Archive for June, 2008

iPhone App Store Now Accepting Applications

I just got an email from the iPhone Developer Program stating that they are now accepting applications for the App Store. Also Beta 8 of the SDK is ready for download. You’ll need to install the iTunes 7.7 pre-release seed in order to install the iPhone OS beta 8 on your devices. iTunes 7.7 can [...]

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iPhone SDK Development Provisioning Profiles Revoked

I got an email from the iPhone Development program stating that Development Provisioning Profiles created before June 9, 2008 are being revoked and will have to be re-created. We’re getting close! Dear Enrolled iPhone Developer, In preparation for the release of iPhone OS 2.0, we will be revoking all iPhone Development Certificates created prior to [...]

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Welcome new baby Emily to the world

7 pounds 5 ounces 19 inches long Share and Enjoy:

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Baby is almost here

I’m at the hospital with my wife to bring our second child into the world. Will post a picture when he/she arrives. Share and Enjoy:

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Apple Fixes iPhone SDK Provisioning Profiles

The release of Beta 7 of the iPhone SDK has resulted in lot of frustrated developers. When downloading the new SDK developers were informated that they would need to re-create device provisioning profiles before they would be able to install application on their development devices. Unfortunately the profiles produced by the Apple Program Portal web [...]

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Apple we have a problem…with the beta 7 SDK

So I downloaded the new beta 7 iPhone SDK that was released today. I updated the development environment and updated the OS on my iPod Touch. That all went very smoothly. The developer web site said that new provisioning profiles would be needed for beta 7. So I created a new profile and downloaded. The [...]

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iPhone SDK Program Portal Distribution Page Updated

Since the beginning of the iPhone SDK beta the Program Portals Distribution page has been empty. With today’s announcments at WWDC and the release of iPhone SDK beta 7 these pages have been populated. The distribution page now has three tabs, Application, App Store and Ad Hoc. The Application tab gives instructions on how to [...]

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iPhone SDK Beta 7 Released

The Apple iPhone Developer web site is now back up with SDK and iPhoneOS beta 7 available for download. The SDK is version 9M2199 and the OS is version 5A331. The OS weighs in at 209MB and the SDK is a mere 1.24GB The readme states that Beta release 7 fixes bugs and adds support [...]

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iPhone 3G

Today at WWDC Apple announced the next generation iPhone called iPhone 3G. It is thinner, has a full black plastic back, solid metal buttons, same display, camera, flush headphone jack and better audio and GPS. The iPhone 3G has better battery life: 300 hour standby battery 10 hours 2G of talk time 5 hours 3G [...]

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iPhone Push Notification Service

It was announced at the WWDC keynote that Apple will address to problem of the iPhone SDK not supporting background processes by providing a Push Notification Service. Apple argues that background processes would have cause battery and performance issues. Their solution is very scalable and only requires a single persistant connection to to the Apple [...]

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