List – A Simple Database

User Contributions

Scott Crevier  has created a  few list databases to share – if you’re a NFL fan this might be something you’ll get a lot out of.

Check them out on his download page

If anyone else has databases they’d like to share, drop me an email and I’ll happily add some links.

9 comments November 26th, 2006

Spam..

Well, hopefully Akismet will help the spam situation – I just spent a good part of an hour deleting spam comments, not the best use of my time.  Allowing folks to post comments is one of the unexpected benefits to moving from a static website (the old one) to one that is based on the WordPress blog software – I really do appreciate the feedback.

Not a lot of time to spend poking at the List software lately, I’m still looking to find someone with a Treo or similar who has repeatable test scenarios that exhibit bad behaviour of List – please contact me if you do.

1 comment November 8th, 2006

Version 1.1.2

Recently I began poking around on the PalmSource developer site and came across their self certification program. This allows a developer to claim their application is “Palm Powered” – I figured that this couldn’t hurt. The self test process is pretty easy, and for the most part its very simple. They do ask that you run the “gremlins” tool against your application for 100,000 events for 10 unique seeds (1million events total). List passed this without any problem – I need to make sure I’ve properly completed the self test and then I can claim to be “Palm Powered”.

Of course I can’t leave well enough alone, so I started to run a lot of gremlin testing on List (many millions of events). This turned up 3 interesting bugs, all of them are fixed in version 1.1.2.

1. An error where the insert position of the quick find field could be zero in special situations – this would result in calling the OS with a -1 insert position which is a bad thing.
2. In the edit view it was possible to have room left for only a partial line of text, this caused problems when the table redraw happened.
3. Again in the edit view, the wrong font could be used to calculate the width of the category labels, this also caused table redraw problems.

All 3 of the problems likely only flagged on the debug ROM, but they were legitimate problems. I continue to try to isolate some sort of test case to track down the Treo issues – if anyone has a repeatable test case, please let me know.

Version 1.1.2 can be found on the download page.

5 comments September 12th, 2006