Due to a server problem at our hosting provider medietemple all data was gone for all our websites and the WorldView database serving all the bookmark backups. We are very sorry about the problems this has caused, but luckily the great guys at mediatemple were able to fix the issue and all data is back again!

Developing software for the iPhone is different - there is no nearly endless memory pool waiting for you to be filled, there is 128MB RAM. Oh, not for the app, for everything! So on the iPhone that leaves about 20 to 30MB RAM for the currently running application. Sounds big? Well, my Mac OS X Mail application currently uses 64MB doing pretty nothing, Twitterific is idle with 32MB RAM ...

The Challenge

Nowadays most developers are used to have Garbage Collectors removing objects from memory which are not used any more automatically, at least on Java. Objective-C 2.0 introduced the very same recently on the Mac Desktop, but it is nowhere seen on the iPhone. And there is probably good reason for it. Maybe. But anyway, that leaves the developers to be very very disciplined on how to work with objects. But on the other side there is this requirement ...

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The last weeks have been very intense - we introduced a new design for our webpages, a new icon for WorldView and WorldView Live, released WorldView Live 1.1.0 and yesterday WorldView Live 1.2.0!

New website design

But lets tell the story a little bit longer. The website has been in a kinda semi finished state from the beginning, and ever since then we worked on a new design whenever we needed a break from coding on WorldView and clearing our head somewhat. And in the same silence we worked on it we released it 2 weeks ago. For the few people stopping by in here, we hope they appreciate it! There will be some more work being done on integrating the support forums for WorldView into our own website also within the next 2 weeks....

Just wanted to let everybody know, that I just finished coding of 2 new releases! The inital release of WorldView Live and the 2nd update for the free edition.

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The first update of WorldView has been released already more than a week ago and we did not update this website. Sad, isn't it. So, here we go, finally!

WorldView 1.1.0 introduced the new random feature as mentioned in our earlier blog post. It also includes lots of bug fixes and performance enhancements but sadly introduced a new bug. When sorting bookmarks, the items will jump up and down, this is quite annoying when using this feature. Well, that was the bad news, the good news is: I do have a bug fix ready! BUT I did not release it yet.... Why? Well, because I have another feature in store that I want to include into the update: Backup & Restore!...