Don't know how we missed this one, but the Paeds ED application we developed for iED was featured on BBC Look North back in February. Take a look.

A little bit of late news: religion specific builds of the mobiD8 application have been made available for Hindu, Sikh and Muslim users. These can be found in the app store by searching for hinduD8, sikhD8 and muslimD8. Also, we're going to have a major piece of news about an application we are developing for a UK celebrity within the next week - watch this space!

While working with MKMapView, I've been getting an NSInvalidArgumentException from the MKMapView on the setRegion: selector to zoom in on the current location of the user. What this seems to have a problem with for me is when I'm trying to set the initial zoom on the map and intermittently this throws the following exception:

Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInvalidArgumentException', reason: 'Invalid Region '

Womenspire has been released for both the iPhone and Android. You can find these apps on their respective stores by searching for 'womenspire' in both stores.

Just another quick screen shot of progress with the iPad port of Pay At The Pump

Just passing on a little status update on the iPad version of Pay At The Pump:

To coincide with the announcement from Apple regarding the iPad, Abstractec are pleased to announce that we will be offering iPad development services starting soon. Both bespoke development and porting of iPhone and iPod touch applications to the iPad will be available. Please contact us for more details. Abstractec provide development services for iPhone, Android and Blackberry devices as well as providing services for web and backend platforms. We are based in the United Kingdom and we keep all our development within the United Kingdom.

Abstractec Ltd. is pleased to announce that '48hrsin OXFORD' is now available from the App Store. The application was developed for a client who wanted a framework to create a number of similar applications for a number of cities around the world, so expect a number of applications in a similar vein to this one to appear over the next few days for these different cities.

We are exceptionally excited to announce that we are working with Welsh charity Chwarae Teg in the creation of applications for both the iPhone and Android platforms to support their Agile Nation project. This project is being undertaken in partnership with Working Word PR agency based in Cardiff. More details soon!

One thing I've found particularly useful recently is the static code analyser introduced in XCode 3.2. One thing I missed when making the transition from Java was static code analysis and the wealth of tools available (PMD and FindBugs being two frequently used examples) to very quickly deflate your ego when it comes to the quality of your code.