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The Boston PDA User Group |
meets 2nd and 4th Tuesday of every month @ MIT 3-133 |
I knew Android fragmentation was bad, but I didn't know it was this bad. Yikes.
This looks great. Looks like something we should demonstrate at a future meeting…
We didn’t have the App Cloud demo; Vlad and company were no-shows. I may end up doing the demo myself at the November developers meeting.
We’ll be in a different room; someone scheduled 3-133 every Tuesday until December. I’ll follow up with MIT to get a new room; stay tuned.
The next users meeting in November 8; Jim Travis agreed to demonstrate the Galaxy Tab 8.9 and maybe some other Android goodies.
Yes, we’ll have the developers meeting on November 22, just before the Thanksgiving holiday. Anyone who can is welcome to come.
Kris covered lots of stuff regarding iOS 5 development.
Some decisions were made tonight:
LLVM is now the only compiler in Xcode 4.2—no more GCC.
Xcode 4.2 was released in the slew of Apple updates last week. It’s available for both Lion and Snow Leopard.
You can still get GCC if that’s how you roll or if you want GCC and LLVM without Xcode.
If there are other Unix tools you need, stop reading right now and install Homebrew, the best package manager for Mac OS X.
Marco Arment’s (of Tumblr and Instapaper fame) Cleaning… blog post, where he describes the change in behavior of iOS 5 that affects apps that previously were able to store data that wasn’t backed up (via iTunes or iCloud) but also wasn’t removed from a device unless the app itself was removed.
Under iOS 5, such data could be removed (“cleaning”) once a device reached a certain threshhold of data without the user’s knowledge. Not good.
Marco covered the issue on his Build and Analyze podcast too.
Much like an army making an amphibious landing, hoardes of new 4S devices ordered a week ago seems to be arriving today on american shores.
How do I know that?
When my phone arrived early this afternoon via UPS the driver smirked "Wow, here's your new iPhone!" as I signed, and he further told me that there were more than 1600 out for delivery on his route alone today!
Extrapolating that across the country ... there are a lot of phones getting activated today.
Further evidence: Note the bipolar error message that appeared when I tried to activate (Warned it could take "as long as 3 minutes!").
So, should I wait to receive an email, or put another spin on the bottle?
Your guess is as good as mine!
It's nice to be popular.
The downside of this is when you are Apple, and millions of iOS and OS X users try to simultaneously download upgrades of iOS 5 for their iPhone/iPad/iPod touch devices.
There are multiple reports this evening of disgruntled upgraders receiving errors, and unable to complete their upgrades.
Apple's data center seems to be in full meltdown mode-- not quite to the level of the current Blackberry outage, and a better problem to have of the two as a business-- but for those of us out online looking for new software ... it's not good (I expect the spirit of Steve Jobs to be roaming the halls of Apple IT tonight very unhappy.)
It fails this way-- you connect your 'i' device to iTunes, and recieve a notification that there is a new version of iOS available '5.0'.
You are taken through a lenghty download/backup process, and when that is complete (after thirty minutes to an hour) you get a message that 'an internal error occurred' and to 'try again'.
This seems to be repeating (at least it did for me!) multiple times.
What is happening is at the key moment when your iOS device has completed its backup to your local machine, it fails to reach the Apple update server somewhere out in the cloud-- because they're currently swamped!
At this point, you have two choices:
(Follow these instructions very carefully, you have been warned)
Note, this is going to take a while ... so don't expect to skate out the door with iOS 5 in a few minutes.
If you're the least bit scared by the immensity of all the stuff listed below.... PLAN A is still there waiting for you... but if you are moderately brave soul.. go for it.
Once this is done. You'll have a brand spanking new, upgraded iOS 5 device to show off to all your friends.
That was easy (wasn't it?)
On Tuesday September 27th at 7pm, MIT room 3-133, the BOSPDAUG Developer's Group presents a discussion of general and unexpected PDA topics. The meeting is free, and open to all users of handheld and PDA technology.
Tonight's guest speaker will be Adam Weiss of AppDemoVideos.com, a service that offers ultra-high-quality videos for iPad application demos. These videos use a new technique that displays an app on a CG-rendered iPad while retaining the realism of a real human hand interacting with the device.
We'll also continue to discuss our upcoming group developed app.
On top of all of this-- of course, as always, there is also a lot happening in the mobile development space-- mergers and acquisitions, patent trolling, new hardware, and many other items of interest to developers of all platforms, and we encourage you to join us.
BOSPDAUG Online meeting starting NOW ! (7:07PM 9/13/2011)
https://www3.gotomeeting.com/join/731354926
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The Boston PDA User's Group is an organization made up of those who choose to walk freely among us with handheld, palmtop and wireless computers. Formed in 1992, its goal is to connect with the newest and coolest mobile computer technology. BOSPDAUG meets on the second Tuesday evening of each month at MIT in Cambridge MA in MIT room 3-133 at 7pm, and welcomes users of all PDA platforms for lively discussions of handheld and PDA technologies.
