With all the heck about Apple blocking and removing applications from the App Store there clearly are some things they don’t have a problem with:
In all the clauses of the App Store there has to be one banning mass-application-submission, doesn’t it?
Oh by the way: those “SpeedDate” apps at the moment fill about the first three pages if you sort by date so there are about 60 of them…
Some things just can’t be clear enough. Maybe that’s why Apple’s iTunes lists the current category in the App Store not only once or twice but under every single application tile:
Well… it might be convenient that apps in a certain category are all in that certain category. Just to make sure you know that :-)
By that reason those pages in the App Store containt the name of the category about 60+1 times. I call that: wasted space!
Yesterday there appeared a screenshot containig a nice localization problem in fscklog:
Christian in iTunes 9 - fscklog.com
So what’s the problem: the user who submitted this screenshot is named “Christian” – you’ll see the consequences.
Another cool thing that happened to me:
iTunes 9 Deutschrock-Mix
“Franz Ferdinand” in my “Deutsch-Rock-Mix”? Well, as well as two Rogers don’t make a right – two German names don’t make it German music.
By the way: Genius mixes is really awesome!
After following today’s WWDC 2009 Keynote held by Phil Schiller and more Apple of course had to switch the new versions of their site online. See some screenshots appearing on my side, (both Firefox and Safari involved ;-) ). Of course they’re all property of Apple Inc. (unfortunately, in this quality)… in my company we would say “there was a trainee on the website!”
You get the idea that it’s none of Apple’s business switching sites online every day (in contrast to my company ;-) )
As a developer I’m very often on the hunt for every last bit of performance – trying to optimize every single function of my program.
In the past weeks I’ve been thinking of, designing and developing on a new plugin for the growing framework Grails. It will be called GInstruments and it aims to provide some useful clues for Grails developers who want to know how their application is performing.
The plugin uses Hyperic’s (now SpringSource) SIGAR (System Information Gatherer And Reporter) to report vital system information such as CPU usage or memory comsumption overall or for the current process.
The first release (0.1) is only going to be a snapshot of my first ideas, hence I’ll not release it to the official Grails plugin repositories. It will show you some information about your system like name, version, vendor or architecture, the current CPU and memory consumption. Especially for your current process (which will be the relevant information to know). Take a look at this:
First draft of GInstruments 0.1
All these features are subject to change (I first wanted to know whether there could be a future for this). Possible features for the future may include
I’m open to all kinds feature requests but please bear in mind that I’m only doing this in my spare time, after work, school whatsoever ;-)
At last let me point you to a link (for the non-Apple-developers) to how Apple’s Instruments-app looks like. I think it has some other cool possibilities.
At the moment I’m also waiting for some response from the guys from Hyperic. I really want to license the plugin under the terms of the Apache License (the license Grails uses and many other plugins) – SIGAR is GPL-only at the moment.
Do you think this could be a useful plugin for the Grails infrastructure? What’s your opinion.