June 2009

Javamancy Updated XIV

June 17, 2009 at 4:00 PM

in Operations

After the WordPress 2.8 release, there was a flurry of plugin and theme update releases as well, which in turn prompted our massive software overhaul here, for Javamancy the Weblog, Javamancy mini, and all of the other Web applications running at javamancy.com (that most of you don’t have to interact with, or even worry about!). [...]

Apple’s [AAPL] iPhone OS 3.0, shipping on the new iPhone 3G S devices, is also available today as software upgrades for the iPhone and iPod touch devices. A lot of people are unfortunately reporting a lot of errors when trying to fetch their upgrades via iTunes, getting that less-than-helpful error dialog. The (somewhat) good news [...]

As some of you already know, Microsoft’s [MSFT] Xbox LIVE online service will be experiencing a major scheduled outage for maintenance purposes at 3:01 AM on Tuesday, June 16, 2009. The bulletins floating around about it, like from Major Nelson’s site, mention that the outage may be as long as twenty-four (24) hours (!!!), so [...]

“What’s that funny RSS thing over there?” Several people have already commented about the appearance of a mystifying new RSS feed on the right-most sidebar here at Javamancy.

Earlier, WordPress 2.8 was released to the public, and it was announced by Matt over at its development blog. Although this is considered a major release, with plenty of new features, a lot of these new items are associated with the admin console and improving the blog customization and management. Of course, in addition to [...]

As you’ve probably guessed by now, the online Apple [AAPL] Store is now closed for the new product SKUs and site updates. This obviously has much to do with the WWDC keynote announcement from Apple…

WWDC 2009

June 8, 2009 at 8:00 AM

in Conferences

Today marks the official start of WWDC 2009, in San Francisco. Despite the release of Palm’s [PALM] Pre on a scant two days ago, the interest in Apple’s [AAPL] mobile product line remains exceptionally high. The key points revolve around the next generation of the iPhone, which some folks have been referring to as “iPhone [...]

In an uncharacteristically quiet move, Apple [AAPL] has posted the newly updated MacBook White as an available item in their online Apple Store a few days ago. The timing is, oddly enough, just barely early enough for developers to grab one hurriedly, just in time for this year’s WWDC. The new version of the MacBook [...]

Bing…?

June 3, 2009 at 10:00 AM

in Services

You may have seen the TV commercial for this thing by now. It starts out interestingly enough, with talk about how it is time to get liberated, with imagery of people doing different things, and what appears to be vacation spots that you may like to try and venues that you would like to see.

Introducing Javamancy mini…