Tag: xcake

XCake.org is now back up.

Comment spam is a pain in the butt – to the point that XCake.org ended up with over eight thousand lines of spammer links and crap because I allowed open comments. This overhead caused a huge load on my MySQL server and it affected performance elsewhere so, in the end, it had to go and … Continue reading “XCake.org is now back up.”

Comment spam is a pain in the butt – to the point that XCake.org ended up with over eight thousand lines of spammer links and crap because I allowed open comments. This overhead caused a huge load on my MySQL server and it affected performance elsewhere so, in the end, it had to go and for just under a month, xcake.org has been sitting idle, dead.

Until tonight.

Tonight I trimmed the Comment spam and removed every single comment. I also required a user to be logged in before they can comment. Smart, huh?

So what is XCake?

Well, I’ve covered it before so go have a look.

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Someone must stop them…

2008 is beginning to look like the year of the grassroots gathering. Belfast Open Coffee Club (BOCC) has been growing, we just had BarCampBelfast 08 and NiMUG have been having monthly meetings as well. On top of that we’re promised some sort of TechLudd-type meeting towards the end of the year and the XCake people … Continue reading “Someone must stop them…”

2008 is beginning to look like the year of the grassroots gathering.

Belfast Open Coffee Club (BOCC) has been growing, we just had BarCampBelfast 08 and NiMUG have been having monthly meetings as well. On top of that we’re promised some sort of TechLudd-type meeting towards the end of the year and the XCake people will have a meeting by the end of the summer. And lastly, BLUG have woken up.

With all these geeks meeting and greeting, they’re going to gain social skills!

They must be stopped!

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Developer Technical Support

This weekend I was ‘called out’ by Michael B. “Wave” Johnson who has a list of credentials as long as your arm (not least that he works at Pixar and wil Shipley think he’s awesome) because I made a somewhat snippy comment about Apple’s engagement with developers. Michael helped me realise that every year I’ve … Continue reading “Developer Technical Support”

This weekend I was ‘called out’ by Michael B. “Wave” Johnson who has a list of credentials as long as your arm (not least that he works at Pixar and wil Shipley think he’s awesome) because I made a somewhat snippy comment about Apple’s engagement with developers. Michael helped me realise that every year I’ve been a Select Developer with Apple’s Developer Connection, I had had 3 Developer Technical Support incidents and I realised that I’ve never used them. I have now resolved to use one up this week.

Michael was right to call me out on this – I was being snippy. Apple provides plenty of samples code and tutorials – they just may not be all pitched at my level and I need to do a good bit more work before I can really complain about the level of support. The DTS engineers are not there to hold my hand but rather to give me a leg up. That’s an important semantic difference.

My frustration is mostly because the iPhone SDK is still in Beta and therefore covered under NDA. I’d love to pick the brains of a couple of iPhone savvy individuals and this is why I’m keen on helping out with XCake.

What is XCake?

XCake is a group that seems to have grown out of the Belfast Open Coffee Club. It happens that there are quite a few people in BOCC who are keen on developing software for the Mac, for the iPhone or just using a Mac to do it. These people also like cake. Sometimes with chocolate. Sometimes with icing. The name was coined by John Kennedy and we’re going to work to get a wiki up and running on that domain. The idea is to have somewhere where we can ask questions, get guidance and, most importantly, not break our NDAs. Watch this space.

I’m much happier being pro-active about resolving my issues.

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