After a very long period of ignoring Jiggy I finally decided to give it a try, the only problem it was that i didn’t have any idea to experiment with and i had no useful need of an iPhone application, so after thinking at it for a couple f hours i finally found something. Anyway the idea itself its not important first I wanted to get started with some tutorials just to get the hang of it.

Let’s get to the actual story because I’m feeling that I’m giving too many details (like I usually do), the thing is that I find the browser based IDE too primitive, it’s missing a lot of features but the most important one that doesn’t exist is the “autocomplete” feature. So of-course that i wanted to develop with TextMate, my favorite editor. The editing part presents no problem you can mount the iPhone file system very easy, via SSH (using sshfs) or via AFP, the real problem comes in when you want to debug or test the application. Actual that’s the only powerful feature of the web-based editor is the test/debug feature … hmmmm, that got me started I was sure I could replicate that in TextMate, said and done. The question was how, the answer was … very easy.

So, on the iPhone I installed Lighttpd with CGI support and Perl. Luckily I’m a Perl programmer and I had no problem writing a set of services for interacting with the iPhone via http trough a browser … something to start and stop an specific application. Well actually I couldn’t resist so I implemented an entire system, sort of a mini framework. With all of this all I had to do was to interact with these services through TextMate, said and done, now that’s why I really like this editor, it’s so flexible and adding features to it it’s like taking a walk in the park (that’s if you are a developer and you are on the right PATH). So I wrote a set of TextMate commands to control the application execution on the phone. Basically it’s just a class that sends and receives data using the LWP library, at the moment I’m still experiencing with it a little bit but sometime next week I’m sure I’ll have TextMate bundle ready.

Yo all, this post is actually a confession. Here it goes: I use Safari only for porn and to be honest I find it to be pretty good from this “point of view”. And I confirm the fact that is the fastest existing browser.

Thank you Apple for making this browser.

Well basically all you needed is phone card, a guitar pick, a cross which is also a knife (?!?), a set of pliers and a hair pin…at least that’s how we (me & Robert) did it. And of course lots of balls to open the Mac Mini with those tools, luckily that it wasn’t my computer, I opened my with the proper tools.

Here’s a illustrated story of the actual process.

So finally it seems to be running ok with the new RAM.

Too tell you the truth I’m completely amazed by the Apple’s new device, the “iPod touch” and I can barely wait to get my hands on one of these babies. In comparison with the iPod classic it still has a hard drive deficiency but it’s got a cool thing, it supports Wi-Fi (I’ve been waiting a long thing for this) … oh and let’s not forget about the touch screen. But the thing that I’m really curious about is whether it supports the existing iPhone applications like the ‘mobileterminal’ application from Google. Well let’s hope I can get one in a couple of months.

Note: As from this moment it was “confirmed” that the iPod touch runs the same applications as the iPhone. Pretty neat … that means it can do lot’s of vodoo stuff.

Today I payed a working visit to my good friend Dacian and I was suprised to find a unique item. I can barely wait to boot it!