Comments for Mark Staples

Comment on Heritage Lager by Mark

Mark — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 22:12:36 +0000

Bottled a few days ago at final specific gravity around 1.018, so ABV less than 4%. Higher FG than I was expecting, but I think fermentation had safely stopped. I had racked to a secondary a few days before which roused the yeast a little on whatever sugars remained.

Comment on Congratulations Marek and Innoboard Team! by Mark

Mark — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 04:32:31 +0000

Was called “Holodeck”, then “Innoboard” – now called “IdeaWall”…

Comment on I was an Apple Mac kid by Mark

Mark — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 01:46:45 +0000

In reply to Michael Norrish. Maybe Steve did have some partial change-of-heart. Guy Kawasaki says (point 7) that initially for the iPhone, "Apps, Steve decreed, were a bad thing because you never know what they could be doing to your phone.". Guy says Steve changed his mind on that. But i think that's the baseline Apple attitude - protect the integrity of the platform by closely controlling what developers can do.

Comment on I was an Apple Mac kid by Mark

Mark — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 10:17:43 +0000

Apple’s maniacal control of the platform (and the app market) can simplify some technical and marketing problems for developers. But given the pain I’ve heard of from developers who have tried to get their apps past the gate-keepers, I think Apple has succeeded in spite of their treatment of developers!
I think Woz was the real hero behind the Apple II – the Mac is Jobsian.

Comment on I was an Apple Mac kid by Michael Norrish

Michael Norrish — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 09:14:01 +0000

Yet they’ve also done very well out of their iPhone/iPad app store; something that is entirely dependent on the desire of people to write for their platforms. I don’t know if this is despite Apple making life difficult, or whether they’ve managed to have a real change of heart.

Comment on "Traditional" Draught Beer – In a Bottle by Mark

Mark — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 11:54:55 +0000

Bottled today at F.G. 1.008, so abv of about 4.2%.

Comment on "Traditional" Draught Beer – In a Bottle by Mark

Mark — Sun, 15 May 2011 15:49:46 +0000

Racked today at S.G. 1.014. Probably later than I should have, but it’s been cold, so hopefully not too late. The high specific gravity would support that, indicating there may be still sugars left to ferment. (But it didn’t taste that way!)

Comment on Open Source Project Management Tools by Mark

Mark — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 11:20:52 +0000

In reply to Ian. Sorry no. And I haven't used it for a while now... But from a quick look at wikipedia, it looks like they're all stale projects.

Comment on Open Source Project Management Tools by Ian

Ian — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 12:03:43 +0000

Hi
Just wondering if you figured out how to reorder tasks? Cutting and pasting is getting a bit tiresome!!
Thanks
Ian.

Comment on Parsing CSV Files in F# by Mark

Mark — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 20:59:23 +0000

Thanks Tomas! I'm consciously resisting the urge to fix the example in this main blog post, like I did with Doug's changes. Instead, everyone should head on over to stackoverflow to see the up-to-date version.