILgkz0 << WORTH A LOOK
• NARGH who the hell designed this thing?!?! x1000
• To the kids to see Happy Feet Two. One of the worst films I've seen in my life.
• Cold. http://t.co/S8Fujebp
• Girl is complaining that boy is playing Peppa Pig on the iPad while she's stuck with the iPhone. Go back four years and there'd be neither.
• OK, so it's not Sherlock, but the new series of Hustle is on at 2100.
• Leeds, I am in you.
• “@HAL9000_: sudo retweet this” << I had to. :-/
• Doh. Just filled out a bunch of forms for a US company and used a UK date format. December 1 2012, anyone?
• Happened a while ago, but ever so glad that PhoneGap was re-renamed from Apache Callback to Apache Cordova.
• Mr @mattfitchett has just had a billion dollar idea.
• Wow. That's not friendly: http://t.co/RVWK2XL2
• If you want to find content on WinRT, or people tweeting about WinRT, follow @winrtppl.
• Prediction: This new generic TLD stuff will be an *utter* disaster.
• I didn't know log4net was an Apache project... http://t.co/tEQJfKcF
• There's a car dealership down the road with a Starbucks franchise in it. This can go one of two ways.
• Apparently the Sherlock Season 1 DVD has the "previously unseen pilot episode" on it. Didn't get that with the iTunes version.
• Waiting for @EdwardBehan. But then, I am very early.
• Love this @gruber bit on Android/iPhone market share: http://t.co/EMv5L78j
• Tonight, there will be sashimi. It will sit there in front of me for a little while, and then it will be eaten. #delicious
• He's watching you - lenticular Steve Jobs. http://t.co/SaVetQCw
• Three foot long HDMI cable for $1,100 dollars. http://t.co/MujGfL0z
• Intel, Ultrabooks, faking... http://t.co/cN8qztRz - nope. Hanlon's razor.
• Did you learn HTML in the 90s? "Doing layout without tables". http://t.co/LUyBDUnk
• Anyone got any view/stories about anti-spam provision on Office 365 (for a client of mine).
• Do you think as a society we can agree that we already have the appropriate number of Android app stores? No more, plz http://t.co/HWmK2ErG
• Steven Hawking's New PC: http://t.co/3ZCJS7ey
• Right. So with Aspose Cells, to set the background colour of a cell you use the ForegroundColor property.
• Did Microsoft demonstrate anything new at CES last night?
• Lots of IT fail this morning. Intermittent DHCP failure, then VM'd Windows bluescreened, now won't come back up.
• Plus also left my iPad in hotel. On the plus side, have confirmed that Find my iPhone does indeed "find an iPhone/iPad".
• Playing the "Showcasing IE9" version of Cut the Rope on Chrome... on a Mac... http://t.co/n53VXlo4
• Geeks throughout the UK this morning will get a bit weepy-eyed at @charlesarthur's homage to the BBC Micro: http://t.co/54dfTXsa
• Lumia 900 claims to have a 300 hour standby time. http://t.co/wLu2jvyP #dropsdeadlaughing
• The net result of CES today is that I really fancy trying an Ultrabook.
• I mock "Inbox Zero". Got 67,041 emails right here.
• This isn't the answer for why iPad sells bazillions per year and Androids sell 4 or 5 units total: http://t.co/elZcfsi8
• Someone removed a reference to my GDN Lumia bit from the Lumia Wikipedia entry: http://t.co/JfSpMmMv cf. http://t.co/TdKsAEVU
• Weird "doing it wrong" edge case. You have to buy the Metro font (Segoe) if you want it on a (for example) Mac: http://t.co/aFl84vMV
• I have tons to do, yet the maximized application on my desktop is TweetDeck. #mustescapethevortextoftimesuck
• Fab article on Android virtualisation by @getwired. Do not get sucked into the vortex of crazy! http://t.co/S4fYbobF
• Now that CES is hopping, my regular tweeter feed is scrolling faster than an "#xfactor" feed during the X Factor final.
• Now *this* is proper CES: TI demos chip for Windows 8 on ARM: http://t.co/FsKUiAPl
• Pocket-lint appears to have the most grokkable CES content thus far: http://t.co/cbnxnSjs
• I can save £12 a year by going with Lovefilm as opposed to Netflix. Oh, the power of the markets. http://t.co/yrzU3O2P
• Brain has now melted trying to comprehend the new gadgetry from our friends at CES. Buy all the things, apparently.
• Is there a "Mute CES chatter" option in TweetDeck...?
• Wrong place, wrong time - prehistoric creatures trapped in amber: http://t.co/3k5XlDKd
• Windows 8 timeline leaked? http://t.co/jrAWCCfP