Archive for the 'Software' Category

Fermenter Built

Monday, May 13th, 2013

Finished the build for the Fermenter over the weekend. Here’s a video going over the physical components for the project: The chamber itself is based on the Son of a Fermentation Chiller. with the only modification being that I made mine a bit smaller than their plans. The django based web app is all open-source. [...]

iAd Download Script

Wednesday, December 5th, 2012

Unfortunately Apple doesn’t have a nice easy API for downloading your revenue numbers from iAds. The only way around that right now is screen scraping the information, or manually downloading the reports. Thanks to the awesome python requests library I was able to put something together in just 50 lines of code. It’s a function [...]

Using tmux and Vim

Monday, August 27th, 2012

Working on the same projects from multiple computers can be difficult.  There are lots of solutions for this problem such as using Dropbox to sync files between computers. but that leaves your workspace to start from scratch ie when working from the office last I had these 10 files open, and a couple of things [...]

Clone an Xcode Project

Saturday, July 28th, 2012

I’ve got a couple of projects on the go right now, but one of the more interesting ones is a script that walks a user through the process of cloning an Xcode project and do some variable substitutions. With the final result being an iOS app that is ready to submit to the App Store. [...]

App Control Demo

Wednesday, July 11th, 2012

App Control is a Django App that I have been evolving over the last year for a backend service to support my (and my friends) iOS apps. It allows you to update them, push new content to them, and provide some central storage for building things like a commenting engine and to tie everyone who [...]

Mixing HTML5 and Native iOS

Thursday, July 5th, 2012

There’s a lot of people out there who have their favorite technologies and there are few more passionate debates than the issue of using HTML5 or native development for mobile apps. It’s still early days for HTML5 on a mobile platform, the technologies are still maturing and so there are fewer libraries out there for [...]

iTunes Download Stats

Wednesday, April 11th, 2012

Recently I’ve been building out my iPhone App server to provide a business dashboard with all the relevant services and numbers that I care about available at a glance. It avoids me having to sign in and out of many different sites to get the information and makes it easier to push things together – [...]

django-linkshare

Monday, April 2nd, 2012

One of the ways to make money on the itunes store is to sign up for the itunes affiliate program. Linkshare runs the program in the USA and they will give you a 5% commission on all sales that you refer. It works through cookie based tracking that is valid for 72 hours… Meaning that [...]

Fabric For Development

Thursday, March 22nd, 2012

Fabric is a pretty awesome tool for deploying projects. But it turns out that it’s also pretty awesome for lots of other stuff. At PyCon 2012 there was a talk given by Ricardo Kirkner (which you can watch here) that inspired me to play around with fabric in some new ways. It’s possible to use [...]

iAd Report Downloader Script

Wednesday, March 14th, 2012

I was surprised that there wasn’t already a script out there to download iAd reports from Apple’s iTunes Connect website. Apple released a Java based command line tool to download the sales reports for Apps but neglected to provide something similar for iAd publishers. Some Googling around I was further surprised that I couldn’t find [...]