∞labs's hosting is having trouble and for some reason the Nightlies page is misbehaving. I'm working to have it back up ASAP.
Sorry for the mess!
EDIT: Nightlies now back up. :)
After a lot of sweat and blood, Coinpurse is approaching decency. I plan to release a nightly through ∞labs's new Nightlies page today or tomorrow.
This nightly will be for iPhone and iPod touch devices with iPhone OS 2.0 that have registered with me before this afternoon (Central European time). To register with me, you send an e-mail to me with your contact information. This will allow me to add you to the beta — I can't add people retroactively, so you'll have to wait until I release a new nightly before I can add you to a new "beta wave". Sorry. (I can and will make exceptions on this, but there must be very good reasons.)
∞labs now offers nightly-ish builds of its software. You can grab 'em (and read more about 'em) at the new Nightlies page.
Afloat's still missing a few finishing touches though. Ah, and if you want to help ∞labs localize one of its apps, this is the time to drop me a line!
iPhones all over the world, be wary! Coinpurse is coming! (I hope.)
EDIT: added a q&a section and moved the teaser on the official site.
Oh, time, you go away soooo fast. To quote one of everyone's favorite authors,
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
I'm in that kind of rut again: I have exams looming on the horizon and school projects waiting nothing more than to be filed away, never to be seen again.
So tired.
Which is why obviously I got into even more work with ∞labs. One wonders how long can a masochistic streak last before mental breakdown.
But I disgress.
One of the few things I've worked on that you can't see right now is MULTIVERSE, ∞labs' building rig and repository. Take a look:
Pretty neat, huh? (The backdrop is from this awesome DeviantArt pic.) And that's just its face. It's got pretty good guts, too — a project called "Everything" (that lives within the XcodeTools folder above) is able to go from raw code to ready-to-upload web site in seven minutes flat. Did I mention this whole thing needs a bit of optimizing? But I'm sure you'd already guessed that. Ahem. Anyway. One of the perks of the all-new MULTIVERSE is that I can upload interim builds of what I do on iDisk — you can even use the address of the link (that is, http://idisk.mac.com/millenomi-Public/Nightlies) in the Finder's Connect to Server pane to see it as a handy folder window. WebDAV luv all for ya.
Another thing I'm doing is the infamous iPhone project, which I'm probably going to talk about at length in another post. Just be known that you can fake having some kind of vision on a desktop app so long that you trust your gut and have half an idea of what you're doing. On the iPhone, you cannot fake that. There is no magical Afloat-ish kind-of-works good-enough magical middle ground; either it's great or it falls flat. Which is why I'm going to take a breather and draw it on these fabolously magical iPhone sheets to the tiniest, smallest detail, so that I can go look it up and see whether I'm going towards a good app or a jumbled mess.
That, and some kind of app tagline too. Use cases. Class diagrams? Oh, and a motivational poster. Who doesn't love motivational posters?
It's going to be a looooong summer.