We released Tunemio 1.0 for OS X last Thursday.
It blew through the Apple quality assurance in a day.
And blew to the top of the download charts, too. It reached #1 position in Finland, and entered the top ten in countries like United States and Japan.
It’s available in Apple’s Mac App Store worldwide, at no cost whatsoever.
Been a busy couple of weeks.
Relesed two private betas of Tunemio. Unless something fatal crops up, this baby is headed towards the App Store in a week or two.
Changed working schedule to accommodate more wake-up time with Elmo at home. This means working long evenings. And that, obviously, has meant a far slower update frequency here (glacial, I would say).
But here it finally is, the first released screenshot of Tunemio:
Today it’s been two years since Stephen Elop set the platforms on fire.
A lot has happened since.
And happily enough, I’m not wearing a MeeGo shirt today out of spite.
Time indeed heals wounds.
Git is the weapon of choice for Huimio’s source code management.
XCode provides a mostly decent interface to the local and remote repositories.
But it never hurts to know more, a lot more, about the system: and there a free book comes in handy.
I had completely missed this review of Fingerporilainen.
Pleasantly short, with improvement ideas and a positive grade. Perked up my saturday, that’s for sure.
The persistently static green boat in front of the Nokia House has been a source of multiple espionage-related jokes.
The wikipedia article puts such fears to rest, the story is far more innocent (or even more thoroughly disinformed).
Huimio, our brand new startup, opened its website, facebook group and twitter account for the public.
We’re still in stealth mode, there is no information yet about forthcoming products, but please stay tuned for more information.
On the Yudkowsky Ambition Scale Huimio ranks below 1, but that’s more an effect of the scale’s own ambition.
(In the slowly diminishing list of travelogues: a work trip).
Spent three days as a stand monkey in the Qt Developer Days last year.
Despite the slaying of Symbian and MeeGo, the interest on developing for the devices hadn’t dwindled.
Plenty of questions and answers, even more people looking for a SIM cutter, and as a bonus: really nifty doctors’ jackets.
Didn’t see much of München. The show was far outside the city limits, and spent only one short afternoon there (a couple of celebratory beers and a team dinner didn’t leave much time for rambling in the Bavarian capital).
As described in yesterday’s griefing, had issues logging into the publishing dashboard yesterday.
Turns out the account-locking issue was resolvable with persistence (meaning resetting the password multiple times finally did the trick).
Fingerporilainen has been steadily slowing down in downloads, and plateauing at slightly over 7k. The others (Viivi & Wagner and Wulff-Morgenthaler) are still held below thousand downloads, mainly on account of language/regional issues (meaning that I have no clue where and how they should be published to be visible even to me).
One of the things that didn’t go according to specs in the departure from Mother Nokia was my publishing account.
It’s now locked out, despite the promises that the account would remain valid after the departure.
So no updates on the download figures of published content yet. Last time I checked Fingerporilainen was somewhere below 7k downloads, the others far lower.
I managed to leave my departure from Nokia completely unannounced here.
The exit date coincided with the nine day service outage last month and hence was conveniently omitted here.
The 17 year ride is now over.
Did lots. And was prevented from doing lots more by variously credible reasons.
Travelled aplenty. Worst damages were a heatstroke in Kuala Lumpur and stolen trousers in New York.
Made scores of friends. And a few enemies. I intend to keep the former and forget about the latter.
As the lack of changes in my LinkedIn-profile indicate, the next steps are still in stealth mode. But slowly creeping into the light.
Stay tuned.
It’s been a month since the previous posting.
And plenty has happened.
Piglet (as shown on the right) got a name. Our son is called Elmo Gabriel Edvin Lavonius.
Resigned from Nokia on the fourth of july. My last day will be the fourth of august.
Been busy with the new company. But not that busy that we would actually have a product or even a website yet.
Been very lazy reporting travel bits lately (where “lately” covers approximately last fourteen months).
Went to San Francisco last spring for the second and last MeeGo Conference. Of which the less said, the better. Such a bitter occasion. And probably the one where I’ve felt most out of place. Did survive the presentation without boos or rotten vegetable-treatmemnt. Did not have much of an audience, either.
Did things that you’re supposed to do in the city by the bay:
Still one of my favorite cities, and I certainly hope to be back after a shorter interval than was between the two trips (six years and change).
(Yeah, I did publish a preamble of a day-by-day treatment, but that, unpredictably didn’t really go anywhere).
Yes, Valve Software the guys behind Steam, Half-Life and other digital entertainment goodness would indeed be an awesome company to work for.
April blogging spree started well, but ended up drying out mid-month.
No good reasons for it.
Work is effectively stressless (and there’s a grand total of two days left).
In lieu of illusionary work, wrote a few more toy applications for Harmattan (and they’ve been in the Nokia Store pipeline for a good while now).
The next move is in formative stages (and there will be more data once the concept is clarified).
Junior hasn’t been popped out yet (and there’s been no related complications).
Had a flu (but it was turbocharged and gone in three days).
Been just plain lazy.
And as a bonus: skipped Ullanlinnanmäki for the first time in more than a decade.
The program for the first Tizen conference is out.
The sessions are pretty much without surprises, it will be much more interesting to see what is launched or released
Fingerporilainen, the second step in my continuing campaign for world domination, is now available in Ovi Store for Harmattan devices (which is to say that it works on N9 and N950).
It is a very simple application that provides easy access to the six-strips-a-week content published by Helsingin Sanomat.
And yeah, before you ask, I’ve written similar apps for Viivi & Wagner and Wulff-Morgenthaler as well.
Vision Mobile has released their annual report on cross-platform tools.
Interesting, but disappointingly US-centric, evident in e.g. Qt getting way less attention than it deserves.
I published Platform Version a couple of weeks ago.
It is the first piece of application software I’ve published professionally.
It is an excessively simple piece of software. It does one thing, and one thing only: it displays the version of the Harmattan platform running on a Nokia N9 (or an N950).
The information is obviously available for users via the settings of the device, this application just provides as easy a way to view it as possible.
A preview of things to come in Harmattan PR1.2 is now available for the keyboard-equipped Harmattan device.
Previous years analyses also available: 2010, 2009.
N9 Developer blog, by the team who builds the SDK documentation and other relevant bits, for the application developers.
With today’s stealth-update, the Qt SDK is now entirely capable of device-less development: the simulator supports Harmattan’s Qt Quick components, lowering the barrier of entry even further.
Intel terminates MeeGo and incepts Tizen.
The documentation is very thin, but this appears to shift the main application development framework from Qt to HTML5.
And the move effectively means that N9 is effectively three things in one package: the world’s first, last and best MeeGo-phone.
Muphry’s Law, bit me today already.