DRAFT: Bospdaug developers group meeting notes
App Cloud
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.
Upcoming meetings
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.
iOS 5 for developers
Kris covered lots of stuff regarding iOS 5 development.
The Bospdaug app
Some decisions were made tonight:
- we’re going to develop out in the open on GitHub. If you want to participate, get a GitHub account.
- we’re going to use one of the BSD licenses
- Al made a repository for the project to kick things off
- Check out Pro Git to get up to speed on Git and various workflows.
Meeting links
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.
