iPhone OS 2.0 Quirks

Jul 28 2008 Published by jqs under Blog

Okay, maybe some of these are more annoyances than quirks:

 

  • Springboard Application Placement Upon Update
This one gets me every time an application has an update. If I’ve gone through the trouble of taking an application (that I paid for) and drag it across six pages of apps so that it can reside in the #1 spot on my iPhone, why when upgrading does it jump to the end of the list again? I can understand that new apps get chucked to the end of the list, but couldn’t the OS merely turn off the old version (I assume it isn’t deleted until the new one gets downloaded, but I’m not betting the farm on it.), move it automagically somewhere and setup the new ‘downloading’ app in the spot the previous version occupied?
And while we’re talking about upgrading apps, why does the App Store need to quit to the Springboard every time I tell it to download a new app? Can I queue these things and have them go all at once? I mean you can get all of the updates to installed apps in batch mode right?
  • Developer Hardware
So I’m a real honest to goodness, paid up, friend of Steve, iPhone developer. Full access to OS 2.1Beta… I haven’t produced anything yet as I’m too scared of the warning on the iPhone DEV site which states, that by installing the Beta iPhone software I may lock my iPhone permanently into developer hardware and it can’t be used as a phone again! What what what?
Are you kidding me? So if I really wanted to produce an iPhone app and wanted to use an iPhone, I need two of them? With Rogers requiring a contract to go along with every iPhone, perhaps my 1st gen iPhone becomes a developer box and a new one becomes my phone.
Personally I’m holding out that my new job picks up an iPhone 3G for me…

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iPhone Post

Jul 22 2008 Published by jqs under Blog

Automattic released it’s iPhone blogging tool for Wordpress.

This is my first attempt to post using it and I’ll keep my judgement to myself until later.

Of note however, it seems that there isn’t anyway to upload a photo from my phone to the blog. (At least I haven’t really looked all that hard yet..)

Edit: Found the photos uploader… Can’t change the size or the thumbnail type but not bad for a 1.0 release. Also they’ve released the source code!

photo

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Welcome to the New Blog…

Apr 15 2008 Published by jqs under Blog

A lot has happened since I put this blog on hiatus a couple of years ago. I’ve changed positions at my place of work, I’ve completed a bunch of interesting projects, my wife and I have welcomed our first child into our lives and I’ve been given my freedom!

That’s right, I’m a free agent at the moment and am in the process of scouting out my next opportunity. Until that time comes, I’ll keep everyone updated as to my status here.

In addition, now that I’ve got a little free time on my hands, it’s back to the developmental grindstone. I’ve not had opportunity in the last few years to get anything out of me that wasn’t tied to my employer of record and I’m near to burst with ideas. This website will become home to all of them.

Most notably I’ve become a WordPress fiend and have a bunch of plug-ins I’m writing as we speak. I’ve joined Facebook and have more than a few ideas for applications for their platform. I’ve made a few improvements to my template class now known as tmpl and will be bringing those online shortly. And lastly, but not least(ly), I’ve an iPhone and am geared up to write a few apps for it as well.

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