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Finally, we have a functional build of BM out on the App Store. I have no earthly clue why Drew and I never ran into the odd primary key bug prior to the release of 1.0. Bleh. Download the update and revise your review, por favor.
So people have already started pirating CastCatcher. It’s 3 freaking dollars. :[
We pushed BillMinder 1.0 to Apple a few days back, while it was in review, firmware 2.1 hit. We were using it on our phones but already had our bills setup so it seemed to work well. In reality, adding new bills (well, adding new anything that resulted in a database row being created failed). It ends up that the function sqlite3_last_insert_rowid returned zero instead of the pk for the last inserted row after the first call — bad times. This meant strange things happened (like bills being duplicated or disappearing, etc.).
Our “fix” was simply to select pk from table order by pk desc and use that value. It seems to work well — we put in the change, fixed some other minor usability issues and BillMinder 1.01 is on its way to users. Talk about a headache. The moral of this story is test your software from a clean DB after a new firmware hits.
Update: This does not seem to be an issue w/ iPhone 2.1 but rather an issue that occurs after inserting 3 rows and calling sqlite3_last_insert_rowid 3 times, as far as I can tell
So I had my first week at Good Egg and it was great. Everyone’s passionate about the company and its mission — the whole startup atmosphere is there and I love it. I feel a little overwhelmed because I’m jumping into a new code base and trying to get up to speed and do something useful for them quickly, but I’m sure I’ll get it done. Next week will be equally crazy for me with the day job as I really want to make some quick headway on the API I’m working on.
On top of that, Drew and I have been hard at work on the r7 stuff — CastCatcher 1.0 is now for sale, 1.1 was pushed to Apple for review, and we launched the return7 site today. Many thanks to my pal Tyrus for getting the design together so quickly and on such short notice. I decided to use MooTools to build out the client (as opposed to my dear Appcelerator), mainly because I wanted to learn something new and figured using Appc to do it wouldn’t help that much (with the learning something new part, I mean). I think MooTool is pretty cool — mainly like the fact that animations seem smoother than those of Scriptaculous, but it did take more time to do things than it would have with Appc (maybe part of it was the learning curve). Oh, how I missed the state machine.
Drew and I have an idea for our next app, but we’re not sure where to start — might solicite some help from the community (hint: we need some cartoon fish and aquarium decorations — pngs w/ transparent ). Any takers?
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