On the Remake
I have just finished watching the Norwegian film Troll Hunter. There’s talk of a Hollywood remake and there has been a fray of disapproval by some people on those ever-so important message boards.
There’s almost a common consensus that remakes shouldn’t be made or that remaking something is some how lacking in creativity or originality. I’d beg to differ.
Stories have always been retold and embellished, reworked and tailored to their audiences. No matter what medium, stories have been rebooted, remade and been turn on their head.
How many times have the plays of Shakespeare been remade, in different languages, time periods and locations? How many times has the last Son of Krypton been sent from his dying home-world to Smallville Kansas?
The re-imagined, rebooted, gender-swapped-Starbuck Battlestar Galactica was amazing!
Mr Steven Moffat’s new take on the classic Sherlock’s are spectacular and dare I say Guy Ritchie’s adaptation is pleasantly refreshing and enjoyable also.
Stories, no matter what medium, wether it be oral tradition, the written word, a play, a movie, a tv-show or comic book shouldn’t be set in stone. The specific details aren’t necessarily what makes a story great. For example, it doesn’t matter if Peter Parker got bitten by a radioactive spider or a GM one, it’s how the narrative shows how he becomes Spider-man that gives it it’s appeal.
Remakes aren’t inherently bad. Original material isn’t always great. Pieces of work should be judged on the actual work itself and not pre-judged by a fondness of a particular incarnation or narrative, especially when the work hasn’t been made yet.
You can like both the original and the remake, it’s ok, the original won’t be offended.
Date.fm in Chinese, French & Spanish!
Date.fm now includes language localizations for Chinese (simplified), French and Spanish! So if you have your iPhone set to one of these languages, Date.fm will automatically display the app’s text in your language. If you have Date.fm installed, be sure to update to the latest version.
Our user base is growing quickly, be sure to tell your friends. We have quite a few cool new things in the works, so watch this space for more news!
Date.fm is Featured on the App Store Social Networking Front Page for iPhone!
We’ve just pushed an update for Date.fm v1.0.2, and we’re currently featured in the large image “new” space at the top of App Store Social Networking Front Page for iPhone! To see it, open iTunes then click on ‘Social Networking’ under the App Store tab.
Our user base is growing nicely each day!
Click Here to Download Date.fm in the App Store
Of course building an iPhone app and API aren’t free. They’re complicated projects, and require some very specific skills sets. Here are some explanations of how we’re making Date.fm happen without initial investments or capital.
Costs
We do have one very critical expense, and that is…
Click here to watch a video to see how it works
When designing Date.fm, we spent a lot of time weeding out bad ideas and planning for potential pitfalls. What things might go wrong, and how can we prevent them? We figured out at what we wanted to do, and began planning to make sure…
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We’ve been thinking about online dating services. And honestly, just saying it sounds embarrassing and boring, and it shouldn’t be. I don’t think most people like online dating, and for good reason: it’s an odd and unnatural process,…
Ruby on Rails Training in Leeds, Yorkshire
From Wednesday 26th October to Friday 28th October I’ll be teaching the Ruby on Rails Foundations course at the NTI Leeds.
In this 3 day course I cover how to build and deploy a fully tested web app written in Ruby on Rails® in the latest stable version of Rails; Rails 3.
Not only will you take away with you a deeper understanding of Ruby on Rails but you’ll also take away tools and techniques needed to enhance your development life even on non-Rails projects.
This course takes you from the fundamentals to using Rails in a variety of professional environments.
Delegates will be introduced to the Cucumber testing framework.
The course’s normal price is £700, but for businesses in Yorkshire and the Humber you can apply for 50% funding as part of the Yorkshire Forward and European Social Fund. 3 days of training for £350! Bargain!
But the funding ends at the end of November, so this will be the only opportunity to get the course for £350, so make haste and book here: http://www.ntileeds.co.uk/course/ruby-and-rails-i-foundations/
Show Notes
In our Ruby developer career there may come a time when we have to deploy our app with other versions of Ruby. We may also take a fancy to implementations such as MacRuby, and want to try them out. However, installing many different versions of Ruby on…
Video Posted: What I’ve Learned Developing for iOS
Skills Matter posted the video of last nights talk. Check it out!
How to Use Homebrew
We’ve just launched another free screencast on Screencasts.org.
Homebrew is a UNIX package manager for OS X that’s fast and safe to use. It doesn’t use sudo to install packages thus any package installed doesn’t affect any of your System files.
Check it out now - How to Use Homebrew.
