I have been busy working on a few projects during the past few months. This is a quick summary post on what has been going on in my life recently.
To celebrate its 10,000th download, Movie Genie will be on sale until Monday, August 31st. Get it 50% off if you haven’t yet!
Updates for Movie Genie and Big Picture have been approved by Apple yesterday evening. While Big Picture only got a small bug fix release, Movie Genie 1.2.2 adds a number of new features that people have been waiting for:
I am very excited about these new abilities of the app. For more info, head on over to Hippo Foundry.
One issue that I have had with this blog for a while has been the lack of notifications when a new, legitimate comment is posted under one of my articles. I don’t get many comments, but when I do, I would like to be able to respond right away. I don’t like email notifications, so when Prowl was announced this week, I was excited about the possibility of sending push notifications to my iPhone whenever a new comment was posted. It turned out to be much easier than I anticipated, thanks to Jacob Burch’s Prowlpy module and Django’s signals framework.
Two days ago, Movie Genie’s main server, which provides all search results for the application, went down for about six hours, making it pretty much unusable to anyone. This was a dumb mistake on my part, since the issue was very easy to resolve, but I should have had the necessary precautions in place to warn me of the server downtime. I do have those running now, but it’s too late, and within those six hours, Movie Genie’s average rating went down from a full 5 stars to 2 or 3 in most countries.
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