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Signing Servers Down Again

jiGGaK — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 03:29:54 +0000

It’s 10:00pm EST, Jan. 28th and RIM’s signing servers have been down for the last sixty minutes. This wouldn’t be such an issue if the rest of the BlackBerry development tool suite wasn’t such a steaming pile of crap! Quite literally the only component that works – is the compiler.

The simulator doesn’t sim and the signing tool doesn’t sign. These two issues cause a serious problem.

First the simulator. If you take an OS 4.3.1 simulator and a device also running OS 4.3.1 the two will behave very differently in a few subtle, but important ways. My gripe is localized to the mmapi api (handles audio/video playback). Long story short, the simulator can’t be trusted so we have to debug device/OS idiosyncrasies on the device itself.

But hold on a second. The signing servers aren’t working so I can’t debug on the device in all it’s developer friendly glory with lack of usable debugger and lack of even something as simple as a means to read text written to freaking standard output!

Thank you RIM! Thank you for wasting my valuable time. Thank you for reminding me that no amount of money can justify writing software for this platform any longer.

(10:30, signing servers still not working)

Top 5 Dream Jobs

jiGGaK — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 08:12:26 +0000

So I’m watching High Fidelity and thought I would make a top 5 list of my own.

So top 5 dream jobs:

Robot maker
Prop maker for the movie industry
Google Python developer
Bar owner
BlackBerry software developer

I don’t really want to be a BlackBerry developer but I had a hard time coming up with a 5th so I just put what I am currently doing (check out bbTv).

You know what I’m tired of?

jiGGaK — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 07:10:28 +0000

You know what I’m tired of? I’m sick of people in my MSN list having HUGE nick names. I come from a time when ICQ was the messenger and even then it was a cute little gimmick that people familiar with IRC laughed at. Regardless a nick name should be one to three words long at the most! None of these phrases a half a paragraph long telling a life story. Also, whoever thought of the “Buddy Icon” should be shot.

Well that’s not fair, it can be cool if you use something like Spider Man or Optimus Prime. But these people these days seem to want to use some picture of themselves smiling having fun with all their smiling friends. I don’t want to see you and your friends having fun. I want to see something clever and origional.

So with that said, I’m out. I’m not doing anything interesting these days so I should probably put “something” on this damn blog.