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Marketing Music

Britons still buying music offline

While the story shared by my colleague Dan Calladine talks about the rapid growth in digital music sales, I am left wondering how the remainder is sold. The only thought that comes to my mind is CDs. CDs? REALLY?

Digital Stats: Digital sales account for 26% of all UK album sales.

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Computing General Web Development

Flash vs. HTML5: When clients ask you to take sides in a holy war

Recently, a client asked me and my colleagues for a point of view on whether they should develop a profoundly animated website in Flash or go with HTML5. I love HTML5. I worked in Flash in the bad old days and was not a fan. I love HTML5. I even have the sticker on my laptop.

This is naturally prep for a big but.
It comes in the form of the list we shared with our client.
Look at it as a conversation starter. Be nice.

 

  • SEO – Flash and HTML5 are both not ideal for SEO (Canvas and SVG are not textual and hence indexable) 
  • Performance depends on what we need to achieve; complex HTML5 is as slow as complex Flash
  • Creative Liberty – Flash can accomplish more, in less time than HTML5
  • Build time – Flash development, on more browsers, will require less time *for the same thing* – assuming a lot of animation and interactivity
  • Browser Compatibility – HTML5 pretty much cannot work on browsers older than 2 years; Flash still works on the older Internet Explorer browsers that too many people still use. And we have to care about them.

This list is VERY MUCH for the present time. Things change fast and HTML5 is gaining a foothold faster than Flash is losing it. 

Still, right now, it's what I believe. Flash had to be the way to go. Sounds apologetic, no?

OH – and we ARE building an HTML5 mobile + tablet version of the same site. Mobile web vs. native apps – now that's a holy war I do take sides on.

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ios iphone Mac OS X

Xcode: “No match for certificate/private key” error and resolution

An app we were building for the iPad was recently approved by the client. Being a more capable organization, the client wanted us to build the app for them using their Apple developer and app store credentials for submission. To do that they sent us the three necessary files:

  • Public Key (Distribution)
  • Private Key (Distribution)
  • Mobile Provisioning Profile (Distribution > AppStore)

I also modified the app's bundle identifier to reflect the identifier specified by the client.

I merrily added the keys and certificate to the OS X key chain. Yet Xcode was unable to build using these updated credentials. The error that was reported was:
"Profile does not match any valid certificate/private key pair in the default keychain"

After digging around I pinged my friend Glenn Martin from Intrepid Development to see if he knew what was wrong. Glenn actually knew what went wrong: apparently OS X 10.6.8 imports keys to the System key chain instead of the Login key chain. Xcode only looks at the Login key chain. All the was necessary to fix the issue was to drag and drop the key in the Keychain Access application from the System key chain to the Login one. Mindless fix to a truly frustrating problem.

Hope it helps you.

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