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woodylondon

343 karma · joined December 27, 2012

I am nearly 50 years old, my first computer was an Amstrad 464. A tech, travel, food, movie enthusiast currently living in London.

I have managed tech start-ups around the world and now work in digital transformation and tech consultancy. I started working in tech back in 1992 with DOS, Clipper, Visual Basic, and Delphi, then moved into the first .COM boom, followed by mobile technologies.

I skipped the crypto and web3 boom, but I believe AI is the new internet, and it feels like 1999 all over again!

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woodylondon··on Show HN: My first native iOS app – Cone, a real time color picker
This is so cool - just bought! Great work.
woodylondon··on Show HN: Kryptonite – a new home for your SSH private key
Nice idea - played a bit. Any plans to add Linode.com ?
woodylondon··on UK Prime Minister Theresa May announces intention to hold general election
I knew I should have put a bet on this, we were never going to leave Europe. Which ever parties manifesto says stay in Europe will win - end of story.
woodylondon··on Amazon Chime
Wondering if you have a Plus account and setup a call if you then have remote access, group chat etc - a little unclear what happens between Plus and Basic user. if all users need to be Plus then can see this being a problem.
woodylondon··on Ask HN: 32 and lost
Hey. email me at antpaul75@gmail.com
woodylondon··on The Grid: Certainly Misguided, Probably a Scam
i am sure so sure its a scam - check out the FB page and videos of the demo etc. An ex member of the team that got fired and now causing problems ? or maybe I am the ever optimist :-)
woodylondon··on Kantree – A better alternative to Trello
Its really nice - one of the better Trello clones. I just wish Trello development would restart - it seems to have got really slow in the last 6 months with no new major features etc.
woodylondon··on Ask HN: How do you deal with professional jealousy and getting older?
wait till you are a few weeks away from 40 and have the some thoughts :-(
woodylondon··on Was your Gmail compromised in yesterday's attack?
FYI > I checked all my accounts and one was leaked. HOWEVER, it was the password I used when I first setup the account in 2004, and has been changed many times since.
woodylondon··on Complete iOS7 Course for free
Also a deal for the iOS8 version, of course, from $499 > $79! http://bitfountain.io/course/complete-ios8/?couponCode=presa.... I am not connected to the company, but found the link to the deal :-)
woodylondon··on Ask HN: Single page CMS without PHP etc
Hi

Just to update. Its not possible due to Javascript security. I found this > http://jquery.tiddlywiki.org/twFile.html but looks messy. Same idea I think as the filesaver.js that was above. Long story sort - gone back to do this with PHP :-)

Thanks

woodylondon··on A free full-time 7-week coding course in London
Great idea! However, have you thought about a weekend / evening version for people working, but wanting to get out and do their own thing? I would so love to do this, but work full-time in a management role and the impossible just to not work for 7 weeks. I have so many ideas, but never really coded before and struggled with self learning.
woodylondon··on Sketch 3 released
It looks to have been fixed, Just installed the 3.0 trial from their website.

We have been evaluating a number of wireframing tools for iOS development over the last few weeks.

Having only played for 3.0 for 20mins, along with this stencil > http://www.teehanlax.com/tools/iphone-sketch-app/ (just need them to convert to the new Stencil) its pretty good. Best I have found so far.

I was about to start work with Omnigraffle which we had ended up with, but looks like I will be buying Sketch 3.0 end of today if no problems. We also tried Brief (http://giveabrief.com/) which concept wise is amazing but its not ready for prime time yet.

Photoshop was the other way, but unless you are a PS master just slow workflow.

woodylondon··on Put.io
My concern with this is that they will have your credit card details / address information. At a later stage should they have a big legal problem (which I suspect they will) the lawyers will come directly after you. It's a great idea, and if it was for legal use only, but you know what people are really going to use it for!
woodylondon··on How I went from 100 to 0 things (or how I was robbed of all my stuff)
Hoping you do a blog what you now buy to replace everything, based on all your travel experience.
woodylondon··on London's first pay-per-minute cafe
Genius idea! Long thought that about a space you could turn up, surf the web, chill out. If they have set this up as they describe could feel move like your home away from home. Surf the web, grab a drink, make some new friends etc. Going to check it out soon!
woodylondon··on Younited is available for download
Rubbish! Make me download an app, without much information. OK I was willing to give 2mins doing that. However, once it's downloaded and run I need to join a "wait" list of users so you cannot use the actual App. FAIL! Uninstalled.
woodylondon··on MobilECG
This is amazing, and it's so frustrating that you have not got all your funding.

I am Male, 38, a geek and overweight. In the last few years started having heart issues and had many 7 day event monitors. However, never managed to capture what my issue was. Each 7 day event monitor cost my medical insurance £3k! (In the UK). I spent hours on google researching and understanding arrhythmia. Most are benign, but not all.

What most people don't know is that an ECG machine or event monitor is all well and good, but for a lot of problems it needs to be attached when you have the incident. I have only had 5 incidents in 3 years. They could be harmless or they cloud kill me, but until you find out what they are its impossible to tell.

If this was on the market I would buy it, anyone that has had heart issues would know how important something like this is to get built and delivered into the market. The problem is, most people won't know they need this until later in life if at all.

Don't give up, please get this to market devices like this will save lives or at the very least reduce anxiety of people going through their first heart health issues to get a diagnosis of the problem.

Good luck!

woodylondon··on Diary of a programmer with no clue about marketing
First impressions are good, the main additional thing I would have done is to create a "video" overview. Most people just don't have the time to download, install, work out what is going on, etc etc. I do have 5mins to watch a quick video to see if this is for me. You can just do a screencast, voice it yourself. Keep it simple.
woodylondon··on My experience hiring a developer on Elance to build my first iPhone app
This was an interesting read, and had very similar experiences.

My current problem is an IOS developer who I have used on 2 projects without issue. I then started a new project 3 months ago which should have taken 2-3 weeks max. So far his mother, son have both died. He lost his house. His computer broke, and then another one. Finally his son died again!? Still nothing has been sent, and he has had 50% of the money.

I suspect the problem is that he has taken on too much work. I have paid him well in the past, been fair with spec changes etc. He saw me an easy touch to screw over on the 3rd project. No plans to work with him again. It's not the money that pisses me off, its the wasted time!

woodylondon··on Startup School 2013 – Live Stream
Just heard that the recordings will be put up like last year!
woodylondon··on Introducing Stripe UK
Just signed up. How crazy easy that was, no sending in a ton of information of waiting. Live account in 2mins. In fact it's cheaper than PayPal Pro! Paypal, Worldpay you are doomed!
woodylondon··on Full Stack Web Development
Great overview, as I started in 1992 I remember all of this :-) I moved into mobile development some years back, I kind of lost what happened since 2006. I was a ColdFusion developer in the good old days.

What you should also consider doing is creating a page with some sort of chart / grid / flow / overview of the various technologies (Javascript libraries, scripting, database etc.). Part of the problem I see is that there are so many open source solutions that’s very hard to work out which one you should be going with as your stack. There are all these terms like Bootstrap, Frameworks, etc – how do they all relate to each other ? If only someone would put together some way to explain all of them you would have a killer site on your hands for newbies and oldies! :-)

woodylondon··on Google Reader Apocalypse Extremely Fucking Nigh
Check out https://www.inoreader.com/ - tried the usual suspects like Feedly, OldReader etc and did not like them. I have not found anything bad yet about inoreader and about as close to the Google reader as I could get.

No iOS app yet :-( but I hear they are coming.

NetNewsWire might have have a new version soon so keep an eye on that as well.

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