The PostgreSQL switch for Trac which Peter mentioned in the last blog post didn’t work out well; resource consumption drove the server to its knees. We’re working on a solution which doesn’t require going back to SQLite with its database-locking problems. Thanks for your patience.

Chris is currently converting our Trac to a different database engine, in order to make it nice and fast and hopefully more robust too. It will be down in the meantime. It will be up when he is done.

UPDATE 03:03 PST: It’s back up!

Yesterday, Apple released potentially one of the most interesting devices in computing history. The combination of mobility, relatively good power, rich OSX APIs, and multiple types of connectivity and sensors (phone, bluetooth, wifi, proximity, location, visual, audio, and orientation) could result in some truly spectacular new classes of applications. Unfortunately, it appears that they’re making their most classic blunder once again: locking out third parties. We have the opportunity to make ourselves heard, and request that Apple open the iPhone to third party developers. The only avenue of communication Apple leaves open to developers is Radar, their bug tracking system.

Jonathan ‘Wolf’ Rentzch has filed an initial bug report on the topic, which he describes here. I strongly suggest that anyone interested in open application development on the iPhone (or being able to use third party applications on the iPhone) follow his lead and file additional requests at bugreport.apple.com (Please be polite though; ticket techs are people too!).

A sample bug report (filed by our own Augie Fackler) is below:

Summary:
You can’t do any development for the iPhone.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Write a cool app
2. Try to compile for iPhone

Expected Results:
A binary that should work in the spiffy iPhone.

Actual Results:
No way to compile for the iPhone exists, so no binary is produced

Regression:
None known.

Notes:
This is the same as Rentzsch’s bug rdar://problem/4917169 to make your life easier when you flag this as a duplicate.

Trac will be going down in a few minutes for some maintenance, in order to try to make it not so.. ya.

In the meantime, this video is cool. It has some very mild cursing in it, so if you don’t like that kind of thing don’t watch it.

First I’d like to say “Hi”, since I just got blogging access here (thanks The_Tick!). I was one of the SoC developer on the Adium project, and I’ll probably be one again this year 🙂

Anyways, a small fruit company from a (to me) foreign country announced that they’d like to have a short keynote tomorrow Tuesday at 9am PST (that’s UTC-8) to 11am on the MacWorld San Fransisco 2007. Since they no longer supply a live stream, some nice folks agreed to demonstrate their typing abilities by summarizing what is said and shown live from the conference.
If you’d like to make use of this service, you can join us via your favorite IRC client on #mwsf2007 on freenode!

For those of you who may be interested, I’m starting a weekly challenge on my personal blog. Click here for more information.