Devin's Heaven

I’m the first to admit…

… that I have no idea what I’m doing sometimes. I awoke to this very sunny St. Patrick’s day to some bracket busters (c’mon Louisville!!!) and an inbox full of angry messages. Before I get ahead of myself, let me identify the root of what caused this situation. I really don’t like when apps crash. Its become rather stressful of late actually. So I set out to assemble something like foursquare where I can have testers easily email out crash reports that I can then symbolicate and figure out problems. Luckily, the resources are already out there. The crash reporter didn’t do exactly what I wanted to do, so I modified a file a little bit. Yadda yadda, and committed it as a new project to github. I didn’t fork it which would have been the proper thing to do.

Really, I just want to create a small project that I (and maybe others) could easily port into their projects to test with. I added instructions in the readme to do just such. For whatever reason, I mistakenly copied over my license from the open source project disregarding the established license. Turned out that was a bad move. I didn’t mean to take credit for anyone elses work. I quickly ratified the situation and apologized to Andreas. I admit I have to take the legal stuff more serious and become more informed on it. Today was fun though. You don’t get coined into a saying on the internet everyday. How bout that? Happy St. Pats.


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7 Responses

  1. Caleb Davenport

    Foursquare uses a library that I wrote: http://github.com/guicocoa/hoptoad-ios

  2. Devin

    Thanks for post a link the project. It looks cool. I might be mistaken, but doesn’t foursquare send crash reports out via email. Hoptoad looks like its a service onto itself. I think they did a one time. I just want to use it for test build not app store builds.

  3. GINO

    please i need a tutorial cork

  4. GINO

    please i need a tutorial corkplease i need a tutorial cork

  5. Sam Joseph

    I sympathize – I have been caught out like that being careless before … hope this hasn’t put you off open source :-) Really hoping to use your TapKu library …

  6. Ramon Fritsch

    What about testflightapp.com? I’ve using it’s sdk for error reporting and it looks amazing.

  7. Daron Jones

    Hey Devin,

    Nice site!! I think I’ve been here before whilst it was under a different look (that I dont remember), however this is pretty slick.

    I found my way (back) here because of an app im working on at the moment.

    Whist gazing at calendar app’s calendar view and thinking how to recreate something like it, I decided that I’d take a look around. I and found your Takpu implementation and Kal.

    I’d like try your version. The installation instructions with the screenshots and the notice about not dragging to avoid xcode 4 errors gives me more confidence that it will work without problems.

    However, I’m a little hesitant for a couple reasons:

    First, like you I haven’t spent much quality time with contracts. Legal jargon makes me a little jumpy; And second whilst reading the apache license included with your source, it stated that I can use your source under the conditions that I retained the copyright notice and the license.

    You didn’t however add a copyright notice so I’m not sure that the license is effective.

    Ironically, I came across this post you’d left whilst exploring ways back from github to contact you :)

    I’d like to ask you to add a copyright notice like you’ve done to this site to your source. Pleeeeease – it will help me quieten nerve…


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