Mick Walker ::

I have had a few emails of late regarding my Super Countdown application I wo...  
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Today I learnt something new. I personally think it is healthy to learn something new every single day; and when it is something you learn about something you didn't think there was anything left to learn about, then it feels so much nicer! I am not making sense, so allow me to explain.... I was faced today with having to restore a number of tables from backup tables. The tables use the exact same schema (the backup tables do actually have some additional columns which I wont go into here as it isn't relevant), so a restore would be simple, just move the data out of one table into another; and repeat for all the tables that needed to be restored. So I wrote a script to accomplish the task. I quickly realised to preserve relationships in the tables, I would have to insert the row identities to the tables. S...  
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As the title of this post says, I would like to express my apologies for not updating this site as often as I should have done. Life has kind of grabbed my over the last few months, and took me on the best roller coaster ride of m...  
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It was Kieran's christening this week, and to say the party went down with a bang would be ...  
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It appears that apple did not like my submission. I received this email from them in the early hours of this morning. Dear Mick Walker, Your application, Where I Am 1.0, cannot be posted to the App Store at this time because it does not adhere to the iPhone Human Interface Guidelines as outlined in the iPhone Developer Program License Agreement section 3.3.5. When the device is not connected to a network, Where I Am 1.0 does not load its contents and stays blank.  This be...  
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