July 2010
7 posts
PlainText beta 3 is ready.
This release is more polished, and I hope should be useable for real world work. Sync has been improved so that it’s faster gives you a better indication of what is happening durring the sync process.
There are thre known issues:
On iPad if you create a new folder the current files title begins editing instead of the new folders. To finish creating the folder tap in it’s title...
PlainText update
Typing fast, Kai’s been asleep for about 20 minutes and 40 seems to be the limit.
Well it’s not done yet. My old estimations were always off by a factor of three. But that was with a full five day work week. Now I’m watching kids for about half the week, and it seems that my time estimations are even worse then normal.
I Posted the beta a while back. Generally it was well...
Not work related
…but maybe gives an insite into the mental state of Hog Bay’s programmer. Here is an excerpt of an email that Laurel (my wife) just sent:
They went out to eat at a Japanese restaurant in our absence, and Jesse related the following story to me…
Jaeda had apple juice, and when she ran out, wanted some more. Jesse said, “OK, when the waitress comes back, I’ll...
On vacation
I’ll be away for the next week and a bit.
This vacation we are staying close to home (rented cabin on pond about an hour away) so I might check in from time to time, but basically I’ll be out. I’d been pushing to get PlainText sent to app store before this, but the TaskPaper for iOS crash on launch issues put an end to that idea. I did just get a beta out though, so at least a...
PlainText & TaskPaper betas
I’ve just send out a beta for PlainText and for TaskPaper.
The TaskPaper beta is borning, but important. I’m hopeful that it will fix that crash on startup bug that many people are experiencing. If you’ve experienced that bug, please try the beta and see if this version fixes it.
The PlainText beta is more fun. If you can (if you are an iPhone developer I think you can self...
WriteRoom for iPhone status
WriteRoom for iPhone was my first real app in the app store. The first release was mostly a learning project. Subsequent releases added unique and useful features such as full screen mode and syncing.
But over the last year I’ve neglected it, and new bugs keep popping up as the iPhone OS gets updated. The end result is a mediocre app with a number of 1 star reviews. A good summary might be:
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