28
Mar 08
After about 2 days trying to follow the wiki on Google Code iphone-dev with no success at all, I decided to finally look around and see if someone had succeeded in writing a proper how-to to install the unofficial SDK for jailbroken iPhone.
That’s right, Apple, I’m not content with the official one, especially for the proof of concept applications we’re trying to demo.
a search reported this amazing step-by-step tutorial on Cocoa Machine on installing the toolchain (I skipped some steps, as parts were already successfully installed via the wiki on iphone-dev), and finished compiling/installing the whole.
what’s really great about this guide, is that the author patched the XCode templates as well, and is giving instructions on how to modify the Makefile for code downloaded from code.google.com or others.
everything explained.
it’s now time for me to get to it.
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28
Mar 08
Having had the chance to appreciate this man’s writing in his book “the nudist on the late shift” (which I recommend to every geek around),
I was reading through his website in search of trivia and other funnies.
I stubled upon the Apology Engine.
wonderful.
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14
Mar 08
we finally moved out of Plesk :)
thanks rick
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10
Mar 08
This morning I went checking my Flickr recent activity and found a comment.
unbelievable.
and the person’s account pictures are even creepier
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08
Mar 08
Interesting quick post by Daron Bauman on Kottke,
about the difficulty of the english language
Four words that prove how difficult the English language is: lose, loose, chose, choose.
Update: Doug points out more: bough, cough, dough, rough, through.
being a non native english speaking person (I’m italian and we’re known as not the best english speakers on the globe),
I found myself facing one of the words that I think belongs to the longest list of this kind.
the word is “steak”, and in amsterdam there’s plenty of “steak houses”.
we italians end up asking for something that is closer to “stick” than “steak”.
we tend to pronounce the “ea” group as it is in the word “weak”.
this list of words is my favorite as it takes to our concerns
- stake > OK
- skate > OK
- wake > OK
- weak > OK
- break > can live with it but…
- steak > ???
damn you, english language!
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07
Mar 08
Why hasn’t anyone asked about this?
- You can test your application on an iPhone/iPod Touch through the dock cable.
- Remote debug and such
- performance tuning
- use the iPhone/iPod Touch as a real platform for your app (no Emulators etc).
can you “leave” the app on the device and run it on the go?
I think for a developer this is very important.
You can do it on Symbian with developer certificates tied to your IMEI, and you can do it with J2ME.
IS IT GOING TO BE POSSIBLE ON THE IPHONE???
[update]: it is possible.
thank you saver but we knew it already :)
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04
Mar 08
If you were patient enough and didn’t listen to the hype of
- 3.9 is the official Ziphone BootLoader
- 3.9 is the future
- we really really really need LocateMe function to work
and such, you can finally enjoy a safe iPhone BL downgrade to a 3.9FakeBlank (because it contains a few blanked out bytes 0xFF that allow for some really geeky magic).
I think this is just great news.
I’m going to downgrade later today and feel safer.
patience is golden ;)
on Hackint0sh
UPDATE:
I’ve successfully run my iPhone through a new automating app that does all is needed automatically.
Thread on Hackint0sh
this process worked beautifully and painlessly for me.
now I have BL 3.6fakeblank, FW 1.1.4, BB 04.04.05_G, but can get back to the original BL 4.6 when I want.
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