A mate and I recently teamed up in our spare time to produce an iPhone app aimed at Socceroos fans. (For those who don't follow the world game, Socceroos are the Australian National Football [Soccer] team.) We built exactly the type of app that we wanted to use ourselves, focussing on quality and attention to detail, unlike many of the other apps that have been pushed out lately in time for the World Cup. Our app is called Roosfan and is available in the App Store.

Over on my tech blog I posted details about a feature in the latest version of River Level: iOS 4 Background Task Completion.

On my Python blog I share my joy over discovering a PYPI mirror just when I needed to deploy some Python based software while the main PYPI site was down.

I've been busy at Locayta lately preparing some Locayta Search Mobile demo apps. We have released the first of these, Locayta Notes, a free iPad/iPhone note taking app. Even better, we've released the source code too! I've written about the Locayta Notes release here and you can get Locayta Notes from the App Store.

Hi, my name is Chris Miles and I'm an Angry Birds addict :-)

100% completion of Angry Birds Halloween Edition on iPhone 4. Final score was 4,013,950 which, at the time of completion, gave me the 17th highest score worldwide! Now to return to my regularly scheduled life...