I’m a note fanatic. Any time I have an idea or need to jot down an address, parking spot number, or anything else, I go straight for my phone and start typing. Since I consider my notes to be very important, I’ve always wanted to build an Internet-backed notes app so I wouldn’t have to worry if I dropped my phone in the Bay or messed it up so badly that I needed to restore from scratch.
I submitted it to the App Store today, so hopefully you’ll get to enjoy it soon. It’s a basic notes app that stays in sync with your Rackspace Email notes, but stays out of the way so you don’t need to think about the details of it talking to the service. Using this app feels the same on a subway or airplane with no Internet access as it does sitting at your desk at home next to your wireless router.
Rackspace Cloud 1.1 is now available in the App Store! Let me know if you like it, hate it, or have any suggestions.
Version 1.2 will focus more on Cloud Files, with an emphasis on better navigation and control, as well as creating files (such as images from the camera).
Posted
on September 28, 2009, 11:35 pm,
by Mike,
under Software.
jskeystore is a simple Javascript library I built to store data in a client-side database in Mobile Safari in a way that feels like memcached and hides the complexities and verbosity of using sqlite.
It’s very simple to use. Here is some example code:
var cache = new JSKeyStore();
var person = { first_name: 'Mike', last_name: 'Mayo' };
cache.set('person', person);
cache.get('person', function(obj) {
person = obj;
});
cache.destroy('person');
Behind the scenes, this creates a ‘person’ table with one row and one column that contains the JSON string of the person object.
The 1.1 update to the app is currently in beta (let me know if you’d like to join the beta!) and in the meantime, Héctor Paz has been kind enough to help out by translating the app to Spanish! So, if your iPhone’s default language is Español, you’ll be able to manage your Rackspace Cloud account in your native tongue
Here are a couple of screen shots from the first update to the iPhone app. I’m still working on it, so I’m not sure when the first update will be submitted to Apple.
The majority of the effort is going into improving support for Cloud Files.
The source code for the Rackspace Cloud iPhone app is now available on GitHub. If you have the iPhone SDK, feel free to download it if you want to track the progress of new features as they’re developed, or if you have a good idea and you’d like to pitch in!
Posted
on September 1, 2009, 11:54 pm,
by Mike,
under Rackspace.
I found a neat utility for uploading images to S3 in Snow Leopard, so I decided to modify it to work with Cloud Files. It’s built in Automator, so click here to get it. After you install it, you should be able to upload things to Cloud Files very easily.
If you change your API Key, go into Keychain Access and delete the cf_service item so you can reset it for the tool.
I have been hard at work on a new iPhone app for the Rackspace Cloud.
It helps you manage Cloud Servers and Cloud Files in your Rackspace Cloud account. When the API is released, I will submit this to the App Store and blog/tweet again when it’s released.
I could tell you all about the features, but pictures say more than words, so here is a comprehensive set of screen shots:
