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April Update

If you’ve been following this blog you can hardly have failed to notice that the promised update to Yummy 2.2.1 has yet to materialise. This is mostly outside my control but I do apologise if you have been affected by the Instapaper password bug that this update was designed to solve.

I submitted the update to Apple and about ten days later I got the email that every iPhone developer dreads. It begins with the phrase, “Your application … cannot be posted to the App Store at this time.” With the little information that they sent with the rejection, I think that Yummy is actually fine and that Instapaper was having difficulty at the time that they were reviewing the update. (You’ll note that the reason they rejected it is nothing to do with passwords.)

Still, I have taken this as an opportunity to improve Yummy. As a precaution I have made a minor change to the way that bookmarks are sent to Instapaper. Now rather than just say that there was an error (if there was one), I have added distinct error messages for each of the possible failure conditions. Obviously this doesn’t make it work any better but it does mean that you can tell the difference between it being Yummy’s fault (“Instapaper request error”) and when it’s a problem on the Instapaper side (“Instapaper server error”). The messages are deliberately similar as neither is the fault of users of Yummy.

I’ll be submitting this revised update in the next couple of days and, with luck, it will be available in the next week or two. Fingers crossed.

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Untrusted Server Certificate

If you’re trying to do anything with Yummy that requires it to talk to the Delicious.com servers you may find that you’re getting a weird error message: “untrusted server certificate.” Unfortunately there’s nothing I can do about this directly as the server in question is owned by Yahoo. The good news is that they’re on the case:

“We’re in the process of renewing this certificate. Thank you for the prompt alerts everybody.

We had our dates mixed up and thought it expired next week.”

Hopefully you should be back Delicious-ing before you know it.

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Yummy 2.2 Status

I’ve had a couple of reports about Yummy crashing when you try to enter an Instapaper password. The good news is that I have found the problem and am just testing a fix before submitting it to Apple.

The bad news is that this is likely to affect everyone who has a password set on their Instapaper account. A quick workaround is to temporarily remove the password from your Instapaper account.

My apologies to everyone who is affected by this bug.

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Out now: Yummy 2.2

It’s been a busy week around Yummy HQ hence the delay in posting this! But in case you haven’t already noticed, the new version of Yummy is now out and available on the iTunes Store. Key new features are:

  • Instapaper integration
  • New bookmark list view, with a preview of the URL and a lock icon to indicate private links
  • Animated bookmark name, so long links are visible without making the text un-readably small

I’m going to talk about these features a little more over the coming week. There is also the usual collection of minor bug fixes and enhancements, the ones most likely to affect you being:

  • Users with jail-broken handsets should now see all their tags correctly
  • The “notes” field in the bookmark screen now shows “placeholder” text explaining what it is
  • The “suggest tags” button is now more obvious
  • Fix for crash when you edit a bookmark and add multiple spaces between tags
  • Improvements to the synchronisation process with Delicious.com

I am also in the process of creating a new release of Yummy Browser that incorporates all the bug fixes. After that I am going to start to plan the next release of Yummy. If you want to influence that process please head over to my Uservoice page and cast your vote or add your suggestions.