Here’s Mine …
- Check Process
- Pay Bill
- Make Phone Call
- Transport Cargo
- Run Errand
Does this not cover just about everything?
I think I’ve finally decided on my iPhone app approach. I’ve been wanting to develop what I’m calling a “one touch” reminder or alarm app but was frustrated with the lack of background timers. I’ve raised a feature request and have done what I can there.
Now my choices are to simply write the app using foreground timers (forcing users to keep the app running) or use push notifications for the alarms, a proposition I’m afraid might get too expensive in the long run.
What I’ve decided to do is move forward with the UI design and publish a non-push version to test the market, along with my own use of the app. If it turns out to be as useful as I hope I’ll then worry about updating to use push. In the mean time perhaps Apple will loosen up on background processes in some way.
Ever have one of those days where you really just need to work on something that you personally find fun?
Something tells me that this time next year I am going to have to explain to my son why we lie about Santa Claus
1. I’m thinking of using the software available at easyapns.com as the start for my push server. What other recommendations are out there? Has anyone used Erica Sadun’s perl script examples in production?
2. http://easyapns.com simply takes care of pushing notifications it finds in a MySQL table. Does anyone have any sample code or tutorials for accepting some sort of data from an iPhone app (JSON maybe) and dropping it in the table being looked at by easyapns?
3. I have an Apple Dev Id but haven’t yet paid the $99 for the iPhone Dev Program. Is there a way to test push notifications before signing up for this program and paying the fee? It appears I have to generate the appropriate provisioning certificates to test with any of Apple’s servers. Is there a way to run my push server locally and “fake out” the Apple server side while testing my app?
4. And finally, does anyone have recommendations on a web hosting provider for use with APNS? My web host doesn’t support cron jobs so I have to switch and it occurred to me that folks might have experience with the reliability of using cron on some hosting providers. Of course I’m looking for the cheapest and best performing option possible :)
playing with the tumblr app for iPhone … just elimanted another app idea. Tumblr’s queuing plus Twitter integration means more contolled timing of Frank spam for you :)
I wonder if persistent GPS will be the “prenuptial agreement” of the next decade … “But honey, why would you mind me knowing where you are at all times?”
Intelligence is the ability to predict the future
— Ray Kurzweil
wondering if it’s possible to get Xbox Live data in the form of a feed … might be neat to “socialize” the family’s Xbox activity #xbox
finally got the Apple TV and the new Xbox 360 both working in the living room on a network switch … had to do some port forwarding but all is finally well
wondering what tumblr posts look like when they hit twitter … looking at tumblr as a tweet queuing mechanism
playing around with my web content and life-streaming activities … I need to draw a flow chart
