Retrospective for Offline LibraryThing Book Catalog Browser

My latest hobby application (non-work, created on personal time) is now waiting for various approvals. Reached the exhaustion point, where it's more important to make a release than add new features - or even search for bugs.

Idea without execution is worthless.

There's online development diary "While Developing" started 22 August 2012, about 2 months ago. So what did I do and did I learn anything? At all? Would I do this again? Ever?

How to Create ZIP Archive with Password in Mac

Sending source codes over email, need to apply basic security measures. It's not a top secret project, software has already been released for another platform and the codes are basically just for a fully functional demo app.

No need to send a secret agent carrying encrypted SSD disk embedded inside his skull.

Icon dimensions (0x0) don't meet the the size requirements

Got a weird warning while validating my FontType 1.1 update at the weekend:

iPhone/iPod Touch: Icon dimensions (0x0) don't meet the the size requirements. The icon file must be 57x57 pixels, in .png format

Icon was just fine, so it's unclear what this means. However there are two theories: a) latest Apple iOS update messed up something or b) Apple iTunes Connect server has some issues.

Releasing Console On Device - Lessons Learned

Trying to make my third release, an application called "Console On Device". Learned some new things - and old ones, too.

First of all, application name was already reserved. I did extensive research and tough name planning, when starting to design this app - in February 2011. Surprisingly at November 2011 someone else had already released an app with "my" name!

Lesson learned: I could have created iTunes Connect app record right away to reserve the name. However in this case luck was on my side: I found a new better name!

Rise and Fall of FontType in App Store

It's three weeks since release of FontType, my first app under my own name (actually Jomnius). It's been ... interesting times. Didn't expect big sales, but hoped to get at least a few users. Nope.

Some comments and suggestions for update. None. Bug reports. Nada. Hello, anyone there?

Application Failed Codesign Verification

Submission to App Store wasn't as easy as I thought in previous blog. Not really surprised, but this problem was tough to solve. Not tough as in hard to fix, but as hard to figure out:

Application failed codesign verification.  The signature was invalid, or it was not signed with an Apple submission certificate. (-19011)

Application Validation Problems

Tried all weekend to make a release, these were the last issues to be solved:

warning: Icon specified in the Info.plist not found under the top level app wrapper: Icon-SMall@2x.png (-19007)

Prepare Username and Password for App Store Review

Our application Chatpoints (iPhone version available here) has free "guest" account as well as free registration. Choose a username and password and you can login immediately.

Sounds easy, right? Not easy enough, as App Store rejection email told:

What Did You Ship in 2010?

Inspired by Seth Godin's and Roadfire Software's posts, here's my take on "what did you ship in 2010":

Process 1018 Exceeded 500 Log Message Per Second Limit

Just found this new error code from iPhone console log:

Tue Jan 25 15:52:19 unknown App Name[1018] <Error>: *** process 1018 exceeded 500 log message per second limit  -  remaining messages this second discarded ***

Command /usr/bin/codesign failed with exit code 1

Select your project root in Xcode, command-i for Info, go to Configurations tab, delete old "Ad Hoc" configuration, duplicate Release and rename as "Ad Hoc". Rebuild and i installs and runs on connected device.

Problem might have been due space in name (even when it used to work earlier).