I just spent a half hour on the phone with one of our VC partners sorting out how to get our iPhone application on his phone. Turns out the problem was that he was using Outlook Web, and the provisioning profile e-mailed to him was being corrupted by the web. It’s one of the things [...]
I got the formula wrong. Assume an initial swipe speed of S. Then the speed at time t is: St = S – C * t, where C is a coefficient of friction. This means the position Pt at time T is: Pt = S * t – C * t2 / 2. The total [...]
In response to my earlier comment about Peeps being rejected for using a private API when they in fact rolled their own implementation of CoverFlow is to create my own implementation of CoverFlow. FlowCover is licensed under a BSD-style license; feel free to use the code as a basis for your own iPhone application. There [...]
From Daring Fireball: Apple Wrongly Rejects iPhone App for Use of Private APIs After waiting 33 days to hear from Apple after submitting their app Peeps to the App Store, Plausible Labs found out the app had been rejected. … The problem? According to developer Landon Fuller, they didn’t use any private APIs — they [...]
With the 2.0 release of the SDK Apple promised to provide some sort of notification mechanism so that third part applications could be notified of incoming messages and potentially even handle those messages. Unfortunately Apple has failed to provide such an SDK, and I think the reason has to do with background processing: Apple doesn’t [...]
Ideally our society organizes itself around the principles of a meritocracy: we award the “winners” in our society, where by “winning” we mean that in the competition of a fair and equal capitalist market, those who are the best and brightest percolate to the top. Of course this is the ideal. But in such a [...]
They’re not working. When I point the web browser to localhost/~me, I get a 403 error: forbidden. Chasing down the configuration files, it turns out: (1) The httpd.conf file controlling Apache is located in /etc/apache2. (2) It uses mod_userdir in order to map the Sites folder in my home directory to the web browser. (3) [...]
Fourteen copies. I sold 14 copies in the first day; 13 in the U.S. and 1 in Mexico. I’m not surprised. There are a few things working to my disadvantage: first, I’m not an artist or a sales person; I’m a programmer. If I were to make a serious living at this, I’d get a [...]
Invasion Defense feedback thus far: (1) My brother wants to hear audio of the people screaming as they die a fiery death when a city gets blasted. He also wants to watch martians walk around when the lander lands, blasting cities from the ground. (2) Things I forgot to mention in the instructions which I [...]
I’ve heard that it takes about two weeks–and over Christmas it could take up to three weeks–for your application to be cleared by the Apple reviewers and posted to the Apple Store. Perhaps its because Invasion Defense is a simple game. Perhaps its because I’m not connecting to a remote network (high scores are your [...]