"Programming for the iphone" written by Paul on estrip.org

07/06/07 09:37 - 72ºF - ID#39974

Programming for the iphone

This is crazy. I revamped the old email based posting system because (e:jim) and (e:jenks) 's iphones cannot do file uploads in mobile safari. This just blows my mind, it reminds me of my sidekick 1. I used to have the email posting system expressly for that phone. Why no file upload? They could easily just spoof it and allow you to only upload from your photo gallery instead of browsing the file system.

So anyways it gets worse. Not only can you only email photos via email. You can email only one photo per email. Basically, this translated to one picture per mobile entry from the iphone. And to make it even more ridiculous every attachment is named photo.jpg so that when they arrive the new ones were replacing the old ones.

I ended up writing a script that would take the file name and add part of the title after talking with (e:jim) about it. But as he pointed out, although I was able to script around it - what about all the grandmothers saving pictures of there grandkids all named photo.jpg. They will end up just replacing all the old photos.

Who the fucks decision was this. I think they should be fired.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: mobile

07/06/07 02:28 - 66ºF - ID#39942

Send via my cell phone with email

Just testing out the system so that (e:jim) can send blogs from his iPhone.

I believe it works now. (e:jim) just make sure you have it setup in your mobile control panel and use the old instructions.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: food

07/04/07 10:05 - 66ºF - ID#39917

Dinner in the glass castle

The title is a reference to the book of Michael, chapter 1. Michael Visco that is.

First, at Walgreens they have these ridiculous "signature hounds" that people are supposed to want for collecting graduation signatures. Isn't that what year books are for? Imagine having to store a yearbook and a giant signature hound in your memory box.

We had my parents over for dinner on the porch. We would have eaten in the backyard but the weather made that no so possible. Plus its so fun to have other people desire what we are eating.

It is nice to eat with the family.

The organic cherries at the coop were so darn yummy.

They had these cards asking how much money you spent at local business today or something. What the frick are you supposed to write on this? I mean I am all about local business but this is too much.

My mother made the yummiest BLT dip. It was very bacontastic.

We bought some cakes at Dolci on Elmwood. I love that place. One was lemon and one was rum cassata.

And we ate crab legs

I really had so much to say when I started this but decided that none of it was appropriate ;(

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: mobile

07/01/07 05:10 - 65ºF - ID#39877

Mobile Dump

I was cleaning up the file system on my mobile phone and found these on the storage card.

When walking to thursday in the square with (e:eknot) the other week I saw this sign on La Lunas while we were buying Italian sausages (the food) outside. That is a serious amount of regulations.

I found some pics I actually took at Gay Pride in Toronto with my phone. Too bad I accidentally took them in black and white mode.

The food I ate in toronto was so yummy. Something with dried appricots, watercress and chicken in a grand marnier sauce. Yum!

We now only go grocery shopping once a month, its getting ridiculous how much we buy at once.

The roses in the backyard are pretty, they would be much prettier with the Nikon camera.

Here are some leftovers from when (e:matthew) and I went to San Francisco back in March.

I was amazed at how overflowing the park trash was in San Francisco. There are some things that make having a booming population not so great.

When in San Francisco I saw these drips grafittied on a wall. I really like the style.

It is so simple, look at it up close. From further away they look wet.

Here we have (e:matthew) eating shrimp at the San Francisco airport. We splurged figuring it might be our last meal ever.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: buffalo

07/01/07 02:07 - 65ºF - ID#39874

Reduce, reuse, recycle

I want my camera back so bad!! We went to Urban Roots and Buffalo Salvage this afternoon. The Urban Roots garden center place seemed pretty cool, unfortunately we already had most of the kinds of flowers they offered.

After we went to Buffalo ReUse

, a non-profit organization aimed at reusing building material from housing that are being demolished. They are located next to the Washington Market downtown. They have some job opportunities open too

I can't believe how many houses are awaiting demolition in our city.

Organizational Overview
Buffalo ReUse, Inc. is a new not-for-profit organization committed to developing the practice of deconstruction to create a community minded alternative to demolition. In Buffalo, there are estimates that between 10 and 20,000 structures await demolition and the city has tentative plans to demolish 1,000 houses a year indefinitely. Deconstruction, the careful disassembly of a building in the opposite order that it was originally created, is the vehicle for diverting reusable materials from the landfill; providing a source of high quality materials for homeowners; providing meaningful job opportunities; and creating positive changes in the neighborhoods in which we work.

Looks like they are just starting but there is a similar place in Rochester that seems more established

We also went and took a look at the building being demolished on Delaware near Niagara Square that (e:metalpeter) wrote about the other day.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: mobile

06/29/07 11:54 - 67ºF - ID#39854

Jim and the iPhone

I went with (e:jim) to the apple store so we could look at iPhones. He ended up buying one. I am kind of jealous because its a sexy device but it really didn't do what I wanted and I don't need another device for the collection if it can't replace all the other devices. I seriously can't justify another device that doesn't do everything.

1. No instant messenging.

2. No tethering using it as a modem for your laptop on the go.

3. Slow, like really way slow compared to sprint.

4. No terminal, no ssh

5. No streaming radio. I have no interest in having lots of space for mp3s. I don't even have them on my lappy barely because I like the surprise of internet radio and have become accustomed to it.

6. No bluetooth means no GPS, no wireless syncing.

7. No way the battery could outlast the double battery I have on my phone right now and the battery is not easily accessible for switching.

8. No flash or java.

9. No third party apps.

10. There doesn't appear to be a file browse for uploading pictures from your phone to a website. LAME!

Look I found this later on macrumors. The battery is soldered on so you really can't switch it easily.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: mobile

06/29/07 06:13 - 75ºF - ID#39849

Not not iphone

Here I am using a Cisco IP phone but not the iPhone at 6:00PM on Friday, June 29th when really I should be getting my hands on my new shiny iPhone that I am not going to get. (e:jim) we should have gone just for the hype.

My tooth hurts so much. I definitely need to go to the dentist now. It has a giant hole in it. I guess I probably eat too much candy.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: computers

06/27/07 11:02 - 75ºF - ID#39833

Surebert, Second Life and Felly

Had a meeting with Algonquin Studios about purchasing licenses for surebert from Roswell to use in their products. I am very confused how it will all pan out because I developed a ton of it before working at Roswell back into 2004. I hope to at least land some sort of percentage of the profits.

Saw one of my former students, Mike Spencer

who works there.

(e:fellyconnelly) when do you arrive and how do you say your username? God I love this laptop now. It was playing second life, recording this video, running windows and mac, and the net all at the same time.

::Download Flash Video::

I went back into secondlife. I still have a lot of money there. If I cashed it in for American Dollars it would be worth about $450. Thats brings me to over $1000 I would have made from that game. I am so torn between selling the land and money for an iPhone or not.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: computers

06/27/07 09:45 - 81ºF - ID#39824

An Apple a day

It is so crazy to be able to run windows and OS X simultaneously. Notice the start menu and the dock.

I love the macbook although it gets so hot you could fry an eggs on it. Like not just warm, but like never could go on the lap hot. Ironically, I am typing this form the vaio using Suse 10.2 because it is way ore portable and doesn't burn me. The mactop however is great as a desktop replacement.

I am sure having 4GB of RAM makes this way smoother than it would be otherwise. It all runs at totally native speed with shared clipboard, muse, windowing environment, etc.

So as for the iPhone. I am thinking about getting it because it would be cheaper for us to have a family plan with AT&T due to my union discount and then my old phones could work too. The real deal breaker is the speed and coverage. It is definitely a step backwards for me in terms of connectivity.

This is what I am afraid of:

So if you're used to broadband, you won't be using the iPhone for tethering to a laptop, or traditional web surfing, but it will be fine for email and WAP sites via EDGE.

jenks writes at 01:01:21 06/27/07 - Comment #20194: More: (i promise I'll stop soon)

The bigger problem is the AT&T network. In a Consumer Reports study, AT&T's signal ranked either last or second to last in 19 out of 20 major cities. My tests in five states bear this out. If Verizon's slogan is, "Can you hear me now?" AT&T's should be, "I'm losing you." [so what's this crap about 'fewest dropped calls'????]

Then there's the Internet problem. When you're in a Wi-Fi hot spot, going online is fast and satisfying.

But otherwise, you have to use AT&T's ancient EDGE cellular network, which is excruciatingly slow. The New York Times's home page takes 55 seconds to appear; Amazon.com, 100 seconds; Yahoo. two minutes. You almost ache for a dial-up modem. [ouch.]

jenks writes at 12:53:22 06/27/07 - Comment #20193: well, the reviews i've seen are pretty glowing, but this is what kills me:

"Assuming Apple gets around to supporting 3G in the future, you'd ultimately have to buy a new 3G-capable iPhone for improved network performance, not that Apple is ready to announce one". I'm just afraid of shelling out $600 and then needing an upgrade in 6mo.

(then again, since when do I, of the 7 ipods, have a problem giving apple my money?)

then again, i doubt it's any slower than tmobile's internet, which is so cripplingly slow i just basically don't use it.

and the no-third-party-apps. i think the only thing my treo does that the iphone can't is my drug reference program. But I use that SO MUCH, that I will mean I have to go back to carrying two devices- phone and palm.

jenks writes at 12:01:08 06/27/07 - Comment #20192: parallels rocks. I was on my work network the other day via VPN and it was just like being in the hospital.

I just went to an ATT store to ask my million-and-one iphone questions. Unfortunately the girl working there knew less than I did.

I read that there is no sim card, or if there is, you can't take it out, which is a bummer. b/c i was thinking if i switch, and i don't like it, i can just swap the sim into my collection of old phones. They didn't know anything about that . i asked if I could use the iphone plan (which is surprisingly cheap) on my treo... they didn't even know there WAS an iphone plan.

fellyconnelly writes at 11:14:34 06/27/07 - Comment #20186: is it supposed to get that hot? i would think that kind of heat would not exactly be good for electronics...

mk writes at 09:50:03 06/27/07 - Comment #20184: that whole windows mac thing really freaks me out.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: computers

06/25/07 09:08 - 81ºF - ID#39805

A new era begins

So I am now officially part of the mac club again and here are the picture to prove it. Now all I need is to get my camera back and my blog will shine sparkly new.

I spent all of today ironing out some bugs and refactoring code at work to fit some old apps into the new surebert framework. Today we decided on some coding style issues. I was really frustrated at the end of debugging today because it turned out that the bugs were based on a data issue on a database not owned by me.